taitan

Taitan is a RESTful markdown to HTML supplier of pages for bawang and styrdokument-bawang.

Taitan(タイタン) is romaji for Titan.

API

Retrieve a markdown document.

GET /:path

Response

An example response to GET /om-oss could look like this:

{
  "title": "Om Oss",
  "slug": "om-oss",
  "url": "/om-oss",
  "updated_at": "2022-11-06T02:04:58Z",
  "image": "https://example.com/static/hej.png",
  "message": "hej",
  "body": "<h1>...",
  "sidebar": "<ul>...",
  "sort": 1,
  "expanded": false,
  "anchors": [
    {"id": "id", "value": "asdf", "level": 1},
    {"id": "foo-baz", "value": "foo baz", "level": 2}
  ],
  "nav": [
    {
      "slug": "/faq",
      "title": "FAQ",
      "sort": 2
    },
    {
      "slug": "/foo",
      "title": "joke",
      "sort": 3,
      "expanded": true,
      "nav": [{
        "slug": "/foo/bar",
        "title": "baz",
        "sort": null
      }]
    },
    {
      "slug": "/om-oss",
      "title": "Om Oss",
      "sort": 1,
      "active": true
    }
  ]
}

Some notable behaviours:

• A nav item with expanded set to true is equivalent to that item containing a nested nav.
• If the main url parameter is a nested path, that path will always appear in the nav-tree with active set to true, and with all its ancestor nav-nodes having expanded set to true.
• anchors will contain a list of all heading tags in the page, with level indicating weather it is a <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc.

Running

Environment variables

Name	Description
PORT	The port to listen to requests on
TOKEN	GitHub Personal Access Token used for authorization when pulling the content repository. (Only needed if the content repo is private)
CONTENT_URL	The repository to get content from
CONTENT_DIR	Directory to serve contents from. Setting this disables the automatic fetching using git and makes the TOKEN and CONTENT_URL unused.
DARKMODE_URL	URL to the darkmode system, or true or false to use that value instead of sending an http request.
DEFAULT_LANG	The default language code that will be used for responses if a lang parameter is not passed in an API request.

Flags

Name	Description
-v	Print info messages
-vv	Print more info messages
-w	Reload the contents when they change on disk

Docker

If you have docker installed, you can also run the repo using docker compose up --build

Make sure to copy .env.example to .env first, and populate TOKEN with you personal github token if needed (if your content repo is private).

Note that CONTENT_DIR will not work with the current compose.yml file.

Not Docker

Requires: golang, git

Minimal setup:

1. Run go mod vendor
2. Set relevant env-variables
3. run go run .

Webhooks

taitan has two webhooks intended to keep it's content updated.

• Any request with the header X-Github-Event set to push will cause taitan to refetch the content-repo. Meant to be called from a workflow in the content repo that is run on new commits.
• Any request with the header X-Darkmode-Event set to updated will cause taitan to refetch the darkmode status from DARKMODE_URL.

Content repo structure

Taitan uses path-based routing. I.e. if your content repo contains a directory foo with a subdirectory bar, you will get the content of that subdir by navigating to <taitan url>/foo/bar.

Every directory has to contain a meta.toml, a sidebar.md and a body.md file, the content of which are described below.

Directories starting with a . is ignored by taitan. (eg. .github).

meta.toml

The purpose of this file is to provide meta-data that the frontend might or might not need to render a page.

The meta.toml files can contain the following fields:

Name	Data type	Mandatory	Description
Title	string	yes	The title of the page
Image	string	no	Link to an image that can be used by the frontend in any way it wants
Message	string	no	Specifies a string that is sent to the frontend to use as it wants
Sort	int	no	A key appearing in the nav attribute intended for the frontend to use for the page when sorting navigation menues.
Expanded	boolean	no	Specifies whether all the children of of a an directory should be always be expanded when it is included in the nav
Sensitive	string	no	Weather the whole page should be hidden when DARMODE_URL returns true.

sidebar.md

A markdown file that will contain content intended to render as a sidebar for a route.

body.md

This is the file that will contain the html content that will be served for a route. It is written in markdown, and the generated page will be very similar to how the markdown is rendered.

Darkmode (hiding info during reception)

taitan has support for hiding some content during reception mode by surrounding text with {{ if .reception -}} {{- else -}} {{- end }} .

Example:

some text

{{ if .reception -}}
  nothing to see here :)
{{- else -}}
  secret text
{{- end }}

more text

When DARMODE_URL returns true (during reception), this will render as:

some text

nothing to see here :)

more text

If it returns false (the rest of the year), it will render as:

some text

secret text

more text

Public domain

I hereby release this code into the public domain.