Origami CMS [Alpha]

The flexible, easy to use, and open-source CMS built for Node.js

Origami’s aim is to be the world’s best CMS for the Javascript community. It’s built on Node.js and Express with flexibility as it’s primary value. Use any database, any templating language, any CSS preprocesser (SASS, LESS, etc), and whatever else you’d like to bring to the table. It’s a BYO tech stack! It also comes with a bunch of goodies right out of the box.

We need your help!
Origami is very much a work in progress. To make this platform incredible, we humbly call upon the brilliant minds off the web to collaboratively build the worlds best CMS.

Getting started

You’ll need:

• Node.js
• Yarn
• A terminal
• A database of some sort

Checkout the Origami CLI for easy project setup and more.

Once you’ve got that setup, create a .origami file. This is used for Origami’s configuration, and tells the platform things like what theme to use, what database credentials to use, etc. This can be automatically generated for you with origami new using the CLI.

Example .origami file:

{
    "app": {
        "name": "Origami Site"
    },
    "store": {
        "type": "mongodb",
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": "27017",
        "database": "origami-site",
        "username": "origami",
        "password": "supersecret"
    },
    "theme": {
        "name": "snow"
    },
    "server": {
        "port": 9999,
        "secret": "6177fca40ba40bb859e277dc76dd67cf"
    }
}

After you have your .origami file and the cms, store and theme Node packages installed (automatically handled via CLI), you’re good to go!

Simply run origami in the directory to start the server.