piwwi

A JSON-based blogposts and Mongod-based comments, developed to run on Node.js Express (I use it on OpenShift).

Getting started

Include it in your server.js or whatsoever entry point of your app:

var piwwi   = require('piwwi');

Then connect to your Mongod instance with a string like:

piwwi.mongod('mongodb://user:pass@127.0.0.1/Comments');

Or skip the connection if mongod not available:

piwwi.mongod('', 'no');

Define a sample notes.json like the following and put into the Express root:

[
  { "current" : "0002" },
  { "why-node-js" : 
    {
      "jade": "0001",
      "url": "why-node-js",
      "title": "Who uses Node.js and why",
      "subtitle": "Revolutioning your perception of www",
      "date": "2013-06-19",
      "keys": "node, javascript, www",
      "published": "yes"
    }
  },
  { "" : 
    {
      "jade": "",
      "url": "",
      "title": "",
      "subtitle": "",
      "date": "4",
      "keys": "",
      "published": ""
    }
  }
]

Add the blog functions to your routes, for instance the posts list:

app.get('/blog', function(req, res) {
    piwwi.blogIndex(res);
}

And the post:

app.get('/blog/:title', function(req, res) {
    piwwi.blogPost(res, req.params.title.toString());
});

The posts list is an example view you can find in views/blog_index_example.jade, while each post is a jade named as xxxx.jade (example in views/blog_post_example.jade). Post views are organized by default in the views/notes/ application directory.

You can configure in the header of lib/piwwi.js:

The file containing the posts list:

var jsonfile      = 'blog.json';

Your blog posts locations (so it's /views/blog/ in the example):

var viewdir       = 'blog';
var relativeviews = '../../../views';

The mongodb connection string:

var mongoconf      = 'mongodb://127.0.0.1/Comments';

TODO

• RSS
• Flash messages
• Play with Socket.IO