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    EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress

    web
    astro
    cms
    emdash
    typescript
    TypeScript
    MIT
    14.1K stars
    1.4K forks
    14.1K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 223 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • A full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro that offers extensible, type-safe content management with sandboxed plugins and modern web architecture.
    • Provides secure, sandboxed plugin execution and structured Portable Text content storage, eliminating common WordPress security and performance issues.
    • Use for building modern blogs with rich text editing, full-text search, and RSS feeds using a type-safe CMS framework.
    • Use for creating marketing landing pages with modular blocks, photo-led designs, and integrated CTAs without managing separate hosting tiers.
    • Use for developing visual portfolios with tag filtering and case study pages that leverage serverless deployment on Cloudflare or Node.js.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    A full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro. EmDash takes the ideas that made WordPress dominant -- extensibility, admin UX, a plugin ecosystem -- and rebuilds them on serverless, type-safe foundations. Plugins run in sandboxed Worker isolates, solving the fundamental security problem with WordPress's plugin architecture.

    Or deploy directly to your Cloudflare account:

    EmDash runs on Cloudflare (D1 + R2 + Workers) or any Node.js server with SQLite. No PHP, no separate hosting tier -- just deploy your Astro site.

    Excerpt from the emdash-cms/emdash README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

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    Open issues

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