It needs no formal installation and is self-contained- Letting you place as many installations you want in as many different folders as you need.
It has a pleasantly low footprint in both size and bandwidth, making hosting on slow networks easy. A page without images will use just about 3.5 KB of bandwidth.¹ AfterCoffee stores everything locally and uses no database- guaranteeing portability if you need to move your build around.
- Drag-and-Drop Installation
- Works out-of-the-box, plugins included. Updating your build and installing new plugins is as simple as overwriting.
- Uses relative everything, letting you place it anywhere on your website, in as many different directories as you want.
- Lightweight Web Editor
- Edit, create, and delete existing and new pages, using native HTML form editing for increased accessibility.
- Works using Markdown, Markdown Extra, and placing HTML tags as you please.
- Plugins can document and demonstrate their custom markdown in the editor
- Translation and i18n
- Simple translation format, allowing any custom one to be made with ease
- Default Languages:
- English
- Japanese
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Small but Ready to Grow
- AfterCoffee only comes with the bare essentials, allowing full control to how your build performs
- Plugins can extend features to infinity and beyond
- SEO Ready
- Full, automatically generated meta tags
- Open Graph ready
- Includes image thumbnail support
- Page Indexing
- Shrinks disk I/O
- Simple JSON structure
- Generates automatically
- Natively Hidden/Unlisted Pages
- Does not show itself in the directory
noindexfor robots to skip indexing
- Simple drag-and-drop plugin system
- Default Plugins:
- customMarkdown
- Enables ==highlighting==
- A starting point to make your own custom Markdown rules
- dateFormat
- Formats YYYY-MM-DD dates to human-readable formats
- Formatted based on the
dateFormatsetting
- directoryList
- Adds a dropdown menu of all posts to your pages
- Named after a song I was listening to at the time
To tune colors in the default CSS, a Windows Terminal-like structure is used. To quickly turn Windows Terminal theme JSON into valid CSS, use this Regex Replace-with:
Replace "([a-z]*)": "(#\w*)",? with --$1: $2;\n
Remember to give AfterCoffee appropriate write permissions, or else critical functions such as Auth and the Editor will not function.