React Blog
React + Github Issues π Your Personal Blog π₯
React Blog is a personal blog system build on React that helps you create your own personal blog using Github Issues
π₯ Features
π Live Demo
Here's a live demo
Github Issues / Blogs
π Get Up and Running in 10 Minutes
You can get a react-blog site up and running on your local dev environment in 10 minutes with these five steps:
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
You'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer
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1. From your command line, clone and run react-blog-github:
# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/saadpasta/react-blog-github.git
# Go into the repository
$ cd react-blog-github
# Install dependencies
$ npm install
2. Generate a Github Personal Access Token.
Generate a Github personal access token using these Instructions Make sure you don't select any scope just generate a simple token without any scope
After that copy your generated token and then encode your token into base 64 using this Website
Copy your base64 converted token
3. Create a GitHub App
Go on the following URL: https://github.com/settings/apps/new
There are a few fields to fill carefully:
- Homepage URL: https://your_username.github.io/react-blog-github/
- Callback URL: https://your_username.github.io/react-blog-github/
- Check "Request user authorization (OAuth) during installation"
In permissions & events, set Read & Write on Issues
In "Install App", install the app on your user and select your repository
4. Change /src/config.js.
Go to your cloned repository and make the following changes in /src/config.js
export const config = {
// Your Github Converted Token To Know How To Get Your Token Look at Readme.md
githubConvertedToken: "Your token here",
// Your Github UserName
githubUserName: "Your username here",
// Your Github Repo Name Where You Have your issues as Blog
githubRepo: "Your repo's name here",
// Set it to true if you have a Github app to add to this project
// and fill the client ID & secret
enableOAuth: true,
OAuthClientID: 'Github App Client ID',
OAuthSecret: 'Github App Secret',
// Your Personal Blog Title
title : "Title of your blog" ,
// Your Personal Blog Subtitle
subtitle : "Subtitle of your blog",
// Header customization
header: {
backgroundColor: '#f1f6f8', // can be a CSS gradient
titleColor: '#ff5252',
subtitleColor: '#37474f',
},
};5. Write A Blog.
After doing following changes now you just need to write a blog on repository issues that you have mentioned in your config.js
- Open your repository github issues
- Create a new issue
- Now write your blog in github issue in markdown. You can also use slack edit to write your markdown
- Add a label
blogon your github issue to make it different from other standard issues. Keep in mindbloglabel is mandatory otherwise it won't show on your website.
6. Start Your React App.
That's it now you just need to start your react application From your command line run .
# Run
$ npm start
π οΈ Technologies used
This project is only possible thanks to the awesomeness of the following projects:
π± Inspiration
This project is inspired from many other similar projects.
π€ Contributing
Any idea on how we can make this more awesome ? Open a new issue! We need all the help we can get to make this project awesome!
π₯ Todo
- Add Comment From Github
- Authentication using Github
- Footer
- Header
- Social Media Sharing
π License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
Contributors β¨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 SyedMuhammadHammadGhani |
 Saad Pasta |
 Jason Van Malder |
 Slim Coder |
 waleed345 |
 Abhishek Kashyap |
 Zebra |
 Jaeyeon Kim |
 Parthiv |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!