# creationix/wheat

Wheat is a blog engine for coders written in node.JS

Repository: https://github.com/creationix/wheat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wheat
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2018-11-05T16:30:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5998, "days_push": 2858, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1352, forks 122 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:28.358700+00:00)

## What it is
Wheat is a blog engine for coders written in Node.js that reads a git repository of markdown articles and renders them as a website. It supports on-the-fly rendering of Graphviz DOT graphs and powers howtonode.org.

## Use cases
- run a developer blog from a git repo of markdown files
- publish markdown articles as a static website
- render graphviz diagrams inside blog posts
- self-host a coding blog on node.js

## When to choose
- you want a git-based markdown blog on Node.js
- you need Graphviz graph rendering in posts

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project
- you want a modern static site generator with themes

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: static-site-generator, markdown, templating
- domain: web-development, documentation, cms
- platform: -
- tags: blog-engine, git-based, markdown-blog, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- creationix/wheat (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.358700+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 2026-08-30T04:42:08.577397+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/creationix/wheat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:28.358700+00:00, sha d1f7b6d0e0fe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.