# Wheat

Node.js blogging engine that reads a git repository of Markdown articles and presents them as a website.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/wheat/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/creationix/wheat
- docs: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/README.markdown

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Tim Caswell
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2011
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: cms
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: npm install wheat

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2016-03-31

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1350
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 27
- contributors: 6
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 29
- dependentPackages: 1

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/creationix/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/creationix/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/package.json (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://registry.npmjs.org/wheat/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/wheat/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/creationix/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/creationix/wheat/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/wheat (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/wheat (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/wheat (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Wheat is a blogging engine for Node.js that reads a git repository of Markdown articles and presents them as a website. It is published on npm as `wheat` and installed with `npm install wheat`. The [README](https://github.com/creationix/wheat/blob/master/README.markdown) is the project's documentation.

## Worth knowing

Rendering Graphviz graphs from DOT files on the fly needs Graphviz installed separately, as the README states.

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