BlogSharer/index.js

const express = require("express"),
chokidar = require("chokidar"),
fs = require("fs"),
path = require("path"),
showdown = require("showdown"),
mkthtml = new showdown.Converter()

mkthtml.setFlavor("github")

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 8080

var dataPath = path.join(__dirname, 'data')
var postsPath = path.join(dataPath, 'posts')
var staticPath = path.join(__dirname, 'static')

var watcher = chokidar.watch(postsPath)

var app = express()

app.use(express.static(staticPath))

var reqPaths = [dataPath, postsPath]

for (var i = 0; i < reqPaths.length; i++) {
    var p = reqPaths[i]
    if (!fs.existsSync(p)) {
        fs.mkdirSync(p)
    }
}

app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log("Violet's Limbo is now listening on: " + PORT)
})

function pageUpdate() {
    var postsArray = fs.readdirSync(postsPath)
    var posts = {}

    for (let index = 0; index < postsArray.length; index++) {
        const item = postsArray[index];
        const absPath = path.join(postsPath, item)
        const birthtime = fs.statSync(absPath).birthtime

        posts[birthtime] = {"post": item.substring(0, item.length - 3), "date": birthtime}
    }

    var html = ""

    postsArray = Object.keys(posts).sort().reverse()

    for (var i = 0; i < postsArray.length; i++) {
        var addedHTML = ""
        var post = posts[postsArray[i]]

        addedHTML += `<h2><a href="./post/${post.post}">${post.post}</h2></a>`

        html += addedHTML
    }

    var html = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'resources/mainPage.html')).toString().replace('{POSTS}', html)

    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(staticPath, 'index.html'), html)
}

watcher
    .on('add', pageUpdate)
    .on('change', pageUpdate)
    .on('unlink', pageUpdate)

app.get('/post/:post*', (req, res) => {
    var post = fs.readFileSync(path.join(postsPath, req.params.post + '.md')).toString()

    post = mkthtml.makeHtml(post)

    var html = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'resources/postPage.html')).toString()

    html = html.replace('{POST}', post)
    html = html.replace('{POST_TITLE}', req.params.post)

    res.send(html)
})