This morning I tried to rebuild my instapaper clone for Nextcloud from PHP and plain javascript to React, but I needed to move the compiled javascript and CSS files into a custom directory structure for the nextcloud app release. I’m using create-react-app and react-app-rewired and apparently there is no simple way to modify the output directory „build“ to something different. To avoid additional tools and steps in my process, I decided to write a piece of javascript and execute it with node after building my app via npm.

After installing NodeJS and creating a basic web application with Express I wanted to get deeper into the world of node and build another simple, but useable web app. Because I like to blog, I decided to build a blog. You can check out the result at https://github.com/MoriTanosuke/blode/ and clone it. I decided to stick with express and jade as my templating engine, because I already now how to use those.