Be a silent, static blog

for silent 1.0, check this out

SilentPress: a CMS alternative to VitePress and WordPress. 200+LOC written in Go.
https://github.com/fritx/silentpress

-- for the 10th-anniversary of silent. silent and its simplicity was a once a culture, a spirit, and a memory of ____
#silent #10YearsAnniversary #simplicity #opensource

• no MVVM frameworks (no vue, react, etc)
• no CCS frameworks
• no jquery

• no node_modules (no dependencies, etc)
• no build systems (no gulp, webpack, etc)
• no extra build commands (no npm-run-build or -generate)
• no CI/CD required (github-actions can be optional)
• source code is all it needs to run
• npm-create tooling

• markdown
• mermaid diagrams

• analytics: google, baidu, etc
• comment system: disqus +cusdis +giscus, etc
• backend permission api

• prefer history.pushState api
• progress bar on top
• auto favicon (extracted from title)
• favicon dark mode
• page-level dark mode

• responsive design
• prefer es5 and guarded with eslint
• fallback on browser compatibility break
• IE 6+ support (needs polyfill, etc)

# create it
npm create silent <dest>
# or
npm i -g silent
silent create <dest>

# e.g.
npm create silent ~/t/my-blog
# >>>
# copying /Users/fritx/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/lib/node_modules/silent/blog
#  => /Users/fritx/t/my-blog
# silent-create completed

# serve it
cd ~/t/my-blog
npx serve . -p 3000
# >>>
# Serving! http://localhost:3000

# deploy to your github pages?
cd ~/t/my-blog
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:fritx/silent.git
npx gh-pages -d .
# >>>
# Published. https://fritx.github.io/silent/

Status: no IE

• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=arr%20includes
• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=str%20includes
• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=builtin%20object%20assign
• IE10+ https://caniuse.com/?search=console
• IE10+ https://caniuse.com/?search=pushstate
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=date.now
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=object.keys
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=arr%20foreach
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=querySelector
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=css3%20selectors
• IE8+ https://caniuse.com/?search=scrollintoview

mermaid:

• no IE / Safari 15.4+ https://caniuse.com/?search=structuredClone
• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=arrow%20function

auto title favicon:

• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-color-scheme
• IE10+ https://caniuse.com/?search=matchMedia
• IE9+ https://caniuse.com/?search=canvas

if using giscus:

• no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=ResizeObserver
• IE8+ https://caniuse.com/?search=postmessage
• IE8+ https://caniuse.com/?search=localstorage

Thank you!

• ZhanZengyu's Blog
• Meizhuo's Blog
• Amen's Blog
• Jayin's Blog
• Derek's Blog
• Huang's Blog
• Jason's Blog
• Jayden's Blog
• Fritx' Blog

Rather than a framework or library, silent is more like a spirit - a culture. (says Huang)

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