A Note on Blogs and Databases

Although GitBook has some improvements to make before becoming a good tool for collaborating with another person, it still works as a blog hosting solution. If you are using GitBook, you can put your blog on the Web without using Heroku or manually setting up hosting. However if you are hosting your own blog, you might consider using Javascript and/or Python to store your blog contents in a SQL database.

For this project, we initially considered PostgreSQL as the database to use. So far, most of the tutorials I reviewed recommended Python frameworks such as Django and Flask, just as Javascript tutorials recommended Express, for example.