GreenPress

Open-source blogs and content websites platform, made for the 21st century.

Dependencies

Direct usage

• Node.js
• NPM
• Docker / MongoDB
• (Optional: Redis)

Dockerized usage

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Getting started

Install

$ npm install
$ npm run build

Run production

$ npm start

Run development

# In case you have separated MongoDB instance on your local machine:
$ npm run dev

# In case you don't (will run MongoDB using Docker):
$ npm run dev --x=all

Dockerized Usage

Pre-running

Before running a docker-compose environment, you'll need an .env file and the compose library.

You can just copy the .env.example and call it .env (manually), but you can also do it on command line:

$ cd compose

# for linux or mac:
$ cp .env.example .env

# for all operation systems (including windows):
$ npm run create-env

Running Greenpress via Docker-Compose is a very simple task. You might need to pre-install Docker and Docker Compose, and then run these commands:

$ cd compose
$ docker-compose up

Scaling dockerized application

When using dockerized solution, you can choose to run each service separately, and scale each service according to your needs. To run a composition that is more suitable to those cases, use the "scaled" yaml:

$ cd compose
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.scaled.yml up

If you're using a small machine, such as shared hosting packages, or low cpu or memory cloud services, you should probably use the basic environment, such as the regular compose file, or directly using Node.js.

Set custom configurations

There are 2 ways to extend the default Greenpress configurations. Basic way is by environment variables, and the second part is to add a greenpress.config.js file to your project's root folder.

The greenpress.config.js can either export the configuration object, or export a function that will get the base configuration object, and expected to return a new configuration object. Note that the base configuration object passed to the function will include data that calculated by environment variables before.