Hacking Ghost
By Rob Conery
Rob Conery teaches Node and Javascript by hacking features into the popular Ghost Blog.
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jan 15, 2015
Duration
4h 11m
Table of contents
Introduction
Setup
Exporting Data
4m
Forking, Cloning, Installing Modules
8m
Up and Running
3m
Initial Setup, Making Sure Things Work
3m
Hack 1: Maxlength Fix
Hack 2: Augmenting Themes
Creating a Theme, Understanding Git Ignore
6m
A Theme Tour
1m
Creating an Archive Page
8m
Pulling Data for the Archive
9m
Adding the Readium Theme
3m
Hacking the Readium Theme
9m
Hack 3: Full Text Search With PostgreSQL
Intro to Postgres Full-Text Indexing
7m
Creating a Search Route and Theme Page
2m
Diving Into Ghost's Data Access Bits, Part 1
5m
Diving Into Ghost's Data Access Bits, Part 2
13m
Wiring Up a Search Query
5m
Setting Up the Search View
5m
Ordering Results Properly
2m
Adding a Search Box, Using the Querystring
3m
Optimizing the Search Index
6m
Hack 4: Full Text Search With Lunr.js
Introduction to Lunr.js
3m
The Search Module
4m
Testing Our New Module
12m
Plugging Our Module In
4m
Finishing Up
2m
Hack 5: Admin Post Filter
The Admin Ember App
7m
Adding The Filter Box
2m
Fixing Keyboard Shortcut Interference
4m
Hooking Up the Filter to the Controller
3m
Getting the Data We Need
3m
Resetting the List to Our New Filtered List
3m
Wiring It All Up
5m
Hack 6: Deployment
Description
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Jan 15, 2015
Duration
4h 11m
Description
Hacking things is what we do - it's a great way to learn and also help out in the process. In this course, we will take apart Ghost, a popular NodeJS blogging platform in an effort to learn and help out!
About the author
About the author
Rob Conery co-founded Tekpub and created This Developer's Life. He is an author, speaker, and sometimes a little bit opinionated.
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