Minimalist Blogs ✨

Overview 📝

Minimalist Blogs is a sleek and simple blogging platform designed to provide essential blogging features with a clean interface. Users can create, publish, and manage their blogs effortlessly. Additional functionalities are in development to enhance user experience, including:

• 🖋️ Markdown-based editor
• 📊 Portfolios/Dashboards for each user
• 📚 Ability to create collections
• 📝 Save multiple drafts
• 🖼️ Adding media and generating table of contents for blogs

Backend 🛠️

This project utilizes a serverless architecture, leveraging Cloudflare Workers for hosting. The backend stack is composed of the following technologies:

Tech Stack

• ⚡ Hono as the web framework
• 🗃️ Prisma as the ORM, with Prisma Accelerate for connection pooling
• 🐘 PostgreSQL for the database, provided by Avien
• ☁️ Cloudflare Workers for serverless hosting

Frontend 💻

The frontend is designed to be minimalist and responsive, providing a seamless user experience. The stack includes:

Tech Stack

• ⚛️ React as the frontend framework
• 🌐 React Router Dom for routing
• 📡 Axios for data fetching and posting
• 🎨 Tailwind CSS for styling

Getting Started 🚀

To get started with Minimalist Blogs, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/minimalist-blogs.git
   cd minimalist-blogs
   

2. Install dependencies for the backend:

   cd backend
   npm install
   

3. Install dependencies for the frontend:

   cd frontend
   npm install
   

4. Set up environment variables:

   Create a .env file in both backend and frontend directories and configure the necessary environment variables as specified in the .env.example files.

5. Run the backend server:

   cd backend
   npm run dev
   

6. Run the frontend development server:

   cd frontend
   npm run dev
   

7. You will also need to change the deployed backend URLs for fetching and posting data to your backend's localhost url to run it locally.

    https://backend.ducheharsh.workers.dev/api/v1/*      --replace this
    https://localhost:(`whatever your backend post is`)   -- to this
   

Contributing 🤝

We welcome contributions to enhance the functionalities of Minimalist Blogs. To contribute, please follow these guidelines:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch).
3. Make your changes and commit them (git commit -m 'Add some feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature-branch).
5. Open a pull request.

License 📄

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

We appreciate your interest in Minimalist Blogs. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to open an issue or contact the maintainers. Happy blogging! ✍️😊