My first post

print "Hello World!"

This is my first blog post on my new handcrafted blog.

I thought about going with a static website generator such as Hugo or Jekyll, but after using them in the past I never felt like I had true ownership of what I could or could not do. Hand-crafting a single-page application was better because I knew each and every part of my stack, and I could swap out dependencies more easily.

Current capabilities (4-5-2017):

• Support for:
  • Markdown!! (via markdown-it)
  • Syntax highlighting for code blocks (via markdown-it-prism)
  • Images (via file-loader and webpack)
  • File upload and fetching (via axios)
  • Basic routing (via react-router)

Remaining TODOs:

• Add in working support (no console errors) for:
  • UML diagrams or equivalent via markdown-it-mermaid or js-sequence-diagrams
  • TeX support w/ KaTeX via markdown-it-katex
  • Disqus comment forums or equivalent
  • Google Analytics integrations and SEO optimization
• Generate easily usable deployment pipeline with npm or bash scripts
• YAML or TOML base configs to go with each markdown blog post, because having metadata to organize by is nice at any meaningful scale
• Webpack code splitting with react-router
• Fully responsive and mobile-friendly navbar with hamburger icon
• In-browser real-time markdown editor for editing and generating new blog posts
• Serverless authentication (not sure if it's an oxymoron)
• Linting. So much linting.

I'll write a brief architectural overview of this application after getting it deployed. Excited to see where this goes.