Bloke CMS

Simple CMS built with nestjs and angular

Disclaimer

This project is at MVP stage, please keep that in mind if you decide to use it.

What

With Bloke CMS you build your content with blocks:

• Text blocks
• Code blocks
• Media blocks

Blocks can be re-used across articles, sidebars* and footers* improving content creation efficiency. Content can be published by creating pages.

Client is build with angular universal meaning that first page render occures on a server and then content rendering is handled by a browser upon navigation. This approach supports search engines and provides SPA experience to a user.

* WIP feature

Why

For educational reasons, mainly to try angular universal and nestjs.

How

Install Bloke CMS using blokecms-cli or fork the repository.

Pages

To create a page you must provide a title, slug and optionally add articles, sidebars and footers. For a public home page create a page with home slug.

Navigation

To create public client main navigation use name main.

Styling

To style public client application create style and use name main.

Scripting

To add javascript create script and use name main.

Requirements

Node v16 or v18 and Mongo DB. Minimum 2GB RAM.

Installation

CLI

For production ready optimised version use blokecms-cli:

$ npx blokecms-cli@latest
$ cd blokecms/package/server
$ NODE_ENV=production node dist/main

You may want to seed user if starting the cms for first time, please read on.

Fork

See DEVELOPMENT for details and package.json scripts.

For quick setup run:

$ npm run install
$ npm run build:prepare
$ npm run build:start

and navigate to http://localhost:3000;

You may want to seed user if starting the cms for first time, please read on.

Seed User

When starting Bloke CMS you can seed user to get access to admin panel.

$ ADMIN_SEED=your_username node dist/main

or (if forked)

$ ADMIN_SEED=your_username npm run start

In terminal you will see 'Admin seed created, pwd: "..."', make a note of the password as it is displayed only once. After app is started you can login to admin panel using previously provided 'your_username' and displayed password. You can then create new admin user and delete the seed if you like.

Deployment

Tested with bitnami MEAN stack on AWS using LightSail. For more details see DEVELOPMENT Deployment section.