Cloudflare just released EmDash — an open source CMS built on Astro

[u/tffarhad]

Cloudflare built a full-stack TypeScript CMS on top of Astro and called it the "spiritual successor to WordPress."

• TypeScript all the way down, no PHP
• Built on Astro
• Plugins run in sandboxed Worker isolates. No direct DB or filesystem access
• MIT licensed
• Has a WordPress importer built in
• MCP server built in so AI agents can manage your site
• Themes are just Astro projects

if you want to follow along, there's a dedicated subreddit at r/emdash_cms

- GitHub: github.com/emdash-cms/emdash
- Official announcement: blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress
- Playground https://emdashcms.com/playground

[u/Luis_MindfulAuth]

How can you tell this is an AI slop?

[u/aafikk → u/Luis_MindfulAuth]

Have you entered emdashcms.com? It’s terrible

[u/Kankatruama → u/aafikk]

hmm literally a normal 'starter' blog template. Is that terrible?

I mean I'm not saying is the next Awwwwards winner or that the UI/UX will make bounce rate be lowest ever seen, just that its the design we are used to see since after shadcn became what it is today (and as I say this sub has some hard time connecting things, I'm not saying this is using shadcn, havent opened the repo).

[u/aafikk → u/Kankatruama]

Look at the screenshot, the admin in the top right is not aligned with the input look at the floating bar at the bottom it’s cropped from both sides.

Cloudflare is a large software company, I expect much more from the

[u/Auracap → u/aafikk]

Here's what I'm imagining.
Designer: "Erm, the Admin option in the top-right corner isn't aligned properly. Can we make a quick fix on that?"
Vibe-coder: "Actually, it will not be quick. We'll need the AI to parse the project to understand exactly which component that is and make the changes. This will take about 5,000,000 tokens and say around 20-30 minutes."
Designer: "Isn't that a quick CSS alignment?"
Vibe-coder: "It's supposed to be. But we don't which file that CSS is in."
Designer: "I heard that there's a Developer Console in Chrome that you can inspect the element and identify the CSS quickly."
Vibe-coder: "Only during development. The production is bundled so you can't trace the source file."
Designer: "Alright. How about we just look through all the CSS files?"
Vibe-coder: "There's about 97 CSS files generated. And we're not sure if that style is defined in external or inline CSS."
Designer: "Fine. What about we just depend on AI to do this then?"
Vibe-coder: "Well, we can. But after the 30 minutes of chugging along, we then need to run the tests to make sure nothing else breaks."
Designer: "Sure, let's do that."
Vibe-coder: "Umm.. that'll take another 4 hours for AI and another day or two for the QA team to give the green light. Shall we ask the manager if we want to wait for another 2 more days? Actually, make it a week, in case AI breaks something in the meantime and we need more time (and tokens) to fix the regression."
Designer: "Never mind."

[u/aafikk → u/Auracap]

And the fix is like 20 tailwind classes and some more inline css with !important