TryGhost/Ghost
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 370 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #80 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 18, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modern, open source headless CMS for publishing, memberships, subscriptions, and newsletters.
- Offers a fully managed service option with worldwide CDN, backups, security, and maintenance handled for you.
- Use for launching a professional blog or online magazine with integrated membership and subscription features.
- Use for building a custom publishing platform with a flexible API and support for custom themes.
- Use for developers wanting to self-host a scalable Node.js CMS with active community support and extensibility.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official Ghost(Pro) managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you.
For most people this ends up being the best value option because of how much time it saves — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be supporting open source software and getting a great service!
If you want to run your own instance of Ghost, in most cases the best way is to use our CLI tool
Then, if installing locally add the
localflag to get up and running in under a minute - Local install docsor on a server run the full install, including automatic SSL setup using LetsEncrypt - Production install docs
Check out our official documentation for more information about our recommended hosting stack & properly upgrading Ghost, plus everything you need to develop your own Ghost themes or work with our API.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+967 stars over 90 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +7 on Aug 27.
Forks
12.1K+260
Open issues
196+69
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 192.3K | +5.2K | 75 | — |
| zed-industries/zed | 94.7K | +2.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| google/skills | 23.8K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 99.4K | +1.8K | 75 | 19 days ago |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 20.8K | +1.7K | 75 | 7 days ago |
| TryGhost/Ghost | 55.7K | — | 65 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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