Blog engine is probably a bit of an overstatement: Gonzo will look for a folder named posts in a given directory and will then generate a couple of index pages referencing the Markdown files it found there. And that's about it! 🤷
Check out this repository to see what the result looks like.
Gonzo was designed...
- To be text and file oriented
- Zero configuration required
- To support Markdown only
- This is the only markup language I can bear to write
- GitHub's rendering of Markdown content is pretty slick
- With zero consideration for esthetics
- Content first
- No more endless struggle with Jekyll themes
Also keep in mind that Gonzo was implemented...
- As a simple fun experiment
- This is absolutely not production ready
- Very quickly
- In just a few days
- After work hours
- To be extremely opinionated
- The project's name is a reference to Gonzo journalism which is written "without claims of objectivity"
All this to say that Gonzo is more a toy project than anything and that it should not be used for anything serious. Other than that, feel free to try it out 🕹️
The original concept came from Josh Branchaud's TIL repo: He uses Markdown files for bite-size publications that are not worthy of a full blog post. I really liked the approach so I figured:
Why not go all the way and host a complete blog on GitHub?
So... yeah, basically, I stole his idea... Thanks josh! ✌️