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
• 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 - LiveView UI to manage layouts, pages, and all other resources. See https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_live_admin
• 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.

Contributing

Check out the CONTRIBUTING.md doc for overall guidelines to contribute to this project, then follow the Local Development steps to run a local project or watch the video below to understand more about Beacon internals:

Local Development

The file dev.exs is a self-contained Phoenix application running Beacon with sample data and code reloading enabled. Follow these steps to get a site up and running:

1. Install dependencies, build assets, and run database setup:

mix setup

If deps compilation fails, make sure your environment has the compilers installed. On Ubuntu look for the build_essential package, on macOS install utilities with xcode-select --install

2. Execute the dev script:

iex --sname core -S mix dev

Note that running a named node isn't required unless you're running Beacon LiveAdmin too.

Finally, visit any of the routes defined in dev.exs as http://localhost:4001/dev/home or request resources from the API as http://localhost:4001/api/pages

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