BLixir

TLDR: This is a project intended to help me learn Elixir. Use at your own peril.

BLixir will be a blogging platform written in various technologies. This project will run in production for a variety of blogs but will mainly be replacing p.hereford.io. The goal of this project is mainly to allow me to become more proficient at Elixir.

Learn more

• Official website: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: http://phoenixframework.org/docs/overview
• Docs: http://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-talk
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

Dependencies

To use this software, you need Postgres, Erlang, Elixir, and Phoenix installed on your system.
via Homebrew:
brew install elixir postgres

via mix: mix archive.install https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/releases/download/v1.1.1/phoenix_new-1.1.1.ez

Running locally

git clone git@github.com:phereford/b_lixir.git
mix deps.get
cd b_lixir
ecto.create
ecto.migrate
mix phoenix.server

Technologies

We will be utilizing various languages and frameworks:
Languages:

• Elixir (backend)
• Javascript (ES6)
• HTML5
• CSS

Frameworks:

• Phoenix (webserver)
• React
• Redux
• Neat
• Webpack

Browser Support

• IE9+
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please feel free to open Pull Requests. PRs that do not have tests will more than likely just be closed. I like tests and as this is a learning project feel the need to get better about testing and learn the ins and outs of ExUnit and our JS testing library of choice (undecided).

Code Style

Elixir
Javascript
CSS

TODO

• [] Code Style documents using credo and eslint
  • [] CSS
  • [] Elixir
  • [] Javascript
  • [] HTML
• [] Setup webpack and all the various React / npm modules needed.
• [] Responsive Grid (16 columns for desktop, 8 columns for tablet, 4 for mobile)
• [] Build out domain for a blog:
  • [] Consumption
    • [] Posts
    • [] Comments
    • [] Users
    • [] Tagging (Categorical representation of content)
    • [] Slugging
  • [] Admin Interface
    • [] Posts creation and management
    • [] Comment Moderation
    • [] User management
    • [] Websockets to determine which documents are being edited
    • [] Websockets for collaboration on in progress posts
    • [] PostMessage for live preview of document creation
    • [] Versioning of documents?
    • [] Workflows of document creation to publishing.
• [] Authentication (using Ueberauth)
  • [] Twitter
  • [] Facebook
  • [] Google+
• [] Authorization
  • [] Registrant -> Ability to comment
  • [] Admin -> Ability to create content and comment.