✨Fully open-source and customizable blog written in vuejs and nodejs
This project is open-source blog written using vuejs (frontend) and nodejs (backend). The blog has its own dashboard and sqlite3 database.
In order to run the project we will first need to copy it onto your system. do that with the command git clone https://github.com/Bialu-Software/openpress.git (assuming that you have git installed).
To do anything with the project you will need to install Node.js from this website or you can use some sort of node version manager. To check if you have installed Node.js, run this command:
node -v
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Bialu-Software/openpress.git
Now you need to go to the project directory and run this command so you have all of the needed packages.
npm install
Before we can run the web application, we might want to init the database for the backend using:
npm run syncdb
After is everything installed we can run it:
npm run start
Now if you go to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser, you should see something like this:
This project is not intended for commercial use but nothing is stopping you :)
To fully deploy your blog we suggest using a linux system. And to build and minify the project use:
npm run build
You can customize your blog in a variety of ways. The easiest way is to change change the css in ./src/assets/styles/main.scss. By changing the things in the file you will change the appearance of your blog.
- Changing the
./backend/routes.jsand adding some new routes you may want. This is the basic template for a route:
router.get('/path-to-your-route', async (req, res) => {
if (true) {
res.send("Route is working")
} else {
return res.status(404).send("Page not found");
}
})- Adding your own env variable. Just edit or create the
.envfile and add your secret key. (this change may cause logout of all users). See more parameters in.env.example
SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key
If you want to update the database schema, you will afterwards need to run this command
npm run syncdb
