caipi v0.5.6-beta-0

Caipi - wip

What's Caïpi ?

Caipi is an isomorphic, extensible (almost magic) JS stack & CMS.

Very beta minimal demo : caipi-demo.wisewildweb.com ( source )

What's the stack ?

Bundled, configured & among others :

• ReactJS
• Webpack
• MongoDB
• Babel / ES6
• Bootstrap
• SASS
• ...

What's in ?

Out of the box Caipi provide :

• Server side rendering,
• Data preloading
• Basic back office with WYSYWYG text editor, Media upload, Entity references & collections
• Easy rendering of contextual \& nested data queries
• REST API
• True project scalability / inheriting / overriding ( thx webpack & ES6 we can require('$super') :) )
• CLI to deploy & run in 1 or 2 shell command (yes you need to checkout :) )
• Automatic project's Dockerfile generation
• Alias management
• Basic (but extensible) auth
• Basic rights levels (anonymous, logged, publisher & admin)
• Webpack pre-configured build profiles for dev, prod, cordova, server & client
• Reduced sources size & deps ( Caipi initial projects start with no deps, they inherits them from the global Caipi npm )
• Simple method to add webServices,
• Distinct Admin build
• Image upload \& dynamic resize (GM)
• ...

How it work ?

Using webpack, and mostly the same JS code Caipi package the server and the client side, making most of the datas loading process disappear.

Using a flexible entities definitions system it automatically provide :

• the back office,
• the REST back-end,
• the browser route to list/show the records
• and simple jsx tags

Ex: You can render records anywhere in the jsx using db query :

import 'Each' from 'ui/Each';
// ...
<Each etty="article" query={query} viewMode="preview"/>

Or using his entity type & id :

import 'View' from 'ui/View';
// ...

 <View.article id={id_from_somewhere}/>
 <View.article.preview id={id_from_somewhere}/>
 <View.article id={id_from_somewhere} viewMode="preview"/>

First draft doc : here

Give a try ?

• Using Docker

To start the Caipi Docker Image (using the last caipi npm).

docker pull caipi/current
docker run -it -p 80:80 caipi/current

or from the Caipi root dir

docker build -t caipi/current .
docker run -it -p 80:80 caipi/current

or from the caipi mini demo project https://github.com/MrNice42/caipi-demo-website

What's next ?

Will focus on perf, flexibility and scalability.

License ?

Caipi is free under the AGPL terms.

"Early dragon" / partners Commercial licences are available with updates until v2.0.0

Like it ?

Todo ( come and play ! :) )

Todo for v1.0.0 :

• User management/panels
• Query editor
• Server side hot reload
• Metas management
• Better admin
• Live data update
• Server Multi-process basic management
• Animation management
• Customisable webpacks configs
• https
• sitemap & favicons
• Backup, pull & rebuild services
• Advanced demos & docs
• Tests & code clean
• Bug fixes & optims
• Minors api & rationalisations updates...

Options for v2.0.0 :

• elastic search
• add alloy editor, file drop, etc..
• Others db bindings / plugins
• sexy projects templates
• i18n
• Better record management
• lot of stuff...