Building a Blog with Phoenix and NimblePublisher

Introduction

Building a blog doesn’t have to be complicated. With Phoenix Framework and NimblePublisher, you can create a blazing-fast, maintainable blog that compiles your markdown posts at build time.

Why NimblePublisher?

NimblePublisher is a minimal filesystem-based publishing engine with support for:

• Markdown parsing and syntax highlighting
• Fast compilation - all posts are compiled at build time
• Type-safe - posts are validated structs
• Simple - just drop markdown files in a directory

Getting Started

First, add NimblePublisher to your dependencies:

{:nimble_publisher, "~> 1.0"}

Then define your post structure and configure the publisher in your context module. It’s that simple!

The Result

You get a blog that:

• Loads instantly (no database queries!)
• Has beautiful syntax highlighting
• Is easy to maintain
• Scales effortlessly

Check out the source code of this blog to see it in action!