Dear Desi

A nice, friendly tool to help you get set up and start blogging with Desirae

Front-end written in AngularJS, back-end in Node.js

Install and Usage

If you're on OS X or Linux, it's as easy as pie to install and use Desirae.

First install io.js (or node.js), if you haven't already.

# io.js

echo "v1.0.1" > /tmp/IOJS_VER
curl -fsSL bit.ly/easy-install-iojs | bash

# node.js

echo "v0.11.14" > /tmp/NODE_VER
curl -fsSL bit.ly/easy-install-node | bash

Then install desi

npm install -g desi

And create a copy of the desirae-seed

git clone git@github.com:DearDesi/desirae-blog-template.git ~/my-desirae-blog
pushd ~/my-desirae-blog

git submodule init
git submodule update

And now fire up Dear Desi to get started

desi serve -d ~/my-desirae-blog

Now open up your evergreen browser to http://local.dear.desi:65080

Commandline

Once you've done the initial setup in the browser, you can run desi from the commandline

NOTE: You can omit the -d if you are already in your blog directory.

Build Production Site

You must set base_path and base_url in site.yml before attempting to build.

desi build -d ~/my-desirae-blog

Outputs to ~/my-desirae-blog/compiled

Create a new Post

desi post "My First Post" -d ~/my-desirae-blog

Outputs to ~/my-desirae-blog/posts/my-first-post.md