Using Ghost as an NPM module

You can now use Ghost as a NPM module!

1. Include Ghost as a dependency in your package.json file

"dependencies": {
 "ghost": "0.4.2"
}

2. Run npm install to install Ghost.

3. Include the Ghost module where desired and then invoke it to start ghost.

var ghost = require('ghost');
ghost();

At this point Ghost should be running!

By default Ghost will use the content/ directory that exists inside the module. To modify where Ghost's content/ directory should exist you can pass in a JSON object into the ghost() function. For sake of easy maintenance you can also pass in a JSON file:

ghost({
config: path.join(__dirname, 'config.js')
});

An example config.js is based off the config.example.js.

The configuration property that changes the content/ location is:

paths: {
 contentPath: path.join(__dirname, '/content/'),
}

Modify that to change where the content/ directory should exist.

NOTE: If you change the location of the content/ directory Ghost expects to find the same directory structure that exists in the module. To get started copy the default content directory structure as the basis for your custom content/ location.