2016-12-05 Blog Editor Notes

Notes from 3-day sprint

Making wysiwyg blog editor

The purpose of this project is to make it easy for non-technical people to update/make posts in a jekyll-blog. A very concrete use case is my mothers blog, as well as be able to setup non-maintenance websites for other people.

Intended functionality in initial version:

• list/choose a draft/post
• rename/save draft/post (deletes old version, if different name)
• editing a choosen draft/post

Later:

• images as separate files
• autosave
• autocreate username/username.github.io if no repository is entered

Tasks:

• √create repository
• √github login with mubackend
• √list html files in /posts and /drafts
• √read file + meta-data from github into app-db
• √integrate file and editor
• √write/change file on github
• ÷remove file on github if rename
• ÷publish

react-native notes

• You get hotloading, by enabling it on the device in the developer menu (ctrl-n)
• console.log output via adb logcat
• Likely stack: React-native + Redux + ImmutableJS + (Realm or just AsyncStorage + encryption)
• Links
  • http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
  • http://redux.js.org/
  • http://facebook.github.io/immutable-js/
  • https://realm.io/docs/react-native/latest/\#getting-started