windmill

simple file-based blog engine

in development, feel free to contribute but use at your own risk.

setup

• open a console
• create a directory for your blog
• cd inside that directory and type npm install windmill
• paste this: echo "require('windmill')" >> index.js
• now running node index.js will start your blog on default port (3000)
• finally, replicate this file structure:

public/
        css/
        js/
        img/
posts/

writing your first post

post's filename are pretty simple: YEARMONTHDAY_title.post, so for May 15th 2012 it would be 20130514.

every post has a header which contain the post info, it's a JSON header like this:

{
    "title" : "Example Post",
    "published" : "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00",
    "author" : "Tommy Bergeron <tomshreds@me.com>"
}

the header must be first 5 lines of every post.

the rest of the file is dedicated to your post's markdown formatted content.

config

you can create a config.json that looks like this:

{
    "title" : "Example Blog"
    "port" : 3000
}

themes

the default theme is not modifiable yet since this package is in very early development.