Beacon
Performance without compromising productivity.
Beacon is a content management system (CMS) built with Phoenix LiveView. It brings the rendering speed benefits of Phoenix to even the most content-heavy pages with faster render times to boost SEO performance.
Guides
Check out the guides to get started:
- Installation to get your first site up and running
- Admin to enable the Admin UI
- API to enable the Beacon API
- Deployment on Fly.io to deploy your site on Fly.io
Demo
A sample application running latest Beacon is available at https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_demo
Status
Pre-release version. You can expect incomplete features and breaking changes before a stable v0.1.0 is released.
Main components:
- Core - A functional website can be built and deployed by inserting components in database and running a server, see https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_demo
- Admin - UI to manage pages and assets. Under heavy development.
- Page Builder - An easy to use, drag & drop UI for building pages, targeted to non-technical users. Not released yet, in the initial stages of development.
Local Development
The file dev.exs is a self-contained Phoenix application running Beacon with sample data and code reloading enabled.
Run the following to get a local server:
mix setup
iex -S mix dev