Z3 Blog Engine

The Z3 Blog Engine is a learning project. The goals are:

• Learn modern web hosting via Heroku
• Learn development with server-side Javascript, NodeJS, and Postgres
• Professional-grade code with tests

You can see Z3's source code at https://github.com/GWBasic/z3

Features

Z3 is intended for hosting a personal blog and also operates as a light CMS:

• Blog posts with a rich text editor
• Upload images into a blog post via drag and drop
• Images are scaled to fit the page
• Automatic saving and versioning of blog posts
• Upload a profile picture
• Place pages in the header and footer of the page
• Pre-defined appearance templates
• (Mostly) rendered on the server for fast performance, search engine indexing, and reliable delivery
• Automatic schema management

Z3 is a single-user blog. There is a single password for creating and managing content, and no user management. This is ideal for personal blogs and personal web pages.

A user with some technical know-how can create custom templates that change the background image, colors, and fonts. More advanced users can redo the HTML for a more custom look and feel, without needing to alter the source code.

Architecture

Language: Javascript, html, css. (Javascript is both client-side and server-side)

Runtime: NodeJS

Database: Postgres

Hosting: Z3 is tested with Heroku.