EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript content management system built as an Astro integration. It provides an administration panel, REST API, authentication, media library and extensible plugin architecture.
Content is stored as structured Portable Text rather than serialized HTML. EmDash supports custom content types, revisions, drafts, scheduled publishing, full-text search and inline visual editing. Collections can be created and modified through its visual schema builder, with TypeScript types generated from the live database schema.
EmDash can run on Cloudflare using D1, R2, KV and Workers, or on a Node.js server with SQLite. Other supported storage components include PostgreSQL, Turso, S3-compatible object storage and Redis. The software is currently in beta preview.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Administration panel with a visual content schema builder.
- Blog posts, pages and user-defined content types.
- Portable Text storage with rich-text editing powered by TipTap.
- Drafts, revisions, scheduled publishing and full-text search.
- Media library with drag-and-drop uploads.
- Passkey, OAuth and magic-link authentication.
- Role-based access control for administrators, editors, authors and contributors.
- Plugin API with lifecycle hooks, settings, dashboard widgets and custom blocks.
- Sandboxed plugin execution using Cloudflare Worker isolates.
- WordPress import tools for posts, pages, media and taxonomies.
- Built-in MCP server and command-line content management tools.
- Starter templates for blogs, marketing sites and portfolios.
- Support for Cloudflare and conventional Node.js deployments.
Website: github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
Support:
Developer: Matt Kane
License: MIT License
EmDash is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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