Re:Build a Blog Engine in Go
by PuerkitoBio on Saturday August 03, 2013 @10:40AM
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Author here. As I mention in the opening lines, I agree that this is really not the most original idea, barely above web frameworks :)
This was an attempt to build the minimal features required to have a useful yet ridiculously simple blog engine. Of course it is very subjective, and to me there are enough options to comment outside the blog itself (this thread here being a good example), I didn't feel this was required. I think a more "controversial" choice may be the absence of a distinct template for the index page. I know this is not acceptable for some, but then there are a few other blog generators to choose from!
Re:Build a Blog Engine in Go
by jacques_chester on Saturday August 03, 2013 @11:11AM
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To each their own, friend.
Check out https://bitbucket.org/ant512/gobble
It's a lot like the blogging engine described in the article, but it includes comments/Aksimet/reCAPTCHA and tagging.
My main nitpick would be that I see a standard blog as requiring a comments facility. Inbuilt, I don't count disqus as having reached the minimum feature level.
I'm also wary of flat file fetishism. Where data is strictly hierarchical and there is only one pattern of access, YAML would suit fine.
In blogs you pretty get into not-hierarchical-really stuff pretty quickly. As soon as the first per-tag or per-author archive page is added, for instance.