ZauberCMS (The Blazor CMS) Is Finally Released
I set myself a goal of building a Blazor CMS, and then building my own personal site within said CMS within 3 months... Well, 6 months later 👀 We finally have a Blazor CMS. Which means, you are reading this on the first ever site built with ZauberCMS and with that, ZauberCMS is officially launched 🙌
To say it's been stressful building the CMS would be an under statement. There are a ton of things I still want to add and change, but as the age old saying goes...
v1.4.8
Yeah, so, turns out, shipping a working version of a CMS is not as easy as I thought. Especially when you start trying to build your own site in it.
I'm actually glad I did, because the amount of bugs and annoying UX stuff I found from just building this site was eye opening, hence why the release version is v1.4.8 and not v1.0.0 😂😩
Anyway. I'm happy with this launch, for a starter CMS, in the .Net ecosphere it has quite a lot of features OOTB. Over 25 content properties (Property editors for Umbraco folk), multi-lingual ability, block list editor and much more.
Try It Out
For anyone that stumbles on this and has no idea where to get the CMS. It's open source and available on Github
Playing With The Starter Site
The source code comes with a starter site built in for you to have a play around with and see how a site is built. Just clone the repo on Github above, build and run the ZauberCMS.Web project you will see the starter kit. To edit the content and see how it's built, go to the admin (/admin) and you should get redirected to the login page.
Register for an account and you will get redirected to the admin section to see how it's built. The first user created in ZauberCMS is added to the Admin group which is why you will have access to the admin.
Documentation
I've tried to keep the docs up to date and put everything in there, so have a look there too
https://aptitude.gitbook.io/zaubercms/getting-started/quick-start
Now I have had the chance to build a site using it, I'm quite enjoying building a site using Blazor and the CMS.
I'm going to try and post any information on this blog about hosting and building Blazor Static/InteractiveServer apps, and will keep developing this site to find best practices.