Do you want to use the Ghost blogging platform in the back-end with React in the front-end? Then you are in the right place.

Tapas is a React.js based interface (website & admin panel) for the Ghost blogging platform API.

• ES6 and Babel integration
• Free of jQuery and Bootstrap
• Basic normalize CSS reset
• Custom CSS3 animation implementation
• Webpack development and production environment configuration
• Webpack Dev Server with Hot loader
• Webpack SCSS, SVG and IMG support
• Autoprefixer for all CSS rules
• ESLint with AirBnb rules
• React Router configuration with browser history and base path
• React Helmet for page titles and SEO
• React GA for Google Analytics integration
• Fastclick lib for quick touch events
• Redux implemtantion
• CircleCI and Heroku implementation
• PWA Offline caching, manifest and icons
• Optimised with Google's Lighthouse audit tool
• Includes common components for icons, loaders and notifications
• Froala text editor with plugins
• Reading progress scrollbar
• Datepicker integration
• Pagination for posts
• CRUD for Ghost posts with public and private API integration

Install the dependencies using Yarn

yarn

If you need to install Ghost locally, you can follow this article. If on the other hand, you want to self-host Ghost on a server, you can follow this other article.

The easiest way is to install the Ghost CLI using sudo npm i -g ghost-cli@latest. Then install Ghost locally by running ghost install local inside a ghost folder within the react-ghost folder. Bear in mind that Ghost needs Node v8.9 and this project needs node v.7.4. You can use nvm to handle these two different node versions.

If everything goes well, you should see Ghost running on http://localhost:2368/. You can visit the admin panel at http://localhost:2368/ghost where you can create a user account for the blog owner. You can skip inviting other users at this point if you like.

Now you need to get client-secret by inspecting the authentication/token request in the original Ghost admin panel (http://localhost:2368/ghost) when you sign in. More info

Add the path the Ghost instance, the client ID and the secret in /src/app/constants/constants.jsx

If the Ghost instance and the react-ghost app are running in different hosts, you will have to follow this tutorial to white-list the react-ghost host. Remember that if you are using a local DB, you have to edit ghost-local.db.

The SQL queries would look similar to this:

insert into client_trusted_domains (id, client_id, trusted_domain) values ('5a2a54900000000000000000', '5a3ba5aeba4eb8337739e311', 'http://localhost:8080');
insert into client_trusted_domains (id, client_id, trusted_domain) values ('5a2a54900000000000000001', '5a3ba5afba4eb8337739e312', 'http://localhost:8080');

yarn run dev

The website will be available at localhost:8080

• If there is another app running on that port, it will use 8081

It will bundle all the files in the /dist folder

yarn run build

It will deploy the app to your Heroku account

heroku deploy

• Text Editor: Froala
• Homepage particles animation: Vicent Garreau
• Some icons by Flaticon