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BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API (martijn.sh)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog

Features

Linked to a user using Lemmy’s API, no authentication
Host content on any instance
Category filters: Set one or more community as the categories
Easy to adapt to your profile
One page constraint
Anchor navigation and permalinks
Responsive
Dark / Light mode
No cookies or tracking
Interactive “about me”
No backend: serving a single lightweight page that can be hosted anywhere, including GitHub
HTML, CSS and ES6 JavaScript. That's it.

TODO

Possible compatibility issues with older iOS devices. Let me know if you encounter an issue! I'll be cleaning up the code in the meantime.
The only class not written by me is the markdown-html translation layer for which I'm using snarkdown. It does so using regex queries. As to not completely re-invent the wheel I've forked it for this purpose, but I'd like to write one myself.

GitHub | ./Martijn.sh > Blog

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’m a little lost. You mention hosting content on any instance, or on GitHub. How does that work? And if your content is elsewhere what is Lemmy doing? Authx?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A lot of static site blog generators use markdown to create posts. Lemmy also uses markdown for its’ post formatting. From my understanding what OP has done is that he made this post on Lenmy and has created a front end that basically retrieves the given post from Lemmy and displays it with a more traditional blog style CSS as well as a few other pages that aren’t hosted on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

This is in it's simplest form a blog frontend for Lemmy indeed!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok so you’d literally be making a regular Lenny post to some particular community on some particular instance in that case, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Exactly, in this case the actual post is this one and posted it here as a x-post.

Edit: I own my instance, but you don't have to own one in order to deploy this blog frontend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The content seems to be hosted on https://0d.gs/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I sepperate the hosting of the content and the page itself. With a website you do need to still be serving a html page, because it has no backend the page can be served by GitHub for example.

In theory you don't have to touch the website anymore, so you use Lemmy as your markdown frontend.

A constraint like this ensures someone can host their BlogOnLemmy without paying for anything like hosting space or running the instance themselves.