CMS for Meteor.js

guncebektas · January 11, 2016, 1:36pm

Hi, I’m new to Meteor and started an open-source project named as autoCms. This small package is fully integrated with autoForm and the aim of the package is to create a platform which helps you to build your applications or admin panel only with JSON files.

You can see the package in here https://github.com/guncebektas/autocms

I coded an example blog site which is totally separated from front-end. You can sign-in
( admin@admin.com | password ) to check it on http://menka-beta2.meteor.com/

After sign-in visit these pages;
http://menka-beta2.meteor.com/cms/navs/list

github.com

guncebektas/autocms/blob/master/example/both/collections/navs.js

//First of all create Mongo collections
navs = new Mongo.Collection('navs');
// Attach schema for autoForm
navs.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
  prefix:
  {
    type: "select2",
    autoform: {
      options: function () {
        var values = [
          {
            label: 'Application', 
            value: ''
          }, 
          {
            label: 'CMS', 
            value: 'cms'
          }
        ];
        return values;

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http://menka-beta2.meteor.com/cms/blogs/list

github.com

guncebektas/autocms/blob/master/example/both/collections/blogs.js

//First of all create Mongo collections
blogs = new Mongo.Collection('blogs');

// Search index 
blogsIndex = new EasySearch.Index({
  collection: blogs,
  fields: ['description'],
  defaultSearchOptions: {
    limit: 10
  },
  engine: new EasySearch.Minimongo()
});

blogs.sorted = function(limit) {
  return blogs.find({}, {sort: {createdAt: -1}, limit: limit});
};

// Attach schema for autoForm
blogs.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
  title: {

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http://menka-beta2.meteor.com/cms/settings/item/M3Mv2K9YkzbsY9fbE

github.com

guncebektas/autocms/blob/master/example/both/collections/settings.js

// Turn on the debug
SimpleSchema.debug = true;

//First of all create Mongo collections
settings = new Mongo.Collection('settings');
// Attach schema for autoForm
settings.attachSchema(new SimpleSchema({
  'meta.sitename': {
    type: String,
    label: "Name of App",
    max: 40
  },
  'meta.title': {
    type: String,
    label: "Title",
    max: 40
  },
  'meta.description': {
    type: String,
    label: "Description",

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I’m waiting to here your thoughts and feedbacks. Thanks.

juliancwirko · January 11, 2016, 2:25pm

This is awesome that many people works on many different type of projects based on Meteor, but I always wonder if Meteor is a good platform for content management stuff, I mean blogs, info websites etc. Don’t get me wrong, I like what you are doing, I just wonder if this is a good platform for the job. Maybe with SSR it could be better. I wonder what community thinks of this.

dallasgoldswain · January 11, 2016, 2:45pm

great stuff, i am new to the whole meteor/javascript ecosystem, but i was thinking of doing a cms as well to learn as that what i develop as my job using LAMP.

i think for microsites it would be awesome. I am looking at using meteor to make a better backend for wordpress using their REST-api

will def be following

guncebektas · January 11, 2016, 2:46pm

thanks for ur reply @juliancwirko blog is just an example. I’m totally agree with you we don’t need the features of Meteor in a blog but as you know it’s an important part of internet community. Also autoCms is not only designed to manage blog contents but also designed to build an application for other situations.

Besides that Wordpress has filled a big gap and improve the PHP community even the code was not perfect. Separated projects can increase the usage of Meteor. Maybe, autoCms could be one of them.

guncebektas · January 11, 2016, 2:49pm

Thank you @dallasgoldswain you can find my code https://github.com/guncebektas/autocms/tree/master/example any help will be great

guncebektas · February 7, 2016, 8:53pm

the issues are completely solved including refresh problem and new version released @juliencwirko @dallasgoldswain waiting for feedbacks. First post updated.

repsonsive · February 8, 2016, 10:12am

Thank you! Will try this out.

brajt · February 8, 2016, 12:28pm

Imho it can be, as long as CMS doesn’t rely on publications and grabs the data through methods. Otherwise in any bigger app than blog, there would be a publication to keep track of publications to manage publications and 20 concurrent users would be all it can bear.

guncebektas · February 21, 2016, 3:00pm

New features added you can see all of them on improved example

sorting system (autoCms)
intable edit (autoCms)
easysearch (example)
loadmore content (example)
http://menka-beta2.meteor.com/

You can download the example from github

Feedback is welcome