looking for lightweight node blog

[John Taber]

I would like to replace redirecting from our node site over to a blogspot blog (the blog is mostly used for posting information articles rather than getting comments or being a major content / ad / ... site - rather more like howtonode is)

Since howtonode is using "wheat" - is that a good choice ?  Wheat uses github as a data store - would it be hard to use sqlite or mongo instead ? 

or is there a more lightweight lib ? 

[Tim Caswell]

Wheat was never meant to be a framework, but rather an example of how to write a custom blog in node.  The code is pretty old now, but should still serve as a good place to get some ideas.  Also I changed it a while back to work on connect instead of the obsolete node-router framework.  I would recommend starting from scratch using express.  A simple database backed blog is an ideal project for learning how to make your own site.

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[Florian Traverse]

We have created pullrequest.org (s french developer oriented  blog) a week ago, and have chosen to use node-yabe which is small yet smart and actively developed. It is heavily inspired by Wheat and he extracted some code coming from it, and the genral strcute too. The author of node-yabe, Mickael Daniel, currently uses a modified version of Wheat for his own blog (http://blog.mklog.fr, I guess he plans to move to yabe next)

Our first guess was to use Wheat, but we weren't comfortable with haml and prefered jqtpl notably, and we wanted to make some back-office in order to help using the git repository (pulling, etc.) and writing articles. Wheat is  fine but not everything was clear for us while reading the sources, which is more the case ion yabe.

Node-yabe just runs on the filesystem without relying on git, but we are working on a node-gitteh integration (if possible more like a plugin, so we plan to implement a plugin system) and mickael is working on a back office using Ace to write articles ( Michael is in our city, and we just met him some weeks ago, and shared our point of view)

By the way, Wheat is a pretty good blog and we were really happy to find it at first :)

2011/4/27 Tim Caswell <t...@creationix.com>