emdash-cms

SKILL.md

EmDash CMS

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare. It is the spiritual successor to WordPress: extensible, developer-friendly, and powered by a plugin system that runs plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates rather than with full filesystem/database access. EmDash stores rich text as Portable Text (structured JSON) rather than HTML, supports passkey-first auth, and runs on Cloudflare (D1 + R2 + Workers) or any Node.js server with SQLite.

Installation

Scaffold a new project

npm create emdash@latest

Follow the prompts to choose a template (blog, marketing, portfolio, starter, blank) and a platform (Cloudflare or Node.js/SQLite).

Deploy to Cloudflare directly