Node.js based

CMS systems

Marcell Kiss | Budacode

@kmarci88

What is CMS?

Central interface for:

  • creating
  • modifying
  • organizing
  • publishing
  • deleting

content

CMS types

  • Blogging
  • Webshops
  • Wikis
  • Social
  • etc...

For developers?
Plugin based?

Usage statistics

WEB: 40% using CMS

  1. WordPress - 60.4%
  2. Joomla - 7.3%
  3. Drupal - 5.1%

What do we have?

  • Ghost
  • KeystoneJS
  • Calipso

  • Reactioncommerce

  • PencilBlue

  • Apostrophe

  • Cody

  • Tiddlywiki

  • Nodize

  • TaracotJS
  • Hatch.js

Stars & Forks

About PencilBlue

Plugin based!

Offers:

tutorials

partnership

community

etc...

Requirements:

Node.js (Express)

MongoDB

Install PencilBlue

$: pbctrl install testFolder
PencilBlue: Site Name:  (My PencilBlue Site) Test
PencilBlue: Site Root:  (http://localhost:8080) 
PencilBlue: Address to bind to:  (0.0.0.0) 
PencilBlue: Site Port:  (8080) 
PencilBlue: MongoDB URL:  (mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/) 
PencilBlue: Database Name:  (pencilblue) test
PencilBlue: Do you want to install Bower components?:  (y/N) y

PencilBlue Admin

http://localhost:8080/admin

PencilBlue maturity?

Not too logical...

 

Many bugs...

 

Needs contribution...

 

Not a WordPress (yet)...

About KeyStoneJS

Database-driven

Websites & APIs

For developers

Auto-generated Admin UI

Built on

Express and MongoDB

Install KeyStoneJS

$ npm install -g yo
$ npm install -g generator-keystone

$ mkdir myproject
$ cd myproject
$ yo keystone

? What is the name of your project? keystone
? Would you like to use Jade, Swig, Nunjucks or Handlebars for templates? 
[jade | swig | nunjucks | hbs] jade
? Would you like to use LESS or SASS for stylesheets? [less | sass] less
? Would you like to include a Blog? Yes
? Would you like to include an Image Gallery? Yes
? Would you like to include a Contact Form? Yes
? What would you like to call the User model? User
? Enter an email address for the first Admin user: info@budacode.com
? Enter a password for the first Admin user: 123456
? Would you like to include gulp or grunt? [gulp | grunt] grunt
? Would you like to create a new directory for your project? No
? ------------------------------------------------
    KeystoneJS integrates with Mandrill (from Mailchimp) for email sending.
    Mandrill accounts are free for up to 12k emails per month.
    Would you like to include Email configuration in your project? Yes
? ------------------------------------------------

KeyStoneJS Admin

localhost:8080/keystone

Develop with KeyStoneJS

Add new models under models/

 

Add routes in routes/index.js

 

 Add views under templates/

KeyStoneJS models

var Post = new keystone.List('Post', {
	map: { name: 'title' },
	autokey: { path: 'slug', from: 'title', unique: true }
});

Post.add({
	title: { type: String, required: true },
	state: { type: Types.Select, options: 'draft, published, archived', 
            default: 'draft', index: true },
	author: { type: Types.Relationship, ref: 'User', index: true },
	publishedDate: { type: Types.Date, index: true, dependsOn: { state: 'published' } },
	image: { type: Types.CloudinaryImage },
	content: {
		brief: { type: Types.Html, wysiwyg: true, height: 150 },
		extended: { type: Types.Html, wysiwyg: true, height: 400 }
	},
	categories: { type: Types.Relationship, ref: 'PostCategory', many: true }
});

Post.schema.virtual('content.full').get(function() {
	return this.content.extended || this.content.brief;
});

Post.defaultColumns = 'title, state|20%, author|20%, publishedDate|20%';
Post.register();

KeyStoneJS models

KeyStoneJS models

KeyStoneJS maturity?

Really matured!

Less work

Automatic API and admin generation

Q & A

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management

http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/websitedevelopment/a/An-Overview-Of-Types-Of-Content-Management-Systems.htm

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