Val Town Blog

A blog written, developed and hosted on val.town.

Each article on this blog is contained single val, with a #blog tag.

See this example article.

// #blog
// title: Example Post

import { article } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/article";
import { extractValInfo } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/extractValInfo";
import { html } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/html?v=5";

export async function examplePost(req: Request) {
  const { author, name } = extractValInfo(import.meta.url);
  return html(await article(author, name));
}

Each of these post work on it's own.

This val is able to:

• list them with the /v1/search api (with a #blog query)
  • post with different author than the owner of this val will be filtered out
  • only public vals will be listed
• render the readme of those vals using remark (with github styling)

This process run each time a user visit the web endpoint, so the blog is always up to date.

You can get your own instance of the blog by just forking this val.