A Diary Generator

Reads diaries written in markdown from a git submodule, and generates a static site for it. (Demo)

Requires Node 4.x and above.

About the repos

The markdown files for the diaries can be kept under another repo named YYYY/MM/DDDD.md(Example).

Build

1. Run npm install to install the dependencies
2. Configure config.js
3. git checkout -b yourname for your own branch(so you can keep the master branch intact in case you want to receive updates)
4. git rm diary to remove the old submodule for diaries
5. git submodule add git://new/submodule.git diary to add your own submodule
6. Commit the changes (to your own branch) if you want.
7. Run gulp build to generate the static site (placed under dist).
8. Run gulp server and visit http://localhost:8000/diary if you want to see it hosted locally(make sure the port 8000 is not taken).

You can receive updates by pulling updates into your master branch, and check them out to your own branch.

Deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Set up the SSH git remote origin for the project.
2. After building the web page, run gulp deploy.
3. Everything under dist will be pushed to the remote repo's gh-pages branch.

Develop

1. Make sure port 35729(for livereload) and 8000(for the local server) are available.
2. Run gulp, then visit http://localhost:8000/diary.
3. Start development!
4. When you are done, you can checkout the changes from your branch to the master branch, and send in a pull request if you want.

TODO

• Write a calendar to replace pikaday
• Add "previous" and "next" button to the diary pages

LICENSE

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2015 Joyee Cheung

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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