3,930 stars · MIT at main/LICENSE, stock text, holder named: 'Copyright 2025 Ronan Berder' (no '(c)', a slight deviation from the stock header). · 2.1.8, '08 Jun' with no year, settled as 2026-06-08 by the ungh releases record and consistent with package.json on main; corroborated only weakly by a relative 'three months ago' elsewhere, which pins the year but not the day. · Track this in Scout
An editing screen for a website whose content lives in a git repository, so the repository stays the only copy.
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What it is
A small web application that signs in to your GitHub repository and shows the Markdown files and images in it as editable pages. Markdown is plain text with a few simple marks for headings and links. The files stay exactly where they were; this only edits them.
What it is good for. The situation where one person builds a site and a different person writes for it. The writer gets a form, not a code editor. It suits anyone whose site is already generated from files in a repository and who does not want to add a database and an admin system to make it editable.
- Nothing new holds your content. The repository is still the only copy.
- MIT licensed, with the holder named:
Copyright 2025 Ronan Berder. - There is a hosted version run by the project, so you can see whether it suits you before installing anything.
- Self-hosting it is a real job, not a setting. It needs Node.js, PostgreSQL 16, Docker for the database, two secrets you generate by hand, and a GitHub App you register yourself before anything works at all.
- No Node.js version is stated anywhere in the project, and there is no published package, so the only route is clone and build.
- It has been renamed at least twice.
pages-cms/pages-cmsandpagescms/pagescmsboth lead here, and the project's own README still tells you to clone the old address. Code last landed on 23 June 2026, about three and a half months ago.
- decaporg/decap-cms
The long-standing version of this idea, which runs entirely in the browser with no server and no database of its own.
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sveltia/sveltia-cmsA modern rewrite of Decap that is faster and better on a phone; covered as entry #2 of Edition 14.
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tinacms/tinacmsEdits the page while you look at it rather than through a separate form, and its signposted route is a paid hosted backend; covered as entry #11 of Edition 35.
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git clone https://github.com/hunvreus/pagescms.git cd pagescms docker run --name pagescms-db -e POSTGRES_USER=pagescms \ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pagescms -e POSTGRES_DB=pagescms \ -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:16 npm install # Create a file called .env.local containing: # DATABASE_URL=postgresql://pagescms:pagescms@localhost:5432/pagescms # BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=... # CRYPTO_KEY=... # Generate each secret with: openssl rand -base64 32 npm run setup:github-app -- --base-url http://localhost:3000 npm run db:migrate npm run dev
