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netlify-cms-app
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An extensible, open source, Git-based, React CMS for static sites. Reusable congiuration with React as peer.
For a Netlify CMS overview, see the general Netlify CMS project README.
This package is similar to the netlify-cms package, but is designed for use with extensions. It serves that purpose in the following ways.
init method.react or react-dom - they are required as peer dependencies.netlify-cms-media-library-cloudinary]netlify-cms-media-library-uploadcare]Install via script tag:
<!-- Excluding `doctype` and `head` but you should add them -->
<body>
<!-- Add these scripts to the bottom of the body -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react@^16/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@^16/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/netlify-cms-app/dist/netlify-cms-app.js"></script>
<!-- Initialize the CMS -->
<script>
NetlifyCmsApp.init();
</script>
</body>
Install via npm:
npm i react react-dom netlify-cms-app
import CMS from 'netlify-cms-app';
CMS.init();
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An extensible, open source, Git-based, React CMS for static sites. Reusable congiuration with React as peer.
The npm package netlify-cms-app receives a total of 3,095 weekly downloads. As such, netlify-cms-app popularity was classified as popular.
We found that netlify-cms-app demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 17 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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