/beacon

Open-source content management system (CMS) built with Phoenix LiveView. Faster render times to boost SEO performance, even for the most content-heavy pages.

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Beacon

Performance without compromising productivity.

Beacon is a content management system (CMS) built with Phoenix LiveView. It brings the rendering speed benefits of Phoenix to even the most content-heavy pages with faster render times to boost SEO performance.

Guides

Check out the guides to get started:

Demo

A sample application running latest Beacon is available at https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_demo

Status

Pre-release version. You can expect incomplete features and breaking changes before a stable v0.1.0 is released.

Main components:

  • Core - A functional website can be built and deployed by inserting components in database and running a server, see https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_demo
  • Admin - UI to manage pages and assets. Under heavy development.
  • Page Builder - An easy to use, drag & drop UI for building pages, targeted to non-technical users. Not released yet, in the initial stages of development.

Local Development

The file dev.exs is a self-contained Phoenix application running Beacon with sample data and code reloading enabled.

Install cmark-gfm and execute the following to get a local server running:

mix setup
iex -S mix dev

Visit any of the routes defined in dev.exs as http://localhost:4001/dev/home or http://localhost:4001/admin or request resources from the API as http://localhost:4001/api/pages