This is a simple blog service that just works. There are great alternatives with a lot more functionality but sometimes, all you need is a simple service that serves Markdown files in the style of a blog.
To run the application using Docker:
sudo docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v $(pwd)/content:/app/content -e NODE_ENV=production -e HOST=0.0.0.0 ghcr.io/itschotsch/blog:latestTo run the application using Docker Compose:
sudo docker compose up -dTo run the application using Docker:
sudo docker build -t blog .
sudo docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v $(pwd)/content:/app/content -e NODE_ENV=production -e HOST=0.0.0.0 blogTo run the application using PNPM:
pnpm build && pnpm previewTo create a post, create a Markdown file in content/posts.
Optionally, include a frontmatter for metadata in YAML syntax.
For example, content/posts/HelloWorld.md may look as follows:
---
title: Hello, World!
datetime: 2025-01-01 00:01
images:
- src: example.png
alt: Example image
title: Example image
---
*Hello*, **World**!Images referenced with relative paths such as example.png in the example above should be placed in content/media.
In content/configuration.yaml, you can make some customisations:
title: The title of your blog, which is displayed at the very top of the page as well as on the tab.language: The language code of your blog, which is used in the<html lang="%lang%">tag and affects the text hyphenation.stylesheets: A list of stylesheets to be used. These can be absolute URLs for CDNs or relative URLs for CSS files placed incontent/style.
This application is written in SvelteKit / Svelte 5.
Install the dependencies with pnpm install and start a development server:
pnpm devTo build a production version of the app:
pnpm buildYou can preview the production build with pnpm preview.