Show HN: Glee – Publish Markdown Files into Ghost Blog Posts(github.com)
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Show HN: Glee – Publish Markdown Files into Ghost Blog Posts
https://github.com/HexmosTech/glee
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Thank you for making this, I find writing things in Ghost horrendous. You can't copy into/out of Ghost easily without screwing up a ton of formatting. That little "Markdown" field they give you doesn't even render a bunch of standard markdown syntax correctly. It just serves as an irritating abstraction layer for developers who would rather use pandoc
You've captured perfectly in words, what our frustrations were with Ghost (for a long time). All those "markdown cards" and stuff, just distracted from the key thing my team wanted to do: write stuff and improve it with the team :)
What happens if I don't have an S3 bucket available to host the images? Are there other options that can be configured for hosting images?
glee now supports uploading images into your ghost database instead of AWS S3. Please check the Image backend Configuration[1] section in glee readme.
[1]:https://github.com/HexmosTech/glee#image-storage-backend-con...
[1]:https://github.com/HexmosTech/glee#image-storage-backend-con...
This tool was built a year or so ago, when Ghost lacked a sophisticated image API (IIRC). Just checked now, there seems to be a solid API for managing images. Stay tuned to the repo, will try to add support to this.
Meanwhile, one could always directly link image URLs (say from Google Drive).
Meanwhile, one could always directly link image URLs (say from Google Drive).
Earlier had published a related blogpost [1] to HN. Just posting the github link, in case someone (or engg. team) finds this useful.
TLDR: A simple tool to publish markdown files into a Ghost [2] blog post. Super useful for engineering teams, because as engineers we'd rather commit our blogposts into git, and have things edited and collaborated on pure markdown. Nothing fancy.
[1]: https://journal.hexmos.com/glee/
[2]: https://ghost.org/