Before I write yet another blogging engine.....

[Dave Horton]

..is there a relatively full-featured one around -- node/express/mongodb - based -- that I should be looking at?  I've spent about a half day searching around and looking at different projects, but most of them seem like semi-discarded once-upon a time learning projects.  I'm looking for something with mongo-based persistence, support for comments, user authentication, CRUD operations on posts,  support for markdown authoring (other choices would be nice), and some decent theming.  I'm kind of assuming that there would be a project out there that does this, but haven't found it.  Before charging off and writing from scratch (which wouldn't be that hard, and maybe that's the point - everyone is just off solving their own problem in their own way), I thought I would ask...

[greelgorke]

Ghost is actually open source https://ghost.org/ and has a growing theme marketplace http://marketplace.ghost.org/

[Matt]

You're looking for Ghost. Though in Ghost comments are (currently) left to external services like Discus.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Dave Horton <da...@dchorton.com> wrote:

..is there a relatively full-featured one around -- node/express/mongodb - based -- that I should be looking at?  I've spent about a half day searching around and looking at different projects, but most of them seem like semi-discarded once-upon a time learning projects.  I'm looking for something with mongo-based persistence, support for comments, user authentication, CRUD operations on posts,  support for markdown authoring (other choices would be nice), and some decent theming.  I'm kind of assuming that there would be a project out there that does this, but haven't found it.  Before charging off and writing from scratch (which wouldn't be that hard, and maybe that's the point - everyone is just off solving their own problem in their own way), I thought I would ask...

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[Jarrod Overson]

Ghost is lacking in features. It's a solid, actively maintained product that does the job it says it does, but it's not large enough that it's sucked all the air out of the room for other options.

There's an opportunity for another blogging solution if there's motivation for it.

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[Prajwal Manjunath]

True. Ghost looks nice, but it's development is too slow and monolithic. They only recently managed to add support for tag links, something that you wouldn't expect a blogging engine to launch without (and simultaneously broke several blogs with the update, including mine).

[Matt]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Jarrod Overson <jsov...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ghost is lacking in features. It's a solid, actively maintained product that does the job it says it does, but it's not large enough that it's sucked all the air out of the room for other options.

There's an opportunity for another blogging solution if there's motivation for it.

Yeah I don't disagree. But that's a lot of work. There's a reason WordPress took years and years to get to the state it is currently in.

[Dave Horton]

Thanks!  I will give ghost a try, it does look like what I need

[Matt]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Prajwal Manjunath <prajw...@gmail.com> wrote:

True. Ghost looks nice, but it's development is too slow and monolithic. They only recently managed to add support for tag links, something that you wouldn't expect a blogging engine to launch without (and simultaneously broke several blogs with the update, including mine).

Time to fork it then. That's what open source is all about.

[Michael Macherey]

Hey Dave, keystone.js hase some Blogging features. Watch the Demo App  at http://keystonejs.com/examples/

Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2014 20:29:09 UTC+2 schrieb Dave Horton: