EmDash
A full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare, reimagining WordPress with serverless, type-safe foundations.
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EmDash is a modern, full-stack CMS built entirely in TypeScript, running on Astro and Cloudflare Workers. It takes the best ideas from WordPress — extensibility, a rich admin UX, and a plugin ecosystem — and rebuilds them on a serverless, type-safe stack.
Instead of raw HTML serialization, EmDash uses Portable Text for structured content. Plugins run in a sandboxed environment for security, and the system supports deployment on both Cloudflare Workers and traditional Node.js servers.
With 6,400+ GitHub stars since its April 2026 launch, EmDash is gaining rapid traction as a developer-first alternative to WordPress for teams who want modern tooling without sacrificing editorial flexibility.
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