Features

Note: pcms serves my own needs (only?), so I just implement what is necessary for my projects. If something is missing, that means I just had no use for that feature.

Design Goals

• Provide a simple, non-intrusive Page delivery system, based on HTML templates
• No database needed, no setup, no strings. The filesystem is also the Site structure.
• Programmer friendly, or, code-first: There is no UI! Ever!
• Can render markdown as well as plain HTML, but with some kind of template engine

Implemented features

• Web server written in GO
• serves HTML and Markdown files from a root folder
• Folder structure defines URL routes
• Content is rendered using a Template engine (see pongo2 below)
• No database needed, file-based only.
• Uses pongo2, a Django-like template engine written in GO for html/markdown files to create pages based on templates
• separates theme / layout from content
• restricted pages with HTTP Basic Auth credentials supported
• self-contained binary: you just need the one single binary to run a pcms site

Once-to-be-implemented features

• on-the-fly sass-to-css transformation
• static output generation of whole site
• Template / HTML caching
• API for querying and maintaining the running app
• … and a lot more: Ideas are pending…