Cool scala markdown wiki engine

Cool scala markdown wiki engine Pub Share

Light markdown wiki engine you can embed in any JVM app.

Some of the features of this wiki engine:

Markdown language used to easily create content.
Bootstrap used to create nice content
classic wiki link syntax with customizable extensions
authorization, authentication, different levels of visibility
user management (your app can have many users)
runs on the JVM
Java compatible and embedded/embeddable in any Java product
mongoDB for storage, customizable persistance
WikiPath, surfing the wiki content via built-in wiki-path capability (see this blog: Wiki Domain Models and Racer Kids)
domain/category definintion
engine driven by the category: guides creation of topics, their properties and relationships
scripts - there is possibility to embed runnable scala and Javascript scripts in the wiki topics - these scripts are executed when the page is displayed and add complex behavior to the pages, such as displaying the current number of members in a club etc

Read further about wikis and the syntax extensions used:

Some technologies that made this engine possible:

The Markdown language was created to simplify creating web content.

Read this blog for more details on some of the more interesting R&D topics used in this wiki engine:

domain/category definintion
WikiPath, surfing the wiki content via built-in wiki-path capability (see this blog: Wiki Domain Models and Racer Kids)
engine driven by the category: guides creation of topics, their properties and relationships
scala scripts - there is possibility to embed runnable scala and Javascript scripts in the wiki topics - these scripts are executed when the page is displayed and add complex behavior to the pages, such as displaying the current number of members in a club etc

Project is available on GitHub.

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By: Razie | 2014-11-28 .. 2022-10-22 | Tags: admin

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