I built a boilerplate thing because handlebars.
Normally, I do a lot of maintenance, and, historically would not have chosen to use handlebars in a project; this is an excercise in actually starting a project using handlebars.
If you like, use this as a starting point, or use it as a reference for starting your own backbone/handlebars project. It will definitely save you the pain/suffering of setting one up yourself.
Edit posts.json to add your blog posts. Use markup. Escape quotes.
because_handlbars> npm install
because_handlbars> bower install
Start a server
because_handlbars> node server.js
Check out the post-conversion branch to get an idea of how the conversion works.