Raneto is a Knowledgebase platform for Node.js that uses static Markdown files to power the knowledgebase.
Raneto can be called a “static site generator” of sorts as it doesn’t require a database. All
of your content is stored in the content folder in Markdown (.md) files and the entire
knowledgebase structure and content is generated by Raneto. This is good because it’s:
- Simple: You can create and manage an entire knowledge base using your favorite text editor
- Flat: Raneto is a “flat file” CMS, meaning no database woe’s, no MySQL queries, nothing
- Fast: Raneto is seriously lightweight and doesn’t use a database, making it super fast
Raneto also features:
- Mustache for easy templating
- Responsive default template (powered by Bootstrap)
- Highlight.js code syntax highlighting
- Full-text search powered by Lunr
- GitHub Flavored Markdown
Install
- Download the latest version of Raneto from the releases page
- Create a new directory where you would like to run the app, and un-zip the package to that location
- Fire up a Terminal, the Node Command Prompt or shell and change directory to the root of the Raneto application (where app.js and config.js are)
- run
npm installto install the node dependencies - To start Raneto, run
npm start - Visit http://localhost:3000 in your web browserNote: When running on a live site you’ll want to set the PORT env variable to 80 so you don’t need to add
:3000to the URL.
