Lite Blog - A Laravel Blog Generator

Lite Blog a minimal full (frontend & backend) blog generator built with tailwindcss and wink a laravel publishing platform by Mohamed Said. The frontend is a replicate of jigsaw blog template.

Requirement

Lite Blog make use of Laravel 6, so make sure you have meet Laravel 6 server requirements.

Installation

You can install the Lite Blog via composer create-project

composer create-project --prefer-dist  stephenjude/lite-blog myblog

Create your database and update your .env file.

Setup your blog.

cd myblog

php artisan setup:blog

Start the local development server

php artisan serve

Configs

Site Config

Update site details in the config/services.php file.

'meta' => [
    'site_name' => 'My Perosnal Blog',
    'mantra' => 'Web & Mobile Developer',      
],

Unsplash Integration

To use unsplash images add this to your .env file

UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Usage

Routes	Url
Homepage	myblog.test
List Articles	myblog.test/articles
View Article	myblog.test/articles/{slug}
Editor (Publishing Platform)	myblog.test/editor
Refresh Indexed Articles	myblog.test/fresh

This /fresh route should be called after publishing/updating a post. I am still working on automating it.

Compiling assets (Optional)

npm install

npm run dev

Screenshots

About

Newsletter

Publishing Platform (Wink)

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email stephen@deacons.online instead of using the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.