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Kamber
[Kamber](./asset/kamber.png)
Kamber is a blog server based on Kemal.
This is not a static blog generator, it's a static blog server. It doesn't require any other HTTP servers. It uses Crystal and Kemal to generate HTML and also serve it.
Quickstart
Deploy on Heroku and start blogging in a minute!
Features
- Supports many post types:
- Markdown Posts
- GitHub Gist
- Tweet Embeds
- Video Embeds
- Disqus Comments
- Very fast, ~15x faster than other static site generators/servers, since it's based on Kemal. See Benchmarks
- Easy to develop. Just add contents to
posts.yml
file. - Custom themes.
Getting Started
1. Install Crystal and Kamber
brew install crystal-lang
git clone https://github.com/f/kamber myblog
cd myblog
shards install
2. Add Contents
- Edit
kamber/config.cr
and set your title. - Edit
posts/posts.yml
file and add some content.
3. Build and Run
crystal build --release src/kamber.cr
./kamber
To run in production, add -e production
flag.
./kamber -e production
Themes
Kamber has theme support.
Theme | GitHub |
---|---|
Kamber Default Theme | f/kamber-theme-default |
Kamber Dark Theme | f/kamber-theme-dark |
Writing Custom Themes
Kamber has a simple API to build your own themes. To start quickly, just fork the kamber-theme-default
and start hacking it.
We are waiting for your themes!
Configuration
You can set your blog title from config.cr
$BLOG_TITLE = "My Awesome Blog"
$BLOG_DESC = "programming journal"
$GOOGLE_ANALYTICS = "UA-XXXXX-X"
# Activate Theme
require "kamber-theme-default"
Post Types
posts/posts.yml
has multiple YAML documents, each represents a blog item (aka post type).
Post (Markdown)
type: post
title: Example Post
abstract: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit
file: posts/example-post.md
disqus: true
Link
type: link
title: Example Link
url: "http://crystal-lang.org"
Video
Kamber supports Youtube and Vimeo videos. The main pattern of video
is
[video provider]/[video id]
type: video
title: Example Video
abstract:
video: youtube/YE3GkCB3t_0
If you will use Vimeo, change video
key to
video: vimeo/147842467
Tweet
This type embeds Tweets to the index. The pattern is [username]/[tweet id]
type: tweet
title: Example Tweet
tweet: fkadev/673506301415194625
Gist
This type embeds GitHub Gists to the index. The pattern is [username]/[gist id]
type: gist
title: Example Gist
gist: f/c12af6b9e7d53bd9224d
Deploy to Heroku
Kamber uses custom buildpack to run in Heroku.
heroku create myblog --buildpack https://github.com/f/heroku-buildpack-kamber
git push heroku master
Screenshots
[Screen 1](./asset/screen-1.png)
[Screen 2](./asset/screen-2.png)
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/f/kamber/fork )
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request
Roadmap
- [x] Add base post types and make it run
- [ ] Add page support
Contributors
- f Fatih Kadir Akın - creator, maintainer
Kambersiz düğün olmaz.