emdash-cms/emdash

Features

Content -- Blog posts, pages, custom content types. Rich text editing via TipTap with Portable Text storage. Revisions, drafts, scheduled publishing, full-text search (FTS5), inline visual editing.

Admin -- Full admin panel with visual schema builder, media library (drag-drop uploads via signed URLs), navigation menus, taxonomies, widgets, and a WordPress import wizard.

Auth -- Passkey-first (WebAuthn) with OAuth and magic link fallbacks. Role-based access control: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor.

Plugins -- definePlugin() API with lifecycle hooks, KV storage, settings, admin pages, dashboard widgets, custom block types, and API routes. Sandboxed execution on Cloudflare via Dynamic Worker Loaders, and on Node.js in a workerd child process.

How It Works

EmDash is an Astro integration. Add it to your config and you get a complete CMS: admin panel, REST API, authentication, media library, and plugin system.

Content types are defined in the database, not in code. Non-developers create and modify collections through the admin UI. Each collection gets a real SQL table with typed columns. Developers generate TypeScript types from the live schema:

Query content using Astro's Live Collections -- no rebuilds, no separate API:

Blog

• Categories & tags
• Full-text search
• Comment-ready
• Dark / light mode

Marketing

• Hero with photo and CTAs
• Logo wall, features and stats
• Text and photo sections
• Pricing, FAQ and closing CTA
• Dark / light mode

Portfolio

• Project grid
• Tag filtering
• Case study pages
• Dark / light mode