Blot is a site generator. Blot turns a folder into a website. The point of all this — the reason Blot exists — is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions: 

[email protected]

The general architecture of Blot is:

The internet <> Reverse proxy (Openresty) <> Blot (express.js node application) <> Redis

To get Blot running locally, you will need Docker. Once you have Docker installed and running, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot --depth 1

Create an empty `.env` file which you can use to further configure Blot with environment variables.

touch .env

Then start the server:

npm start

By default, the development scripts use Docker's BuildKit with Compose's Bake integration
for faster builds. Make sure you have Docker Buildx and Docker Compose v2 installed.
If you need to opt out, unset `COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD` or set it to `docker`, and set
`DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0` before running the scripts.

Before you begin working on the code, you'll need to open up the following URLs in your browser and add an exception for the self-signed SSL certificates which we've generated:

https://localhost/ - The dashboard
https://cdn.localhost/ - The CDN
https://example.localhost/ - Your site

You can edit the folder for the example blog inside the `data` directory:

./data/blogs/blog_$ID