blog

A simple blog written in Go and based on Gorilla mux and blackfriday.

Rationale

There are plenty of blog frameworks out there, both static and dynamic, which offer a lot of great functionality and robustness out of the box. This is not necessarily one of those frameworks.

This package is for those who want a simple blog to drop into an existing Go-based website. Adding a page is as simple as writting a Golang HTML template, dropping semantically-named blog posts written in markdown into a directory, and adding a new route to your mux.

Usage

Installation:

$ go get github.com/scott-linder/blog

In your template:

{{range $post := .Posts}}
<article>
<a href="{{$post.Permalink}}><h1>{{$post.Name}}</h1></a>
{{$post.Body}}
</article>
{{else}}
<p>No posts.</p>
{{end}}

In your source:

r := mux.NewRouter()
sb := r.PathPrefix("/blog").Subrouter()
blog.NewBlog("name", sb, "path/to/template.tpl", "path/to/posts/", pageSize)