Introducing simple-blog

¶ Why?

Up to now, I have tried many times to create and maintain a personal, technical blog, but all my previous efforts were failed . The main reason for my failures is Blank Page Anxiety, maybe .

This time, I seriously want to overcome my fear and start writing a blog. The first question came to my mind was "What should I use for my blog? wordpress, ghost, or a static Jamstack solution?"

I have tried these solutions in the past (and failed). They all have up and down sides for my needs, for example:

• Wordpress and Ghost are too heavy and overkill for me
• Jamstack solutions’ publishing experience is not comfortable enough (edit source files, wait for the site to be rebuilt, etc)

Therefore, I decided to build a blogging engine for my own use case, and note down the development process here. At least I will have one blog post then .

¶ What?

Many ppl may think of something like this

But it’s much simpler, believe me!

This blog engine (called simple-blog) is very simple and lightweight. Normally each page would be under 10Kb in size . Furthermore, there’s no script at all (when browsing), so it can even be viewed on IE7 .

Below is network load of a sample blog post:

My ultimate goal for this blogging engine is minimalism

¶ How?

simple-blog is very simple . Here is the tech stack:

• Adonis 5: I love using typescript
• SQLite for simple & blazing fast database
• Water.css for minimalist CSS with auto dark mode
• markdown-it for rendering contents
• Docker & Docker Compose for deployment

¶ Source code

The source code of this project can be found on github repository.

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