tibl is a bad blog "engine" that currently consists on poorly defined js functions that get markdown posts from Github and renders them client-side.
tibl is very minimal: even the post listing is in markdown, and is done by hand. In the near future tibl may get a cli tool to manage the post listing more programmatically.
toc generation may be implemented soontm
Since tibl is very minimal, it doesn't require anything else than something which is able to serve html.
TODO
Currently using tibl may appear a bit cumbersome. I'd like to provide some client editor, using client-side Github oauth login plus a tiny markdown editor someday, but I don't know if it's possible.
TLDR: t.html?t=sth renders data/topics/sth.md, t.html?p=sth renders data/topics/_sth.md, t.html alone renders database.md.
I call them topic because why not but eh
Your posts live in data/topics (you can rename topics posts if you edit the lines 27 and 29 of t.html accordingly. I'll provide a config var someday).
Posts that begin with an underscore (_), well. They begin with an underscore. They are pages, and they won't be taken into account when building the post listing (when such a tool exists). It's for About/Contact pages, for example.
Write your post as you like:
# Hello !
Hello and welcome to my tiny tibl site.
It's fresh and quiet here.
I like **markdown**.
> See you !Add your post into the database.md file:
# Posts
* [Hello !][hello]
* [Blog post about things][things]
t.html?p=hello will link to data/topics/hello.md. tibl will add .md at the end, so don't add it in the database.md or it won't work.
Here's what your data file should look like:
data/
topics/
hello.md # <- Your new post
things.md
database.md # <- Edited database
foot.md
index.md
nav.mdcss/ #<- Make tibl bearable for the eyes
normalize.css
sakura.css # <- Using oxalorg/sakura as the classless theme
data/ # <- All of your post content
topics/ # <- Your posts
hello.md
things.md
...
database.md # <- Post listing
foot.md # <- footer
index.md # <- index page
nav.md # <- nav bar
js/
tibl.js # <- tibl javascript functions
config.js # <- config array, currently empty :]
index.html # <- Renders the index. Similar to t.html?p=index, I guess
t.html # <- Renders pages and topics.Just use classless themes.
Note: I just tested Sakura.
I use a markdown nav and footer but if it's not ok for you use html.
Just change data/{nav, foot}.md to your convinience.
Just use something else