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creationix/wheat
Wheat is a blog engine for coders written in node.JS
Wheat turns a git repo of Markdown files into a blog, rendering articles on the fly from git history. It was the engine behind howtonode.org circa 2010–2013. A historical curiosity more than a viable choice today.
Uses git as the data store, so you get versioning and history for free. The concept was genuinely ahead of its time — static-site generators later made this pattern mainstream. Minimal surface area; the whole engine fits in a handful of files.
Last touched in 2018, and realistically abandoned for years before that — this is a museum piece. Node.js ecosystem has moved completely past its dependency assumptions. No documentation beyond 'look at this other repo.' There are a dozen better-maintained alternatives (Astro, Eleventy, Hugo) for anyone actually wanting to ship a dev blog today.