Create yet another publishing tool - Jan 2015

A January 2015 project.
Simple blog or note-taking web app.
Uses:

• Nginx for the web server
• Node.js for the "client" code on the server
• API-based
  • possibly create the initial API code in Perl
  • then create the API code in Node.js
• use the Express framework for Node.js
• use Handlebars for templating
• use CouchDB for the data store
• use Redis as the caching server

This will be a simpler app than Grebe.

• account creation and the login procedure will not use a password
• use only Markdown as the formatting markup (node.js showdown)
• two types of posts: articles and notes
• notes will function like in the Grebe app with no char limits
  • if no title, then a note. with title, then article.
• the home page will look like the stream view when logged into the Junco app with notes and articles displayed
• only the first 200 to 300 chars for notes and articles will be displayed in the stream view
• little text area box displayed at the top of the stream view when logged in, which can be used for either notes or articles
• click post link for a larger textarea box that can also used for both notes and articles
• no fancy blog-like display options for articles like in Junco with the blog_username tag and like with the default view for Grebe
• simplify CSS
  • no homepage banner image
  • borrow header and nav ideas from Grebe
• ability to display articles/notes/entire stream for a user??
• it will be multi-user
• do not put the delete/undelete functions on the stream display for logged-in users
  • move delete/undelete to the article page
• will have a search function
• Do NOT include the following features:
  • related articles
  • view article source
  • hashtags auto-linked and counts stored in separate view

#scaup - #blogging - #todo