silent 2.0

Be a silent, static blog

for silent 1.0, check this out

🎉🎉 silent's 10th Anniversary

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

Features

Old-school & Clean

[x] no MVVM frameworks (no vue, react, etc)
[x] no CCS frameworks
[ ] no jquery

Static & Portable

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

Writing, Focus and Visualization

[x] markdown
[x] mermaid diagrams

Extendable & Integration

[x] analytics: google, baidu, etc
[x] comment system: disqus +cusdis +giscus, etc
[ ] backend permission api

Funny & Fancy & Performance

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

Security & Stability

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

Usage

# 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 [email protected]:fritx/silent.git
npx gh-pages -d .
# >>>
# Published. https://fritx.github.io/silent/

Browser Compatibility

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
[x] 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
[x] IE8+ https://caniuse.com/?search=scrollintoview

mermaid:

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

auto title favicon:

[x] no IE https://caniuse.com/?search=prefers-color-scheme
[x] 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

Silent Fans

Thank you!

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

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🎉🎉 silent's 10th Anniversary