What even is this?

Deluge is, simply put, a bare-bones CMS system, written with node.js and Angular JS, using socket.io. It's like Wordpress, only without the bloat. It's designed for web developers and power users, not casual users. And, best of all, it's really just a node.js/angular web application; the CMS portion is entirely optional!

Why another CMS?

Because this isn't actually a CMS. Basically, this is a default project template, with some pre-built components for flatpages and articles. It's completely usable as a CMS, but you can rip those portions out and build whatever you like instead. Or, you can build on this to add whatever additional functionality you'd like.

What about plugins? Modules? Extensions?

You're a developer; write them!

What Deluge provides, is the /client/components folder. Any *.controller*.js file, or *.filter*.js file is automatically watched, and compiled into the application for you. Any *.less file is also compiled for you. The application already watches for any *.tpl.html files to build those into the angular template cache. So, really, extending deluge with a new feature/module is pretty easy. Just put the files there, and it all works.

What about themes?

You're a developer; write them!

Deluge has client/less/theme.less which is just a bunch of imports. By default, we use SpaceLab from BootSwatch. You can easily edit theme.less and GruntFile.js to use any other bootstrap theme. If you want something more complicated, you'll have to figure that out yourself.

Getting Started

First things first: fork this project. This way, should you wish to update, you can use git to help handle the merges, as well as already have a github project available for pushing your changes. You don't have to fork, but I highly recommend it.

Prerequisites:

• NodeJS - www.nodejs.org
• Grunt build system - http://gruntjs.com/getting-started

Installation:

1. npm install to get NodeJS dependencies
2. grunt vendor to get client-side dependencies
3. grunt watch to start the application.

Open http://localhost:8080 to log in, which will create a user for you. Next, you will need to manually edit db/Users.sdb and set admin to true for your new user.

From here, you're all set to get modifying, or even use it as is!