Build a Lit SSR Blog

Build Glasspoint Notes with Lit SSR, Express, Pico.css, SQLite, cookie sessions, owned post CRUD, search, password recovery, and Render deploy notes.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 12
  • Stack TypeScript, Express, Lit SSR, Pico.css, SQLite, cookie sessions, bcrypt

How this project works

Glasspoint Notes is an original teaching blog in twelve complete snapshots. Clone once and run any numbered folder without rebuilding earlier stages.

The path starts with Express and Lit templates, adds Pico layouts, then introduces a SQLite file per snapshot. Later parts add sessions, media, ownership, pagination, search, reset tokens, and deploy notes.

Snapshots 4–12 seed ada@example.com and grace@example.com with password123.

Each stage keeps its own DATABASE_PATH SQLite file (./glasspoint.db) so you can reset by deleting the database file. No Docker is required.

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Parts in order

Work through the parts in sequence. Each lesson explains the ideas, then points you to a runnable GitHub snapshot.