🥧 tortaCMS

A headless content management system made with Next.JS

🚀 Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

You will need Node.js installed on your system and a MongoDB/PostgreSQL/MySQL database.

Installing

• 1 First clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/FelBenini/torta-cms.git
cd torta-cms

• Or use degit to install

npx degit https://github.com/FelBenini/torta-cms torta-cms
cd torta-cms

• 2 And install its dependencies

npm install

• 3 Rename '.env.local.example' to '.env.local' and change its values, it should look something like this:

CONNECTION_STRING='mongodb://localhost:27017/tortaCMS' #database connection string
NEXTAUTH_SECRET='asdfasdfdasfa0j324asdioahdAAsdfasfsaddfasofjadspo243432zafaASdgsfHDShgSGSFHgs' #this is the hash that will encrypt your jwt tokens
NEXTAUTH_URL='http://localhost:3000'

• 4 Finally build and run the project

npm run build

npm start

Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to see tortaCMS running!

🛰 Deploying

You can easily deploy tortaCMS on Vercel with MongoDB Atlas for free.

• First fork this repository.
• Create a database on https://www.mongodb.com/atlas/database and whitelist the access for your database using '0.0.0.0'. To ensure that your database is secure, use a random generated password.
• Then go to https://vercel.com/dashboard and add a new project choosing the tortaCMS repository that you created as your template.
• After that create all the environment variables on your vercel project, just like the ones in the '.env.local.example'. Your environment variables should end up looking like the image below.

Success! Now you have tortaCMS hosted and running on the cloud! You are good to go to start your new project using tortaCMS!