# bucketsio/buckets

[DEPRECATED] Manage content better.

Repository: https://github.com/bucketsio/buckets
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/buckets
Homepage: https://assembly.com/buckets
Language: CoffeeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-05-31T04:57:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4513, "days_push": 4112, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1050, forks 145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:22.875261+00:00)

## What it is
Buckets is a Node.js-based content management system for building dynamic websites, installable as an NPM module and backed by MongoDB. It is explicitly deprecated and its last release was in 2015.

## Use cases
- build a dynamic website with node.js
- self-host a simple cms
- manage website content without wordpress
- deploy a node.js cms to heroku
- build a site with mongodb as the backend

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy Buckets site already in production
- you want to study an older CoffeeScript-based Node CMS

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - the project is deprecated and unmaintained since 2015
- you need security updates or community support
- you want a modern Node.js CMS

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, templating, static-site-generator
- domain: web-development, cms, self-hosted
- platform: -
- tags: cms, content-management, deprecated, mongodb, coffeescript, heroku, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- bucketsio/buckets (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.875261+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:00:17.170791+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bucketsio/buckets (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.875261+00:00, sha c572852e90c4)
  - homepage: https://assembly.com/buckets (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:37.361305+00:00, sha 2a5d8a67c5b5)
  - site_page: https://assembly.com/docs/getting-started/welcome (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:37.374384+00:00, sha 0a2645d3fc7c)
  - site_page: https://assembly.com/docs/api-reference/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:37.375959+00:00, sha 123f858064bb)
  - site_page: https://assembly.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:37.370726+00:00, sha 7140663008af)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.