/prose

A content editor for GitHub.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Prose

Prose provides a beatifully simple content authoring environment for CMS-free websites. It's a web-based interface for managing content on GitHub. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub. Host your website on GitHub Pages for free, or set up your own GitHub webhook server.

Read more about Prose

Setting up Prose with your site

Prose supports configuration settings with a variety of options making it easy to adjust the application to support your needs on a project. You can see a list of options on the wiki page.

Installation and developing

Prose is hosted at Prose.io, or you can use on your own server. For installation instructions and contributing guidelines, please read contributing.md.

To host your own GitHub webhook Jekyll server, check out Jekyll-Hook.

Change Log

1.0.0 - May 8 2013

  • Complete user interface redesign
  • Metadata editor for Jekyll post front matter
  • In-layout previews for Jekyll posts
  • Support for multilingual content
  • Many bug fixes and performance improvements
  • See the v1.0.0 milestone for the full list

0.4.0 - July 30 2012

  • Submit patches with suggestions for repositories you don't have write access to.

0.3.0 - July 23 2012

  • Implemented commit messages + review changes workflow.
  • Search for files within a repository as you type.
  • After selecting a repo default branch is loaded and you can switch using the breadcrumbs.
  • Better editing expierence
  • Fixes dozens of issues

0.2.0 - July 6 2012

Added support for organizations and user profiles. Users can manipulate the full filepath now, allowing them to organize their files in subfolders. Fixes ~ 40 reported issues. Also, updated CodeMirror and added syntax highlighting for some popular programming languages.

0.1.1 - June 27 2012

Improved error handling. Upgraded CodeMirror to version 2.3 and added basic support for Github Flavored Markdown.

0.1.0 - June 25 2012

Initial release.

Prose is developed and maintained by Development Seed.