I have been working on migrating a site that I designed off of HTML with lots of javascript into a node.js app. The site has very little in the way of user interaction and mainly just displays dynamic data out to the users. This data is pulled from a number of sources but because it’s pulled client-side it’s terrible for SEO (I was young and should have known better).

One of the issues I encountered when migrating this site is that they have a gallery page that pulls data from a SmugMug album. When this site was originally written, SmugMug only had an XML based API and to make it so that JavaScript would play nice, I had to write a php wrapper that would pull down the XML and re-host it on the same domain. I sure as heck wasn’t going to tarnish my pretty little rewrite with PHP. So I tried to find a node module for SmugMug, and much to my surprise, couldn’t. And with that, Humblemug was born.