diff --git a/src/routes/blog.js b/src/routes/blog.js
index cadb59a..2c07097 100644
--- a/src/routes/blog.js
+++ b/src/routes/blog.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const { Router } = require('express');
 const { marked } = require('marked');
 const matter = require('gray-matter');
@@ -7,34 +7,35 @@ const logger = require('../logger');
 
 const router = new Router();
 
-const postList = () => {
-	const files = fs.readdirSync('blogposts');
+async function getPostsList() {
+	const files = await fs.readdir('blogposts');
 
-	// We get the info for each blogpost, ignoring the ones starting with _
-	const posts = files
-		.filter(filename => !filename.startsWith('_'))
-		.filter(filename => filename.endsWith('.md')) // Ignores other files/folders
-		.map((filename) => {
-			const slug = filename.replace('.md', '');
-			const rawPost = fs.readFileSync(
-				path.join('blogposts', `${filename}`),
-				'utf-8'
-			);
-			const { data: postInfo } = matter(rawPost);
-			return {
-				slug,
-				postInfo
-			};
-		});
+	const filteredFiles = files
+		.filter(filename => !filename.startsWith('_')) // Ignore files starting with _
+		.filter(filename => filename.endsWith('.md')); // Ignores files that don't end with .md
+
+	const posts = await Promise.all(filteredFiles.map(async (filename) => {
+		const slug = filename.replace('.md', '');
+		const rawPost = await fs.readFile(
+			path.join('blogposts', `${filename}`),
+			'utf-8'
+		);
+		const { data: postInfo } = matter(rawPost);
+		return {
+			slug,
+			postInfo
+		};
+	}));
 
 	posts.sort((a, b) => {
 		return new Date(b.postInfo.date) - new Date(a.postInfo.date);
 	});
 
 	return posts;
-};
+}
 
 router.get('/', async (request, response) => {
+	const postList = await getPostsList();
 	const renderData = {
 		postList
 	};
@@ -44,8 +45,10 @@ router.get('/', async (request, response) => {
 
 // RSS feed
 router.get('/feed.xml', async (request, response) => {
+	const postList = await getPostsList();
+
 	// Adds the pubDate and the cover_extension to the post array
-	const posts = postList().map((post) => {
+	const posts = postList.map((post) => {
 		post.postInfo.pubDate = new Date(post.postInfo.date).toUTCString();
 		post.postInfo.cover_extension = post.postInfo.cover_image.substring(post.postInfo.cover_image.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
 		return post;
@@ -60,8 +63,7 @@ router.get('/feed.xml', async (request, response) => {
 
 router.get('/:slug', async (request, response, next) => {
 	const renderData = {
-		layout: 'blog-opengraph',
-		postList
+		layout: 'blog-opengraph'
 	};
 
 	// Get the name of the post from the URL
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ router.get('/:slug', async (request, response, next) => {
 	// Get the markdown file corresponding to the post
 	let rawPost;
 	try {
-		rawPost = fs.readFileSync(path.join('blogposts', `${postName}.md`), 'utf-8');
+		rawPost = await fs.readFile(path.join('blogposts', `${postName}.md`), 'utf-8');
 	} catch (err) {
 		logger.error(err);
 		next();