Fireblog

The world is full of words. Let's add more. Blogging is essential. Having a personal blog is required. Here is one. Fireblog is back, and it's fully up to date! It now uses elm 0.19 and Server-Side Rendering!

Context

As a complement of Medium (where I'm posting everything in English), I wanted to get a fully working blog in French. Built with elm and Firebase, all of this started as an experimentation to get a valid SPA working with elm and Firebase. With time going through, I thought it would be so cool to let everyone enjoy this, and take inspiration if they want, because it's not always easy to find an example of an SPA in elm in « production ».
The goal is to provide an easy-way to deploy the application on Firebase, with little or no effort at all, just like WordPress do -- but easier, and only focused on blogging, not all noise around. The focus is put on accessibility, rich web content, single-page application and quality blogging.

Installation

Creates an account on Firebase, and creates a new project. You will be able to access the integration with JavaScript. Just get something like this:

const config = {
  apiKey: 'api-key',
  authDomain: 'project-url',
  databaseURL: 'database-url',
  projectId: 'project-name',
  storageBucket: 'storage-bucket-url',
  messagingSenderId: 'one-random-number'
}

When you found it, paste it on config.js, like this.

// src/config.js
import firebase from 'firebase/app'

const config = {
  apiKey: 'api-key',
  authDomain: 'project-url',
  databaseURL: 'database-url',
  projectId: 'project-name',
  storageBucket: 'storage-bucket-url',
  messagingSenderId: 'one-random-number'
}

firebase.initializeApp(config)

Don't be afraid to share it: it will be on all pages of your site. If someone wants it, can have it really easily.
Enable email authentication, and create your account to authenticate. Finally add the uid of the user to the firebase rules of the database, and you're good to go.

Configuration is done!

Deployment

You'll need yarn. Please, do not use npm. You can easily install it with brew on macOS, or npm install -g yarn.

You'll need Firebase CLI. It's on npm. Install it with npm install -g firebase-tools or yarn global add firebase-tools. Next, use firebase login and follow the steps, to get the firebase command working.

# First login to Firebase.
firebase login
# Install the project, build it and deploy it!
yarn  
yarn build  
firebase deploy

Customization

All styling is done in SCSS and resides mostly in neptune. Feel free to modify anything to get your favorite styling.
The elm code producing HTML resides only in View. It's really easy to change the content of the views as you can avoid modifying types and logic.

I like this project, can I use it and contribute?