Mango Umbrella

Mango Umbrella is a self-evolving recursive umbrella system that powers Mango Umbrella.

The umbrella has a goal of making it easy to organize and demonstrate the things I craft. It is hugely inspired by Devine Lu Linvega's amazing work on XXIIVV.

Universes

At the highest level, umbrella has a concept of universes. Each universe represents a product. There are current two universes: Mango Baby, and Umbrella Universe. Not all products have a universe. Different universes might also have unique features:

• Umbrella Universe has posts. Each post is associated with a top-level node.
• Mango Baby has release notes.

Nodes

Each universe also supports two levels of nodes. Nodes can be public or private.

For example, Mango Baby's Support page is a node. Icons is a sub-node under Resources.

Client

Mango Umbrella also has an in-house iOS/macOS client app that manages the content.

Roadmap

• Support native node references in markdown, and have linked nodes auto updated.
• Show linked nodes.
• Support Issues and move task management to Umbrella.
• Associate posts with top-level nodes.
• Support universes on the node level.
• Less restrictions on sub-node slug uniqueness. When querying a sub node, query all nodes with the same slug. If there is a matched sub-node with the same parent, use that. Otherwise ignoring the parent, redirect to the page with matched parent slug.
• Move markdown rendering to server side. Choice of markdown parser: goldmark. Reasons:
  1. It's adopted by gohugo.io
  2. It supports custom extensions.
• Support custom <figure> syntax for images with captions. This is done via a custom goldmark plugin open sourced as goldemark-figure
• Support image management on the client.