Meg - a minimalistic blog/personal site

Meg [ the pronoun 'me' in norwegian : /mæɪ̯/], is a lightweight, minimalistic Blog/Personal site, with the sole goal to give its users an easy to run, fast, secure blog.

This blog is built using:

Webapp Framework : Express
ORM : Sequelize
View engine : EJS
Content (WYSIWYG) Editor : Pell

Clone, Setup and Run:

Clone the project to a local repo:

git clone https://github.com/osminosm/meg.git
cd ./meg

Install dependencies

// using npm
$ npm install
// using yarn
yarn

Additional Database drivers, as sequelize needs these to function depending on what db you're using

// using npm
$ npm install --save pg pg-hstore // Postgres
$ npm install --save mysql2  // MySql
$ npm install --save sqlite3 // Sqlite
$ npm install --save tedious // MSSQL

// using yarn
$ yarn add pg pg-hstore // Postgres
$ yarn add mysql2  // MySql
$ yarn add sqlite3 // Sqlite
$ yarn add tedious // MSSQL

Run for development:

// using npm
$ npm start
// using yarn
yarn start

Run for production:

$ node index.js --configFile /path/to/config.json

Config file

This is how a config file should look like (more or less), if an option is not specified it will default to its value on utils/config-default.json

{
  "host":"localhost",
  "port":"3000",
  
  "db": {
    "dbname": "blog",
    "username": "username",
    "password": "",
    "options": {
      "dialect": "sqlite",
      "storage": "./database.sqlite"
    }
  },
  "bcryptSaltWorkFactor": 10,
  "jwtSecret": "<secret>",
  "jwtUserExpiresIn": 86400,
  "tokenCookieName": "access_token"
}

Keywords

blog minimalistic node express sequelize ejs jwt