Golb

Swift as a Webserver on Linux – Blog written in Swift

WIP TODO Blog

• Spawn a Swift webserver on Linux
• Mustache template engine
• Add a simple design and work with static files
• PostgreSQL
• Create a page to Show an article
• Parse & Display Markdown
• Create a simple admin, for at least create and edit posts
• Dates, (display article creation)
• Users
• Comments / emoji reaction
• RSS feed
• Categories
• First install setup page
• gzip static content
• serve content/type to static file
• add global timeout to requests

Framework itself

• External Settings loading (e.g yml?)

Better dev tool

• Quickly deploy in both local (OSX) and prod (Linux) -- Makefile + Dockerfile
• Make project works with both Swift Package Manager and Xcode
• Makefile to install dependencies on OSX/Linux
• Create a migration system for SQL
• Fully integrate docker-compose/Tutum for deployment (instead of external Postgres URL)
• Add an access/error log system and made it persist through a docker volume-container
• Create a cli to generate/scaffold project, models, routes, views, controllers
• Add unit testing
• Add front-end tools (Gulp + Bower at least)
• Add a Watcher which relaunch local server

Docs

• Initial README
• Get started document
• Contributing section
• Define the purpose of this repo (Blog engine vs. web framework)

Community

The project heavily depends on the (so nice) Zewo Stack, the best way to reach me is on their Slack.