Check out the preview release: new fields, caching, improved media management, and more

[hunvreus]

Check out the demo on Youtube: https://youtu.be/zWdy2T3VhkA

I've just finished setting up the preview build of Pages CMS at dev.pagescms.org. Moving forward, you'll be able to use that to try out new features before they're released to production.

Try out the upcoming version of Pages CMS (dev.pagescms.org)

It is packed with bug fixes, improvements and new features. The most important ones:

Multiple media configurations

You can now set up more than one media folders:

media:
  - label: Images
    name: images
    input: images
    output: /images
    categories: [ image ]
  - label: Files
    name: files
    input: files
    output: /files

These can be referenced across media related configurations. Each can have their own options (e.g. categories, extensions, ...).

New file field

You can now upload whatever files you want. It supports a few options:

• media: the name of the media you want to use for that field. Defaults to the first media entry.
• path: the default path to upload or select files.
• multiple: if true, allows you to upload multiple files (and reorder them). You can also set it up to be an object with min and max attributes, similar to the list attribute on all fields.
• categories and extensions: same as for image, allows you to restrict the types of files you can upload or select.

It also supports drag and drop upload.

I've updated the rich-text and image fields to support the same options

Select field

I've upgraded the select field to support multiple entries:

It also allows you to use any remote URL to fetch values:

An example of configuration to allow you to query the GitHub API:

      - name: github_id
        label: GitHub ID
        type: select
        options:
          fetch:
            url: https://api.github.com/search/users
            method: GET
            params:
              q: "{input}"
            default: "hunvreus"
            results: items
            value: "{id}"
            label: "{login} ({type})"
            image: "https://github.com/{login}.png"
            minlength: 2
            headers:
              Authorization: Bearer ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reference field

The reference field allows you to refer to another collection. You can set it up in a similar way to the autocomplete select:

      - name: author
        label: Author
        type: reference
        options:
          collection: authors
          search: [ fields.name ]
          label: "{fields.name}"
          value: "{github_id}"

UUID field

Allows you to get a UUID value in your content:

Caching

I've added caching on collections and media folders. It will still be fairly slow the first time you visit the collection or media page, but after that things should be pretty snappy. I will improve the caching strategy over time.

What's next?

I'm still working on rolling this out in production, but the next big things I'm working on are:

• Blocks: allow you to define reusable objects. For example, you could define an author block with name, photo and email fields and reuse it in multiple content entries. Read more: Block type composition support #200 (comment)
• Mixed types: allows you to define more than one possible types for fields (e.g. type: [ image, file, string ]), which the user can choose when editing. Read more: Block type composition support #200 (comment)
• Tree collections: this will allow you to visualize collections as trees with nodes (e.g. an about page at ./about/index.md would be displayed at the same level as ./contact.md and have other pages from ./about/ underneath it).

If you're interested in helping out, come to the issue queue: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms/issues/

[hunvreus]

The demo repo is available there: https://github.com/pages-cms/demo

Have a look at the config in particular: https://github.com/pages-cms/demo/blob/main/.pages.yml

[hunvreus]

Pushed some more performance improvements today, it should feel a lot snappier.

I'll be pushing this release in production over the weekend.

[hunvreus]

It's in production: https://app.pagescms.org/

Do let me know if you run into any issues. It should overall be a lot faster, especially for large collections.

[hunvreus]

Documentation is also up to date: https://pagescms.org/docs/configuration/