Paperpress

This library will allow you to have a blog or static pages in markdown on top of any application with express. For feature request, contact @siedrix on twitter or github.

Install

npm install paperpress

Usage

Create a paperpress paperpress intance

var blog = new Paperpress({
    directory : 'static',
    basePath  : '/blog'
});

Use directory to spacify where are your paperpress files and basePath to specify the path on your aplication where you want you paperpress to be deliver.

Then just add paperpress to your express server with

blog.attach(server);

For more information check the example folder

Directory structure

Then create a directory for you paperpress files. It needs the following directories

• /articles this folder will contain all the blog posts of the aplication.
• /pages this folder will contain all the pages of the aplication.
• /layout this containt the templates for the article and multiple article pages.
• /public this containes all assets particular to paperpress, like css, images, fonts and js.

Article structure

• info.json This file needs to have title, description and date. Path is optional, will use a slugify version of the title if its not present.
• content.md This is the main content of the article, it should be written in mark up.

Pages structure

• info.json This file needs to have title. Path is optional, will use a slugify version of the title if its not present.
• content.md This is the main content of the article, it should be written in mark up.

Todos

• Pagination
• Static assets per post
• Comments
• Good looking design on example
• Wordpress to Paperpress script
• Scafolding

Nice to haves

• Paperpress documentation site build on paperpress.
• Pages with no info.json should use directory name as title.

Bugs

• Render links correctly