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Change the way you log with LogChimp ๐Ÿต

Keep customers in the loop โžฐ about your product with LogChimp.

Description

LogChimp by CodeCarrot is modern way to create changelog for your product, no need to learn any language or tool to use it, it's just like publishing a blog.

LogChimp website screenshot

At the core it is powered ๐ŸŒŸ by Jekyll and LogChimp default theme and the awesome ๐Ÿ‘“ part is, it's free and open-source.

Features

  • ๐Ÿ†“ Free and Open Source
  • ๐ŸŽ€ Branding
  • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ง Team management
  • ๐ŸŒˆ Permalinked changelogs
  • ๐Ÿ“‚ Markdown supported
  • ๐Ÿ“› Badges
  • ๐Ÿ“… Relative date
  • ๐Ÿค– Scheduled publishing
  • ๐Ÿ“ฐ RSS feeds
  • โœ… Tested
  • ๐Ÿ”จ Maintained
  • โœจ more features (coming soon)

Why?

You must have created a changelog.md file in your repository which looks quite boring ๐Ÿ’ค or the the GitHub releases...

Old way of changelog

Now let's see ๐Ÿ˜ฒ how it looks like with LogChimp

Jasper Logchimp changelog

How to get started?

It's time to ditch changelog.md files and get started with LogChimp by cloning this repository.

git clone https://gitlab.com/codecarrot/logchimp/logchimp-starter-kit
cd logchimp-starter-kit
bundle exec jekyll serve

and you are good to go ๐Ÿ”ฐ.

Links

  1. Website: https://logchimp.now.sh/
  2. Demo: https://mittalyashu.gitlab.io/jasper-changelog/
  3. LogChimp Starter kit: https://gitlab.com/codecarrot/logchimp/logchimp-starter-kit

This blog is originally published at CodeCarrot Blogs

Top comments (3)

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Ben Sinclair

It's hard to tell what logchimp is. This post says the same thing as the logchimp website but that's pretty much no information.

Is it just a static site generator with a bundled template?

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Yashu Mittal

I will update the post by providing more information. Really appreciate your feedback though ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป.

Yes, it is a built with Jekyll + LogChimp theme

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Yashu Mittal

Let me know if you have any question/feedback regarding LogChimp.