Lately I’ve been doing a lot of development in the wonderful server side JavaScript language; NodeJS. And so far out of all the play that I’ve been doing, I’ve managed to create myself a micro-blogging platform that is fairly easy to deploy and lightweight as well, weighing in at only 380kb.
So today I happily introduce SlimNode. Making use of flat files to provide a fairly secure blogging platform that you can re-theme easily with Jade, and can push articles to using Git (Which means using SSH so very secure).
I’ll probably look at extending it sometime in the future, but for now it makes for a VERY easy way to get a site off the ground. I’m tempted to make a CMS based off the idea behind it, which makes for rapid iteration of content.
Enjoy!
PS. If you need help deploying it. I recommend using Heroku or AppFog, unless you own your own VPS. I’ll even provide some help setting you up if you want.