A blog software. It's meant to be as minimal as possible (thin client), while still maintaining basic readability and styling.
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Crablog

Pure rust. Built with actix, diesel, tera, serde and sqlite3.

Build instructions using docker

  1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/leonardlorenz/crablog
cd crablog/site
  1. Install diesel and create a database
cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features "sqlite"
diesel setup --database-url ../content/db.sqlite3
diesel migration run --database-url ../content/db.sqlite3
  1. Set up your configuration file (see below)
  2. Build and run the docker container (Will compile from source and thus take a while)
docker-compose up -d

Configuration environment file

All configuration options are defined in .env, to be created in the same directory as this readme.

An example configuration:

USERNAME=yourusername
EMAIL=me@mydomain.tld
BIND_PORT=8000
SUBMIT_TOKEN=Submit!123 # token needed for submitting
GITHUB_ACCOUNT=usernam3
TWITTER_ACCOUNT=usernam3
MASTODON_ACCOUNT=usernam3@mastodon.social
REDDIT_ACCOUNT=usernam3
DISCORD_ACCOUNT=usernam3

# only needed when not using a docker container
ROOT_PATH=/path/to/template/directory/and/sqliteDB

Routes

Route Description
/ shows the last 5 posts
/id/ shows a single post by id
/all shows all posts
/submit set your submit token and create posts
/edit/ edit, delete or hide posts
/about information about this blog, social media accounts

API Routes

  • /api/blog/posts returns all posts as json