uCMS - A headless CMS

The status of this project is: Alpha - in active development.

uCMS aims to be a lightweight, standalone, stable, fast headless CMS. It is distributed as a single self-contained binary available for macOS, Windows and Linux.

A future vision of this project is that it could be used as a personal content store where you could grant third party applications access to store your data in a well defined structure. You could then grant access to another third party if you wanted to change providers as long as they are type-compatible. To achieve this, we will produce a standard library of Content Types for common data structures so they can easily be shared.

Dynamic Content Types

The core of the CMS revolves around Content Types. Content Types can be created dynamically using a custom JSON format, the editor UI is then auto-generated from the definition and a JSON Schema is created to validate documents against.

A simplified Article Content Type might look like this

{
  "id": "article",
  "type": "Article",
  "name": "Article",
  "description": "A simplified article",
  "displayField": "title",
  "fields": [
    {
      "id": "title",
      "type": "Text",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "id": "body",
      "type": "TextArea",
      "required": true
    }
  ]
}

The corresponding generated JSON Schema would be

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "description": "A simplified article",
  "id": "/schema/article.json",
  "properties": {
      "body": {
          "type": "string"
      },
      "title": {
          "type": "string"
      }
  },
  "required": [
      "title",
      "body"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

The CMS will now allow you to create and store Article documents that validate against this JSON Schema, either through the editor interface or securely via the API for third party access.

Dynamic Editor

uCMS will come with a default editor implementation so you can create/edit content directly in the application, but the types and schemas are served via the API so third party editors could be built and/or embedded into another web application communicating with uCMS via the API.

TODO

• Reference Types
• Full-text search
• Backups
• LetsEncrypt SSL certs
• Versioning
• Multi-language support
• Owner-authentication (3rd Party)
• Demo-frontend apps (Gatsby, Hugo, ...)