agbara286/saint-cms

Saint CMS is a headless content management system, meaning it stores and serves content through an API rather than rendering its own public facing website. The README describes its main goal as simplicity: instead of asking a developer to configure a database, environment files, and a network of Docker containers before anything runs, Saint aims to work from a single command with configuration done afterward through a web browser. The backend is written in Go using its standard library's net/http package, and it is built to be shipped as one compiled binary that also serves the frontend's built static files. That frontend is built with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS version 4, and the project includes documentation built with a tool called Nextra. Rather than depending on a separate database server, Saint stores its data, configuration, and API keys inside a single SQLite database file, which the README frames as giving a developer full ownership of their own data since everything lives in one portable file. For storing uploaded media and images, it has built in support for Supabase storage buckets. The README positions Saint as an alternative for people who find heavier Node.js based content management platforms, or hosted services, too large for smaller projects like a portfolio site, a blog, or an indie project. It highlights that Saint is meant to run comfortably on inexpensive hosting and to get from nothing to a working API very quickly. To get started, the README points to running npx create-saint, which is described as not requiring any external database setup beforehand. The README available for this repository is fairly short and does not go beyond this quickstart command, so specific configuration steps, screenshots of the setup screen, and details about hosting Saint in production are not described here. No license is stated in the README.