Devlog

My dev log and other logs.

A very simple blogging engine that I often use to test some ideas wrt web programming (and general programming) in Python.

Development

Grab the source

git clone https://github.com/zgoda/devlog.git

Set up local Python runtime

Python 3.8 or newer is required. In Ubuntu 22.04 default is Python 3.10 so you should be good to go. It's best to update installation tools upfront.

/usr/bin/python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools

With activated virtualenv you now may install Devlog in dev mode.

pip install -U -e .[dev]

Now copy .env.example to .env and modify it to suit your environment. Some JS tools are required so run npm i. I tested it with Node 18 but it may work with older versions. This will install cleancss-cli tool, you will need an implementation of SASS too. Either download dart-sass and put it in PATH (eg ~/.local/bin on Ubuntu) or install JS version with npm i -D sass.

Once installed Devlog provides CLI for basic management. 1st thing is to initialise database.

devlog db init

Now you may launch your local instance. By default it listens on port 5000 and it's bound only to 127.0.0.1. This is fine if you want to access it only from emulator running on the same machine (use 10.0.2.2:5000 as host name), otherwise you may specify host and port using -h and -p parameters.

devlog run

There's a lot of command line options, consult --help to learn more.