A beautiful open source comments for your blog

Sebastian Korotkiewicz — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:42:36 +0000

You don't need a server to host your comment system, you can easily host Kucos on Vercel and database on Mongo Atlas where 500mb is for free (for comments it is a lot space :)).

Kucos is focused on complete user privacy and data security, that' s why commenting is completely anonymous, no account is needed.

Kucos is written entirely in JavaScript, backend in NodeJS with MongoDB (Mongoose) and frontend in pure JS. Source of Kucos can be found on GitHub kucosjs/kucos, I invite you to test the demo on this page, also I'm happy to see pull requests with your fixes or new features :)

A simple Markdown is also available, here you can check out the available Markdown.

Available functions:

Writing new comments
Reply to comments
Fast quote comments (select text and click Reply)
Hidding/showing children comments
Voting on comments
Markdown text formatting
Adding Kudos under post
Edit own comments within an hour
Simple moderation of comments by the website owner Screenshot
Checking whether a comment is spam. (Akismet)
Fast and lightweight code highlighting in comments

Add Kucos to your website

To add Kucos to your website you only need to add two additional lines.

<div id="comments"></div>
<script src="http://localhost:3000/min/kucos.min.js"></script>

Installation

Installation of Kucos is very simple, you need to download the source code then rename the config.example.js file to config.js and fill it in correctly.

$ git clone https://github.com/kucosjs/kucos
$ mv config.example.js config.js
$ vim config.js

Now all you have to do is npm install, run the command gulp and node index.js to start the server.

$ npm install
$ gulp
$ node index.js

DEV Community: Kucos

A beautiful open source comments for your blog

Available functions:

Add Kucos to your website

Installation