Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

Post by edtechdev » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

Post by hunvreus » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

edtechdev wrote: post #51

Good to see further development in this space. Would be interesting to see how it compares to Decap CMS https://decapcms.org/ and Static CMS https://www.staticcms.org/ Me personally I'd like to see something that supports easily creating and using different types of objects besides pages (such as: events, books, recipes, etc.), like content types and fields and views in wordpress or drupal, ideally aligned with schem…

Post by hunvreus » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:48 PM UTC

FanaHOVA wrote: post #54

Why do I have to give access to all my public and private repos instead of selecting the ones I want to give it access to?

  Why do you need full access to all of my GitHub repositories?
  
  Well, the GitHub API kinda sucks when it comes to OAuth scoping. Pages CMS relies on the OAuth App flow, which doesn't allow for granular permissions. The alternative would be to use the GitHub App flow instead, but:
  
  It's a lot more complicated and would require us to store and orchestrate a lot more in the backend.
  
  Since we need to impersonate users (for things like commits), we anyway need to request user tokens, which technically would give us the same access as with the OAuth App flow.
  
  However, we do not store your GitHub OAuth tokens in the backend. The serverless functions used to facilitate the OAuth login pass the OAuth token to the front-end, allowing it to directly communicate with the GitHub API.
  
  And if you still don't trust the online version, you can deploy your own version for free in less than 10 minutes our Cloudflare Pages.
  
  Do let me know if I got some of this wrong (@hunvreus), and feel free to suggest improvements in the issue queue.

Post by colinramsay » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

hunvreus wrote: post #29

colinramsay wrote: post #13

EDIT: I didn't have a `media` entry in my pages.yml, which meant the rich text editor wasn't loading (JS error was being thrown). When I added that entry, it started working! Brilliant work! I'm using Jekyll, with yaml frontmatter, and it's not clear how to specify the body. The documentation says that a rich text field could be set up with a "name" option (and gives "body") as an example but my Markdown files don't…

I rolled out a hotfix, this should be fixed. Thanks for the feedback.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

FanaHOVA wrote: post #54

Why do I have to give access to all my public and private repos instead of selecting the ones I want to give it access to?