This is a project I did to recreate my word press blog using plane node js. If I were to
do this again, I would use PHP. NodeJS is great, however, it was a pain to deal
with all the asynchronous calls when trying to create a web page in a linear fashion.
If you want to run this project, it requires Mysql, npm, and node to be installed. For
deployment I used a [Nginx](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04)
This is a personal blog where I write about everything from projects to tutorials on sophisticated machine learning algorithms.
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This project is a custom express application that uses pandoc to render latex/markdown files as HTML pages.
This site has its very own admin portal to manage posts and downloads.
## Dependencies
- mysql
- node + npm
- pandoc
- nxinx (for https)
## Running
Installing the node-dependencies is as easy as running the npn install command:
```
npm install
```
All configurations are currentl found in the config.json file.
In this file you specify things like port, sql connection, etc.
There is a provided bash script that will run the application
```
chmod +x run.sh
./run.sh
```
For deployment I used a [Nginx](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04)
proxy to expose the node application running on port 8000 to port 80. This proxy is necessary
because you can't run a node application as port 80 unless you are root, which would be a
security vulnerability.
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## Node Dependencies
```bash
npm install express
npm install express-session
npm install mysql
npm install sanitizer
npm install promise
npm install highlight
npm install crypto
npm install remarkable
npm install markdown
npm install highlight.js
npm install compression
npm install memory-cache --save
npm install request
npm install nodemailer
npm install nodemailer-smtp-transport
npm install whiskers
npm install node-pandoc
- express
- express-session
- mysql
- sanitizer
- promise
- highlight
- crypto
- remarkable
- markdown
- highlight.js
- compression
- memory-cache --save
- request
- nodemailer
- nodemailer-smtp-transport
- whiskers
- node-pandoc
```
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## Projects Sites
As I develop more projects I would like an easy way to add and host them on my website without having to create another sub-domain and generate more ssl certs.
I simply want the project site to be accessible under https://jrtechs.net/project_name.
