Build the blog

Turn your Markdown files into a full-featured blog with zero hassle 🚀

📑 Table of Contents

• ✨ Features
• 🎯 MVP Goal
• 🚀 Quick Start
• 📂 Project Structure
• 🖼 Example
• ⚙️ Configuration
• 🛣 Roadmap
• 🤝 Contributing
• ⚡ Plugin Hooks (Developers)
• 📜 License

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✨ Features

• ✅ Write posts in Markdown
• ✅ Zero Config – start instantly
• ✅ 🎨 Custom Themes (minimal, modern, dark, etc.)
• ✅ Custom plugins support
• ✅ 📦 Static Export for deployment (Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages)
• ✅ 🌍 Beginner-friendly open source project

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🎯 MVP Goal

Deliver a fast, hackable blogging framework where developers can:

• 📝 Write in Markdown
• 🎨 Apply themes
• ⚡ Extend with plugins
• 🏷️ Add tags to posts
• 🚀 Publish with one command

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🚀 Quick start

🔧 Requirements

• Node.js v18+
• npm/yarn/pnpm

⚡ Install & Run

# Create a new blog
npx zeno-blog init mysite
cd mysite

# Build the blog
npx zeno-blog build

# Start the development server
npx zeno-blog serve 3000

Open 👉 http://localhost:3000

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📂 Project Structure

zeno/
├── bin/
│   └── zeno.js
├── src/
│   ├── builder.js
│   ├── cli.js
│   ├── config.js
│   └── server.js
├── plugins/
│   └── popup.js
├── themes/
│   └── default/
└── posts/
    └── first-post.md

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🖼 Example

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title: "What is Zeno?"
date: "2025-09-19"
tags: "first post, blog"
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Zeno is a plugin-first Markdown blog framework built in JavaScript. It allows you to write in Markdown, apply themes, extend with plugins, and publish your blog with one command.

👉 Preview (Clazzy theme):

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⚙️ Configuration

themes/default/
├── components/
│   ├── navbar.html
│   └── posts.html
├── index.html
├── post.html
└── style.css

• components/ — Reusable components for your pages.
• components/posts.html - Individual post template.
• index.html — Home page template.
• post.html — Individual post template.
• style.css — Theme styles.

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🛣 Roadmap

• 🌗 Search Feature
• 🏷️ Tag archive pages
• 🔍 Filtering posts by tags
• 🎨✨ Advanced theme customization

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🤝 Contributing

💡 Contributions are welcome!

• 1. Fork the repo
• 2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-feature)
• 3. Commit and push your changes
• 4. Submit a pull request

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⚡ Plugin Hooks (Developers)

Zeno provides plugin hooks so developers can extend functionality:

• onMarkdownParse(markdown, frontmatter) — Modify Markdown before rendering.
• onRenderHTML(html, frontmatter) — Modify HTML after rendering.
• onPostBuild(distDir) — Hook after the blog is built.

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📜 License

Zeno is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE

🔥 Start blogging the easy way with Zeno today!