decentcms's Introduction

DecentCMS

DecentCMS aims at being a decent CMS written in Node. Its design principles are inherited from Drupal and Orchard CMS.

State

The current state of DecentCMS is: naked.

The system can handle very simple sites, in a runtime-only fashion. There is no dashboard yet.

All code is subject to change and refactoring.

Features

The following features are implemented:

Module system, with scoped dependency injection and automatic detection and loading of services.
Themes
Multi-tenancy
Navigation menus
Content type system
Widgets
Express compatibility
File-based content store
Markdown
Template overloading
Code-based asynchronous view engine
Dust-based asynchronous view engine
Localization base infrastructure
Tokens
Logging (using Winston)

Future features include:

Document database as the content store
Documentation site
Localization implementation
Dashboard
Authentication
Installer

Road map

The road map is determined by me, based on what I think are the most urgent features, on what my customers ask me to build, and on user and contributor feedback.

Near future milestones are:

First publicly accessible web site running DecentCMS
Authentication and basic dashboard infrastructure
Documentation and community site running DecentCMS

Installation

There is an experimental installation procedure for the moment:

Install Node.js
npm install -g grunt-cli
Clone the repository
From the root of the clone, npm install
From the root of the clone, grunt install
Create a web site or clone an existing one under sites/default (for example from this sample site).

You can then run the server: node server, and navigate to localhost:1337.

Otherwise, you can manually install by cloning the repository, adding a sites/default folder (for example from this sample site), and then npm install from the root and from every single module and theme folder.