Collaborate?

[voxpelli]

Just wanted to open an issue here so we could coordinate some possible collaboration between our two Micropub/IndieWeb approaches in Node.js.

I felt it was easier to throw together a few simple parts myself just to wrap my head around what Micropub really is and does and now have an entire flow set up of which I've broken out three main modules (the main projects isn't published yet, but is just some very minor glue between the different parts) – especially considering that my impression is that you're rewriting this project as well?

The projects currently lack proper README:s – I will fix that as soon as I can, but for now this is what I've got:

1. voxpelli/node-micropub-express – an Express 4 route that exposes a Micropub API and which will call a callback for the different possible CRUD-actions. Normalizes all data into the Microformat JSON-format that Micropub uses.
2. voxpelli/node-format-microformat – takes Microformat JSON data and formats it into something else. Currently very hardcoded to a specific Jekyll style, but thinking of making it more dynamic and configurable. Gives formatted filename, URL and file content
3. voxpelli/node-github-publish – uses the GitHub Content API to publish something to GitHub

My current Micropub endpoint is just a simple glue between these three – the result from each one is sent to the next one.

Perhaps it could be interesting to share one or many of these between our two projects?

Will comment here when I've added proper README:s to the projects.

[bcomnes]

I'm definitely down to collaborate. I wrote this a monolith since I didn't really know how any of this worked when I started.

It looks like you are on the right track to start writing these as smaller modules. I'll definitely have to give these a peek.

It's not totally done yet, but I was trying to write up some framework agnostic modules to help with the different micropub steps. So far I've gotten parts of a bearer token extractor working:

• https://github.com/bcomnes/node-oauth-bearer

@notenoughneon put together a really ace object representation of micropub objects as well that I might poke around with and see if its worth modularizing.

https://github.com/notenoughneon/skein/blob/master/microformat.js

My plan right now is to just keep writing small micropub related modules and see how they want to fit together best. I'll give your work a read when I get some time.

[voxpelli]

I've now added proper README:s to my three modules, so now it should be a bit easier to actually wrap ones head around what they do.

I guess the micropub-express and the github-publish modules might be the two most interesting ones for you – the intent of the first one is just to comply with the Micropub API and map that to an internal Node.js API so that one can work with things a bit easier, and the intent of the other one is to just be the smallest simplest way of publishing a file to a GitHub repository.

Do you still plan to move to Hapi instead of staying on Express? I myself will likely stay with Express – especially considering the new pluggable routes of Express 4, which I used in micropub-express.