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Manage your website’s content using a Trello board. Watch it in action here.

Deploy with Now

  1. Install Now: https://zeit.co/now
  2. Find your public Trello board’s ID (e.g. mQ6WXDAQ)
  3. Run, passing your board ID: now RoyalIcing/lokum -e TRELLO_BOARD_ID=mQ6WXDAQ

Live online preview

You can preview your boards here: https://lokum.icing.space — just paste the URL of your public Trello board.

Download a website zip

Static HTML

https://us-central1-royal-icing.cloudfunctions.net/serveWebFromTrelloBoard/YOUR_BOARD_ID.zip
https://us-central1-royal-icing.cloudfunctions.net/serveWebFromTrelloBoard/YOUR_BOARD_ID.next.zip

How to make a website board in Trello

Lokum uses the lofi format of hashtagging text. Any trailing #hashtags are added as booleans, and any trailing #hashtag: any text you like become key-value pairs.

Create a board in Trello, and make it public.

Add a list for each page

  • The list’s name will become the page’s title
  • The #path tag pair lets you specify the absolute path for this page.
  • The #class tag pair lets you specify custom classes for this page.

Add cards to each page list for the content on the page

  • A card’s title becomes an <h2>.
  • The card’s description is parsed as markdown, and follows the <h2>.
  • Attached images become <img> above the content

Links

  • Use the #link tag pair to make the subheading link out to a URL.

Main heading

  • Add #primary to the subheading you want to make a <h1> instead of an <h2>. Similarly #tertiary can be used for <h3>.

Posts

  • Use the #slug tag pair to specify a child-page. The content stays part of the parent page, but also appears solely as a page at its slug’s path. The <h2> then links out to the child-page.

Navigation

  • Add a card with name #nav to specify that the cards following should be together grouped in a <nav>.

Article

  • Add a card with name #article to specify that the cards following should be each an <article>.

Metatags, CSS, etc

  • Add a card with name #meta to add <meta> and <link> tags from the card’s description as HTML to the <head>.

Other lists can also be added for additional behaviour

Share on all pages

  • A list named #all will have its cards used across all pages, e.g. shared meta tags.
  • Use a card named #above for HTML that will be added above every page.

Path redirects

  • A list with name #redirects
  • Each card must have #from and #to tag pairs for the original (from) path and destination (to) path for a redirect.

Reloading with Google Authenticator

Lokum supports live-reloading of a site with the latest content from the source Trello board:

  1. Generate a secret, and scan the QR code into your Google Authenticator app.
  2. Use that secret as environment variable RELOAD_SECRET (-e RELOAD_SECRET=XXX with Now).
  3. Visit /-reload/:latest-token to reload with fresh data from Trello.

API

startServerForBoard(boardID, { seo = true, reloadSecret, host, port })

  • boardID (String): The ID (not full URL) of the Trello Board to use as a content source
  • seo (Boolean): Whether to enable a /robots.txt route
  • reloadSecret (String): The OTP secret
  • host (String): Domain to use as host, usually fine to omit
  • port (String): Port to start the server on
  • Returns a Promise which resolves once the content has loaded and the server is ready
import { startServerForBoard } from 'lokum'

const boardID = 'mQ6WXDAQ' // From public Trello board https://trello.com/b/mQ6WXDAQ/burntcaramel-com

startServerForBoard(boardID, { port: process.env.PORT })