Blogsiple - simple blog system example

Blogsiple is the official Node.js testbed for Create CMS UI integration. It has been built using the NodeXT framework.

Installation with NPM

$ npm install -g blogsiple

Check out this repository from GitHub:

$ git://github.com/bergie/blogsiple.git

Then install dependencies:

$ cd blogsiple
$ npm install

You also need a JugglingDB database provider. By default we use Redis, which is installed via dependencies.

With globally-installed Blogsiple with a default configuration:

$ blogsiple

With locally-installed Blogsiple:

$ ./bin/blogsiple configuration/redis_8001.json

If you want to use a different database or a server setup, just create your own NodeXT configuration file for Blogsiple.

You can populate the Blogsiple database with blog posts from any RSS feed. Do this with:

$ ./bin/blogsiple_import_rss configuration/redis_8001.json http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/rss.xml

You'll need a working Heroku account and the Heroku toolbelt installed, and a local Git checkout of Blogsiple.

Create an app:

$ heroku apps:create -s cedar my-blog-name

Add the Postgres database (the free option in this example):

$ heroku addons:add shared-database

Deploy on Heroku:

$ git push heroku master

Create the database tables:

$ heroku run ./node_modules/.bin/nodext_storage_create configuration/heroku.json

Import existing blog entries (optional), replacing the URL below with your own feed:

$ heroku run ./bin/blogsiple_import_rss configuration/heroku.json http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/rss.xml

For now Blogsiple is intended to serve only as an example and CreateJS development testbed. But even so, contributions are welcome.

Blogsiple code is available under the MIT license.