This post is about the administration page of Blog-Doc.
A front-end administration!
If you have ever worked with a CMS (Content Management System), you know that you have an
administration part (the back-end) where you can do various operations that will be rendered
on the client side (the front-end in the browser).
To my modest knowledge of the most
popular CMS, they all share the same logic of a separated administration that you can access
through an authentication (login) page.
Blog-Doc's administration is rendered with
the app on the front-end, making it more user friendly and simpler to deal with!
I'm
already hearing "What?! An administration on the front-end?! This is totally crazy!".
Don't freak out! At the end of the day it's just a route that can be
protected!
Blog-Doc's administration is already protected if you use it on
Deta Space.
Moreover, if you
use Blog-Doc on a personal server,
this route can be modified to whatever you like making it harder to guess, unlike well known
CMS where you'll have to load plugin(s) / add-on(s) to block the default route and
display the administration on another route...
Various authentication methods can be
applied to protect a route in Node.js, but if you just want to use Blog-Doc as a local
CMS/SSG to generate your static site there is nothing to protect, this is why I didn't
implement a default one for now.
Simple and easy
The administration page is pretty easy to understand.
A menu on the left give access to the different routes of the administration:
- Pages: displays a table of available pages that you can delete or access to update.
- Posts: displays a table of available posts that you can delete or access to update.
- New: displays an interface to create a new page or post.
- Gallery: a gallery to manage (upload/delete) your images.
- Settings: a form where you can modify the app settings to suit your needs.
A central section with 6 cards redirecting to the same routes as the menu except for the last one that launches the build of a static site from your content and offers you to download the generated site as a zipped folder.
Future?
So many ideas come to my mind to improve Bog-Doc's administration.
My only and
mandatory rule it to keep it as simple as possible.
If you have any
suggestion(s)/idea(s) regarding anything about Blog-Doc, please don't hesitate, head
over the Discussions,
click the 💡Ideas category and hit the green
New discussion button.
You can read more about what Blog-Doc has to offer on it's documentation page.
