by {fm author} on undefined 0NaN, NaN 0NaN:0NaN

frontpost

a suckless, self-explanatory CMS in 180 lines of code (80ms build time)

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why this and not X?

• support for frontmatter
• theres only 2 dependencies, it's never gonna break
• everything is thoroughly documented, you're meant to continuously update it urself instead of waiting for someone else to update it
• dead simple
• customizable down to everything in templating and file structure
• written in javascript

why not this?

• pretty barebones
• no integration with frontend frameworks, your templates are html with values parsed in index.js
• written in javascript

how to use::

git clone https://github.com/qwool/frontpost
cd frontpost
npm i
node prepareDirs
node ./index.js

then, everything is in your dist directory.

how to ACTUALLY use it::

every X before an option means how much time you'll spend on it. everything is sorted in order of importance

• |___| put all your .md files inside src/content
• |___| any file inside src/static gets copied into dist/
• |x__| it uses frontmatter, which can be customized as well!
• |xxx| templates are preconfigured, but you can customize them
• |xx_| also marked.js has functionality which is configured in index.js at line 20
• |xxx| you can commit anytime! the codebase is in 1 file and it's small enough for anyone with JS knowledge to modify.

frontmatter

---
title: Midwest Emo and why Nick Hartkop should be put down.
description: idk? just my thoughts tbh
(BUT if you disagree you're wrong!!)
created: 2000-10-01 12:58:45
customValue: anything
---

if you've used any actual markdown CMS you know this - just put a similar block at the start and you're set!
also you can add any of them to ur template!! just use {fm value} where value is a string. maybe u wanna add an author? idk u do u man again, every default thing in the order of importance:

• created: (any time JS will understand(so basically anything)) - it's needed for sorting your posts
• title: string - very much useless if you have a heading first thing in your document, but just in case it's there. not required
• description - actually add it bc otherwise it takes the first paragraph which sucks ass!!!!!

templating

everything is contained in files in src/templates

default strings are as follows:

articleListing.html

• created
• url
• description
• title

post.html

• content
• title
• header
• created

index.html

• articles
• header

beyond//contacts::

contact me anywhere from discord qwool#5851/@fuckcars to telegram @qwool if you decide you wanna contribute anything to this project and need some help decyphering/understanding any part of it.

to install dependencies::

npm install

3 external dependecies - marked.js, js-yaml and strftime.

to run::

node index.js

thanks to!

• marked.js contributors
• whoever fixes lines 56-88