OrangeCMS - Manage your static site content with UI

[bluzky]

Hi everyone,

I would like to introduce my new project OrangeCMS, it’s an application that help you to create/edit content post for your static site without git and markdown knowledge. For developers like me and you, it’s easy to create a file, write some markdown, and git push to remote repo. But for non-tech guys, like my wife or your marketing team, it’s too complicated.
I searched on the web for an existing solution but they are not fit with my need. So I decide to build a new one. It’s inspired by Spinal cms.

Take a look:

This is only a minimal version with basic functions and lots of bug

So please give it a try and tell me if you have any suggestion

Links

• Github repo
• Demo Admin page username: demo@example.com, password: 123123
• Demo Content page
• Demo site’s repo

Thank you

[zachdaniel]

This looks awesome!

Will absolutely have to play with this

[bluzky]

Thank Zach for your awesome project, I’m learning to use ash and it’s lot of fun.

[stevensonmt]

Why the hard dependency on Node.js?

[bluzky]

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.

This project is in early stage, I just make it work, lots of hard code

[stevensonmt]

Please don’t think it was a criticism. I just read on the Github readme:

• Requirement: elixir, nodejs installed on your machine

and I was curious what Nodejs is needed for.

[bluzky]

I use some node packages for editor and tailwind UI. Maybe I will put in in vendor directory later.
Thanks for your feedback.

[zorn]

Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

[bluzky]

Update 04/16/2023

I’ve added user management features:

• Add/edit user (only admin user which has is_admin flag set to true)
• Manage project member: add/remove
• Basic role-based access for project’s member
  • admin can manage member, content type
  • Editor can create/edit content entry

And a new WYSIWYG editor which support markdown shortcut

Content features if you missed

• import markdown content from github repo
• publish new/update content to github repo

All feedback are welcomed. Thank you.

[bluzky]

Update 05/02

I was quite busy last couple weeks so there is not much new update. I use this cms to manage my blog content so I added some improvement for the editor.

1. Implement image upload config for each content type

For example: upload image to folder /public/assets and serve at /assets, this depends on how your static site generator handle assets.

2. Add image upload field in fronmatter form

This took a while to handle preview, all uploaded image in frontmatter using relative path, but preview required a full url, so I use raw content url for preview.

3. Add slash command for quick insert new block

4. Insert image to post content

Yeah, I have customized editor to handle preview relative image url

Here is a simple demo

All feedback are welcomed. Thank you.

[zachdaniel]

Really cool to see all the progress you’re making on this project! Great work!