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
Querying (file-based index provider)
Content type system
Widgets
Documentation
Express compatibility
File-based content store
CouchDB content store
Markdown
Template overloading
Code-based asynchronous view engine
Dust-based asynchronous view engine
Localization base infrastructure
Tokens
Logging (using Winston)
JSON API (read-only)

Future features include:

CouchDB index provider
Localization implementation
Dashboard
Workflows
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:

Flattening module dependencies to reduce startup time, disk, and memory footprints
Extraction of multi-tenancy code as a standalone library
Workflows
Authentication and basic dashboard infrastructure
All features manageable through dashboard
Move to EcmaScript 2018

Past milestones:

First publicly accessible web site running DecentCMS: http://decentconsulting.com
Documentation and community site running DecentCMS: http://decentcms.org
Documentation up-to-date with code. There is still much work to do, but there is basic documentation for everything.

Installation

There is an experimental installation procedure for the moment that can be found at http://decentcms.org/docs/getting-started.

Does this project take contributions?

Yes, please.

Links

The source code for DecentCMS is hosted on Github: https://github.com/DecentCMS/DecentCMS.

The web site for the project can be found here: http://decentcms.org