Personal blog written from scratch using Node.js, Bootstrap, and MySQL. https://jrtechs.net
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README.md

NodeJSBlog

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 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.

MYSQL Information

create database jrtechs_blog;

use jrtechs_blog;

create table users(
user_id mediumint unsigned not null AUTO_INCREMENT,
user_name varchar(60) not null,
password char(64) not null,
salt char(64) not null,
primary key(user_id)
);

create table categories(
category_id mediumint unsigned not null AUTO_INCREMENT,
name varchar(60) not null,
url varchar(60) not null,
primary key(category_id)
);

create table posts(
post_id mediumint unsigned not null AUTO_INCREMENT,
category_id mediumint unsigned not null,
picture_url varchar(100) not null,
published datetime not null,
name varchar(100) not null,
url varchar(100) not null,
primary key(post_id)
);


create table downloads(
download_id mediumint unsigned not null AUTO_INCREMENT,
file varchar(40) not null,
name varchar(40) not null,
download_count mediumint not null,
primary key(download_id)
);

create table popular_posts(
popular_post_id mediumint unsigned not null AUTO_INCREMENT,
post_id mediumint unsigned not null,
primary key(popular_post_id)
);

grant all on jrtechs_blog.* to blog_user@localhost identified by "password";

Node Dependencies

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 memory-cache --save

Color scheme

Adobe Color Wheel

Blue:

  • Primary: #3B536B
  • Secondary: #00BEB2

Purple:

  • Primary: #513E7D
  • Secondary: #D2C0FF

Stuff for automated image compression

apt-get install jpegoptim
jpegoptim --size=500k *.jpg
apt-get install optipng
optipng *.png