Skein

Skein is a Node.js static site generator developed by Emma Kuo and running on http://notenoughneon.com since July 2015. It uses html+microformats as its native data store.

Features

Articles, notes, photos, replies, likes, reposts
Tags
Webmentions
Self hosted oauth and indieauth endpoint
Micropub endpoint
oEmbeds Youtube, Soundcloud, Twitter content
Publishes to Amazon S3

Code

Skein is in development. Use at your own risk.

https://github.com/notenoughneon/skein

The microformats library used by Skein has been released as a separate module on NPM, and is more suitable for general use:

https://github.com/notenoughneon/mf-obj

Architecture

Skein uses PURR to use published HTML as its native data store. Earlier in development, sqlite was used as a cache, but it was abandoned due to issues getting out of sync with published content. See database-antipattern. The oauth endpoint issues stateless JWT tokens.

The server process hosts micropub and webmention endpoints, and is designed to run an an EC2 instance. On receiving a webmention or new post, content is regenerated and published to S3.

The publishing layer is modular, and S3 can be switched out for git or static file hosting backends. The static file backend is used to run an end-to-end test suite.