GUI/Administrative interface for Jekyll

[benbalter]

Summary

This project would create a traditional CMS-style graphical / interactive interface (think WordPress's wp-admin section) to author static content and administer Jekyll sites. This could be a generic WYSIWYG markdown editor for static sites, or a purpose built tool for non-command-line users to administer their Jekyll site.

Expected Outcome

The project would result in a desktop application, or easy-to-run web server, that would allow less-traditionally-technical Jekyll site maintainers to more easily author Markdown content for static sites and/or administer their Jekyll site, such as creating new posts, adding collections, and modifying post-specific and site-wide settings.

Skills

This project can go in several different directions. Mentees can build the project entirely in Ruby, as a web server, that users would access via their browser (e.g., localhost:4000/admin). This would require traditional Ruby web development skills, and knowledge of how to write files to read and write files to and from disk using Ruby. It can also take the form of a stand-alone application, such as one using Electron, or a Atom plugin, both of which would require knowledge of Node, and the ability to read/write file to/from disk in Node.

Relevant issues

http://prose.io, https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/visual-editor-for-jekyll/1055, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jekyll-editor/dfdkgbhjmllemfblfoohhehdigokocme?hl=en, and https://atom.io/packages/markdown-writer, https://atom.io/packages/jekyll.

Mentors

@benbalter, @parkr

[mertkahyaoglu]

Really cool project :sparkles: I would love to work on it.

[erlend-sh]

Prior art:

https://github.com/gabriel-john/utterson (discuss here) https://github.com/rlafranchi/statixite https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms

[hackerkid]

This project is awesome. I would also love to work on it :zap:

[dinever]

Pretty cool project. BTW you guys can refer to this one. https://github.com/jaredly/hexo-admin.git

[hackerkid]

@benbalter @parkr I mailed to opensource@gh regarding this project three days before. I didn't get a reply yet. Should I mail you guys to your personal mail or wait some more time for the reply?

Since the application period is opening soon I would love to hear your feedback before submitting the proposal.

[benbalter]

I mailed to opensource@gh regarding this project three days before. I didn't get a reply yet. Should I mail you guys to your personal mail or wait some more time for the reply?

@hackerkid Glad to see you're excited, and thanks for your patience over the weekend. I just replied with some high-level feedback.

[hackerkid]

@benbalter Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will make changes as you suggested.

[arrowrowe]

Hi, mind asking the current progress here? Didn't find much information in Jekyll's repo (by searching inside it) or @hackerkid's public activities.

[benbalter]

@arrowrowe the project is still a proposed idea. I suspect the above discussion was largely part of the Google Summer of Code Application process.

[arrowrowe]

@benbalter got it. Thanks for the response!

[Sneezry]

Here's a project I wrote last year, and published just now.

https://github.com/JekyllWriter/JekyllWriter

[rebornix]

@Sneezry currently it's more or less a Writer, you can make it a real administrator application :+1:

[Sneezry]

@rebornix Yeah, I'll try to do it :)

[rush-skills]

Hey @benbalter . I would love to work on this project for GSoC'16. I have sent a mail to you and @parkr with some ideas and would love your feedback.

[hackerkid]

@Sneezry Thanks for sharing the project.

[benbalter]

🎉 See https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin.