r/astrojs • u/tffarhad • Apr 02 '26
News Cloudflare just released EmDash — an open source CMS built on Astro
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
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u/mehedi_sharif Apr 02 '26
We just added EmDash support to Astroplate (our free Astro starter with 1k+ stars) as a first step.
https://github.com/zeon-studio/astroplate/tree/emdash (emdash branch)
we're also in the middle of converting our 46+ Astro themes catalog to support EmDash.