SteadyCMS — a flexible, block-based, static site CMS frontend for desktop.

Currently, only Hugo is supported but the long-term goal is to be flexible for use with any static site generator out there.

Not yet ready for production use, but we're nearing alpha state. We're looking for early testers, adopters, and contributors to help make SteadyCMS the best it can be.

For now the Vue.js app wrapped in Electron.js for a desktop application is our primary focus, then in the future, a web version.

• Initial dashboard
• Create, edit, and preview post
• WIP Basic block editor for editing posts (Paragraph, Heading, List, Image, Quote blocks)
• Post featured image
• WIP Onboarding flow for creating a new website
• WIP Media library for managing static files
• WIP Publish post
• WIP Website settings

We welcome pull requests and feedback!

• This repository holds the main Vue.js application which can be dropped into either the desktop (or web in the future) projects.
• The Electron-based desktop version can be found here

1. Clone the source for the desktop version git clone https://github.com/SteadyCMS/desktop.git
2. Move into the render directory with cd desktop/src/renderer
3. Drop in the Vue.js code (this repository) with git clone https://github.com/SteadyCMS/SteadyCMS.git .
4. Run npm install to get the js dependencies for the SteadyCMS Vue.js application.
5. Run npm run cssdev to rebuild the css during development.
6. Move back to to the root folder with cd ../..
7. Run npm install to get the js dependencies for the desktop version (Electron, etc).
8. Run npm run dev for development.

npm run dev

cd src/renderer

npm run dev

The current team members and their primary responsibilities:

Noah R (@Correct-Syntax) Visual design, Frontend development, and styling.

@sundrycode Vue.js, Electron, and Javascript logic/functionality.

Copyright 2023-2025, the SteadyCMS team. Licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for details.