ZeFer, tell your story to the world

Your story is yours to unfold

Join us on this exciting journey as we build not just a platform, but a living, breathing community where stories resonate, ideas flourish, and connections thrive. ZeFer, the open-source publishing platform, awaits, ready to amplify your voice and celebrate the diverse narratives that make us who we are.

Write in ZeFer, integrate it freely to other platforms with our APIs

We do not limit your blog posts only in our platform, you can freely integrate it to other platforms. We have built an npm package for this. You can check the documentation how to set it up here: https://docs.zefer.blog/

Contributing

Refer to CONTRIBUTING.md

Codebase

Tech stack

Frontend

• Next.js
• Tailwind
• DaisyUI

Backend

• Next.js
• Prisma (using PostgreSQL)
• NextAuth
• Socket.io

Error Tracking

• Sentry.io

Style guide

We use ESLint and prettier. If you have ESLint installed, you should be up and running.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node version 20 or higher
• A Socket IO server for ZeFer, clone and fork it here https://github.com/leindfraust/ZeFerSocketIO

Installation

1. Fork ZeFer repo here https://github.com/leindfraust/ZeFer/fork
2. Clone your forked repository by running git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/zefer.git
3. Populate .env.example and .env.local.example and remove .example once done. Do not modify NEXTAUTH_URL default value unless you use different port
4. Install packages by running npm install
5. You're now ready! Just run npm run dev to start application and navigate to localhost:3000

License

Refer to LICENSE