gnome - A Simple Embeddable Node.js Blog Framework Built on Express.js and MongoDB
How To Install
You can easily drop gnome into your project through the package manager.
$ npm install gnomeHow To Use
Server Side
You can easily integrate gnome into your express.js project.
// Set up express
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
// Set up server homepage
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('Yeah');
});
// Import gnome
var gnome = require('gnome');
// Send in the express app
gnome.setExpress(app);
// Send in the mongodb uri
gnome.setMongoURI('mongodb://[username:password@]host1[:port1][,host2[:port2],...[,hostN[:portN]]][/[database][?options]]');
// Initialize the blog api
gnome.initBlog();
// Listen
app.listen(8000);
console.log('Listening on port 8000');Client Side
There is a client side js file that can be called via HTML. (It is dependent on jQuery)
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="gnome/gnomeclient.js"></script>
<script src="yourjavascript.js"></script>There are several jQuery extensions now availible.
// Create a post
var post = {
title: "How To Use Node.js",
author: "NodeNinja",
body: "BLAHBLAHBLAH",
tags: ['tutorials','nodejs','projects']
};
// Publish the post
$.newPost(post);
// Get all posts in a JSON object
var history = $.getAllPosts();
// Get a single post by id (unique object id)
var singlepost = $.getPostById('5265d92146b9320c02000001');About MongoDB Configuration
gnome stores your blog posts in MongoDB, within a collection called gnomeblog
