About

What is gdb

gdb(github discussion blog), host blog content on GitHub, using GitHub Discussions as CMS for our Markdown content and then eventually using GitHub API to retrieve the content.

GitHub Discussion

Setup

• Enabled discussion feature in my repository.
• Deleted all default labels.
• Deleted all default categories and sections.
• Created new category with type “Announcement”, named “Release” respective to release posts.

You can adjust the section and categories yourself.

Fetch script

For the fetching part extra build step for Astro, and here’s how it goes:

"scripts": {
  "fetch": "node scripts/fetch-discussions.mjs",
},

For the script, you can found in /scripts/fetch-discussions.mjs

Config

Change your website config in src/config.ts, such as:

export const SITE: Site = {
  website: "",
  base: "",
  author: "",
  desc: "",
  title: "",
  lightAndDarkMode: true,
  postPerPage: 5,
  scheduledPostMargin: 15 * 60 * 1000, // 15 minutes
};

export const ROUTES = []

...

Giscus

By default, giscus is enabled. If necessary, please modify the giscus.config.mjs configuration yourself.

{
  repo: '',
  enable: true,
  lang: "zh-CN",
  theme: "transparent_dark",
  inputPosition: "bottom",
  emitMetadata: 0,
  reactionsEnabled: 1,
  lazyLoading: true,
}

For more configuration content, please go to Giscus.

Please ensure that your repo has installed the Giscus App.

Deploy

Automatic synchronization with Gitubb Wokflow, detail in .github/workflows/discussions.yml

If you have adjusted the category name of the Discussion, please modify the env variable too.

Others

My blog theme source: AstroPaper, of course, you can freely adjust it to the theme you want.