Yufan Personal Weblog

This is a legacy project for in favor of the Astro based new blog.

This is a personal weblog for Yufan Sheng which is built on Next.js and hosted on zeabur. His original weblog is generated by the Hexo, you can referrer the original weblog's source code in hexo.

Core Frameworks

• Next.js: The static generator and core framework on React
• Radix UI: The UI framework
• Artalk: The self-hosted comment system
• Fuse.js: Search engine
• Velite: The static blog posts bundler
• MySQL: The view counter and like button for all my posts

Local Development

This weblog is still under development. A lot of ideas and thoughts are still in my checklists. You can fork and clone this project for your own perspective. But you should use it at your own risk.

This weblog uses the MySQL as the storage for post-views and fav button. The configuration isn't defined in the .env for security reason. You should modify the .env.example file and rename it to .env.local for your local development.

# Clone this project.
git clone https://github.com/syhily/yufan.me.git

# Install the dependencies by using bun.
npm install

# Check the newer dependencies.
npm update

# Start local development with a live preview. The weblog is hosted on http://localhost:4321
npm run dev

Artalk Integration

This weblog use artalk as its backend comment service. But since artalk didn't provide the latest comments API. We decide to query it directly from MySQL database. So the comments and fav clicks are living in the same database.

HTTP Request Routes

This weblog HTTP request routes keeps the same as my original weblog. I just list here for comprehension. You can change it as you personal needs.

• / - List the lasted posts and pinged posts on top of it.
  • /api/likes - Like button.
  • /page/{number} - List the posts by the page number.
  • /cats/{slug} - List all the posts in this category. Posts can belong to only one category.
    • /cats/{slug}/page/{number} - List the posts in the given category by the page number.
  • /tags/{slug} - List the posts under this tag.
    • /tags/{slug}/page/{number} - List the posts under this tag with page number.
  • /links - A special endpoint for listing all the friends' website.
  • /feed - The subscribing page for display the xml.
  • /posts/{slug} - Shw the article.
  • /{slug} - Show the page. The pages don't belong to any categories nor tags.

Writing

All the posts should be placed in content/posts directory with MDX format. All the pages should be placed in content/pages directory with MDX format. You can add any scripts or other customizable features by leveraging the MDX.

Front Matter

Front-matter is a block of YAML at the beginning of the file that is used to configure settings for your writings. Front-matter is terminated by three dashes when written in YAML.

YAML

---
title: Hello World
date: 2013/7/13 20:46:25
---

Post Front Matter Settings

Setting	Description	Required	Default
id	ID (unique), used as the permalink	true	Filename
title	Title	true	Filename
date	Published date	true
updated	Updated date	false	Published date
comments	Enables comment feature for the post	false	true
tags	Tags	false	null
category	Category	true	null
summary	Post summary in plain text	false	First 140 characters
cover	The cover image	false	null
published	Whether the post should be published	false	true

Pages Front Matter Settings

Setting	Description	Required	Default
id	ID (unique), used as the permalink	true	Filename
title	Title	true	Filename
date	Published date	true
updated	Updated date	false	Published date
comments	Enables comment feature for the post	false	true
cover	The cover image	false	null
published	Whether the post should be published	false	true

Weblog Design

Almost all the design resources are placed in the asserts. I mainly use the Sketch as my design tools.

Logo

The fonts used in weblog logo is M+A1 with license, UnGungseo with license, and Iroha Mochi with license.

They are the fonts that can be used in business without any charge.

Favicon

The favicon is almost the same as the weblog logo. The main different is that we simplify the elements used in logo. Pick up the main park from the logo and change the dot color for readability in small icon. The background color is included in the exported favicon. That is because we want to make sure it could be viewed clearly in any browser.

The size of the favicon is following this tutorial to get it worked everywhere.

Article Fonts

The OPPOSans 3.0 is used for reading in my weblog. It can be used in business scenarios without any modification. Since we can't provide 3rd-party download link by the license limitation, we have to reference this font by using OPPO's internal link. The license file is here

Deploy the Weblog

This weblog is deployed on the zeabur platform. You can check their documents and get your own weblog to be published without any budget at first.

Or you can host on your own machine. Use the pm2 to have a long-running process without an exit.

The comment system is leverage the Artalk, a self-hosted comment system. You should host it on your own machine. But it can be modified and changed to any other comment solutions. For instance, the giscus is an opinionated choice.

TODO Checklist

• Rewrite the blog posts in Astro.
• Add cover for all my posts. Remain 79 posts.
• Better style for Artalk comments.
• Slide share components integration.
• Drop bootstrap, in favor of tailwind css.
• Add han.js support for better typograph.

License

The source code of this blog is licensed under the MIT license, feel to free to use it without any legal risks.

The content of this blog's posts is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.