SHOW HN: I rebuilt my blogging app on Node.js and just open sourced it

Thank you! Just trying to spread the word. Thanks for the love!

Sure thing. I built Postleaf because I couldn't find any other open source platforms that featured inline editing. That was probably the main reason I started the project, but it soon evolved into "software should be smarter and beautiful."

So, I spent a lot of time making sure Postleaf's design was polished from top to bottom. Then I added features that "just work" such as dynamic images. In short, dynamic images automatically make all your images responsive without any effort from the user. (No more 20MB page loads due to a novice user uploading a photo.)

Another thing that annoys me to this day is when backups are complex and don't contain your uploaded files. Postleaf generates a single backup ZIP file, including simple JSON files of all data and all your uploaded files. To restore, you just upload the same ZIP file.

I try pay a lot of attention to detail with Postleaf. In the end, I think the motto is really what Postleaf is all about: Simple, beautiful publishing.

Thanks!

It looks like Leafpub (written in PHP) is the first incarnation of Postleaf (written in Node)

From the GitHub readme, Postleaf seems to be in the alpha stage... not yet ready for production use, it seems.

https://github.com/Postleaf/postleaf

Nope! That's a fork of the original PHP version that I released last year. New version is Node.js based.

Thanks!

Yes, thanks! It's been through a few iterations, but I've done all design and dev thus far :)