CONFIG.md

CONFIG.md

@@ -1,27 +1,41 @@
-export const seperator = "<hr/>"
-export const site_name = "My Blog"
-export const site_url = "https://example.com"
-export const port = 8080
-export const allow_signup = true
-export const site_description = "Read my blogs!"
-export const timeline_length = 20
-export const enable_hitcount = true // Can slow down page loading a bit
-export const charset = "UTF-8" // Don't change unless you know why
+# Configuration Documentation
+## Introduction
+The configuration file is stored in a file called config.json, for an example, copy example-config.json to config.json (`cp example-config.json config.json`) and modify from there.<br/>
+Currently all values in example-config.json are required, however I plan to add support for default values in the case of no value being set.
+
+## Technical configuration
+* "site_url": "https://example.com"<br/>
+    This value defines the url of your site, this used for the RSS feed to link back to post.
+* "port": 8080<br/>
+    This value defines the port that you run the blog on. Don't change this value if you don't know what that means.
+* "allow_signup": true<br/>
+    Boolean that defines weather new people should be allowed to signup.
+* "timeline_length": 20<br/>
+    How many posts will be shown on the timeline (home page).
+* "enable_hitcount": true<br/>
+    Enabling the hitcount (a number that represents the amount of front page loads (stored in hitcount.txt)) can slightly slow down loading of the front page.
+* "charset": "UTF-8"<br/>
+    This is the value in the <meta charset=""> tag in the html of all pages, you should not change this unless you know why.
+
+## Basic Customisation
+seperator = "<hr/>"
+site_name = "My Blog"
+site_description = "Read my blogs!"
 
 // Anything in this directory will be in the webroot, so put favicon.ico and anything else here.
-export const root_path = "/path/to/root/of/website"
+root_path = "/path/to/root/of/website"
 
 // Default username if no username is inputted in comment submission
-export const default_username = "Anon"
+default_username = "Anon"
 
 // RSS feeds
-export const rss = true
-export const rss_path = "/rss"
+rss = true
+rss_path = "/rss"
 
 // Dates
 // https://date-fns.org/v4.1.0/docs/format
-export const date_format = "yyyy-MM-dd"
-export const time_zone = "+0000"
+date_format = "yyyy-MM-dd"
+time_zone = "+0000"
 
 //// Format  /////
 // The syntax for this is pretty simple
@@ -50,7 +64,7 @@ export const time_zone = "+0000"
 // %Y - Site Name as defined by site_name
 // %Z - Attribution (to me) and source code link and license
 
-export const timeline_header = `<h1>%Y</h1>
+timeline_header = `<h1>%Y</h1>
 <h2>%W</h2>
 <a href="%P">Create Post</a><br/>
 <a href="%R">RSS Feed</a><br/>
@@ -58,19 +72,19 @@ export const timeline_header = `<h1>%Y</h1>
 <a href="%D">Delete Account</a><br/>
 Hit count: %H
 %S`
-export const user_page_header = `<h1>%F's posts:</h1>
+user_page_header = `<h1>%F's posts:</h1>
 %I
 %S`
-export const tag_page_header = `<h1>Posts tagged: %G</h1>%S`
+tag_page_header = `<h1>Posts tagged: %G</h1>%S`
 // ---------------------------------------------
-export const user_post_format = `<h2>%T</h2>
+user_post_format = `<h2>%T</h2>
 <p>%C</p>
 <i>%B</i><br/>
 <a href="%L">Permalink</a><br/>
 %X
 %M
 %S`
-export const post_page_format = `<h1>%T</h1>
+post_page_format = `<h1>%T</h1>
 <p>%C</p>
 <i>%B</i><br/>
 <i>By <a href="%U">%N</a></i><br/>
@@ -81,36 +95,36 @@ export const post_page_format = `<h1>%T</h1>
 %X
 %M
 %S`
-export const timeline_post_format = `<h3>%T</h3>
+timeline_post_format = `<h3>%T</h3>
 <p>%C</p>
 <a href="%L">Permalink</a><br/>
 <i>By <a href="%U">%N</a></i>
 %X
 %M
 %S`
-export const tag_post_format = `<h3>%T</h3>
+tag_post_format = `<h3>%T</h3>
 <p>%C</p>
 <i>%B</i><br/>
 <a href="%L">Permalink</a><br/>
 <i>By <a href="%U">%N</a></i>
 %S`
 // -------------------------------------
-export const site_wide_footer = `Site is ran by DeaDvey<br/>
+site_wide_footer = `Site is ran by DeaDvey<br/>
 %Z`
 
 // Custom Strings
-export const signup_agreement = "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content"
-export const signups_unavailable = "Sorry, this server does not allow signups"
-export const user_exists = "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username"
-export const user_doesnt_exist = "Sorry, this user does not exist"
-export const delete_account_confirmation = "I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly"
-export const incorrect_password = "Incorrect Password"
+signup_agreement = "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content"
+signups_unavailable = "Sorry, this server does not allow signups"
+user_exists = "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username"
+user_doesnt_exist = "Sorry, this user does not exist"
+delete_account_confirmation = "I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly"
+incorrect_password = "Incorrect Password"
 
 /// Custom CSS to be applied to every page
-export const css = `
+css = `
 /* Put you custom CSS here,
 Read about existing classes and ID's in the docs (coming soon)*\
 `
 
 // pretty please don't change this
-export const attribution = "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>"
+attribution = "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>"

README.md

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ This is a blogging site written in nodejs, all pages are served directly by the
 Please don't use this yet, it's not finished<br/>
 In action on my website: [deadvey.com](https://deadvey.com)<br/>
 
+# Confiuration
+Read the (configuation guide)[CONFIG.md] for configuration help (in config.json)
+
 # features
 * post creation via the web frontend (no need to remote to your server to make a post)
 * multi user