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SupaComments

🔥 This Project will be renamed and you can expect some bigger features soon. (Updated: 16/08/2022)

SupaComments

⚡ A blazing fast, lightweight, and open source comment system for your static website, blogs

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🚀 Demo

You can visit the Below demo blog post to see the SupaComments in action.

https://supacomments.vercel.app/demo/

🪄 Lightweight

SupaComments js bundle is less than 25kb and CSS bundle is less than 5kb.

SupaComments

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📦 Requirements

Static Blog or Website

✨ Installation and Usage

  • Clone the Repo
git clone https://github.com/mcnaveen/supacomments.git
  • cd into the directory
cd supacomments
  • Install dependencies
yarn install
  • Configure the environment variables
cp .env.example .env
  • In the Supabase Dashboard create a new project and database.
  • Table name should be: comments
  • Make sure you have the same table structure like below.
id - int8
name - text
email - text
postURL - text
comment - text
created_at - timestamp
show - boolean
  • Default value for show should be true

Table Structure

Example

SUPACOMMENT_SUPABASE_URL=https://xxxxxxxxxxxx.supabase.co
SUPACOMMENT_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Once you have the environment variables set, run the following command to start the build process.

yarn build
  • This will create a comments.js & comments.css files under the pubic/build directory.

  • Copy and paste the two files to root of your static website or blog.

🖊️ Usage

  • To import the comments.js & comments.css file, paste the below code before </head> closing tag.
<script src="./comments.js">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./comments.css" />
  • Then, paste the Below code where you want to show the comments.
  • Change the yoursite.com to your website URL. (No https:// or http:// or / at the end)
  • Example: mysupacomments.com
<div id="comments" data-url="yoursite.com" clickToLoad="false"></div>
  • Optionally, You can set the clickToLoad attribute to true to disable autoloading of comments, the User has to click Load Comments button. (Default is false)

Now, If you open your static website or blog, you will see the comments section like below.

Comments Example

✅ TODO/Features

  • Ability to add comment section based on div element
  • Click to load user's comments
  • Add native styling instead of Tailwind CSS
  • Add Docker support
  • Add Reply to comment feature
  • Add ability to edit and delete comment
  • Add ability to add comment as logged in user or anonymous user
  • Add Admin Panel for managing comments (As Monorepo)

These are the planned features, if you have any feature request, please open an feature request on Github

📚 Contributions

Checkout the Contributing Guide

Breaking Changes

⚠️ Use it with caution, Breaking changes ahead!

Disclaimer

You can add features and fixes but please don't claim this project as your own.

🙏 Additional Information

This project uses Supabase for the database, Svelte for the frontend and Tailwind CSS for the styling and Demo is built with Next.js

💚 Message

I hope you find this project useful. If you have any questions, please create an issue.

License

Copyright (c) 2022 SupaComments