Add Netlify CMS’s admin dashboard to any Astro project
Installation
npm i astro-netlify-cms
What is this?
This is an integration for the Astro site builder, which adds support for Netlify CMS, an open-source, Git-based content management system.
Adding the integration will:
- Add the Netlify CMS dashboard at
/admin
(or another route if you prefer) - Inject Netlify’s Identity Widget across your site to support logging in to the admin app
- Run a local proxy server in
dev
mode to allow local content updates via the CMS
Usually each of these requires individual set up and configuration. Using this integration, you configure your CMS once in astro.config.mjs
, sit back, and enjoy!
Looking for a quick way to get started? Try out the Blog Starter with Netlify CMS →
Usage
Adding the integration
To add Netlify CMS to your project, import and use the integration in your
Astro config file, adding it to the integrations
array.
// astro.config.mjs
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import NetlifyCMS from 'astro-netlify-cms';
export default defineConfig({
integrations: [
NetlifyCMS({
config: {
backend: {
name: 'git-gateway',
branch: 'main',
},
collections: [
// Content collections
],
},
}),
],
});
Configuration options
You can pass an options object to the integration to configure how it behaves.
adminPath
Type: string
Default: '/admin'
Determines the route where the Netlify CMS admin dashboard will be available on your site.
Feeling nostalgic for WordPress? You could set this to '/wp-admin'
!
config
Type: CmsConfig
This option is required. It allows you to configure Netlify CMS with the
same options you would use when using Netlify CMS’s config.yml
file format.
You can see a full list of configuration options in the Netlify CMS docs.
At a minimum, you must set the backend
and collections
options:
config: {
// Use Netlify’s “Git Gateway” authentication and target our default branch
backend: {
name: 'git-gateway',
branch: 'main',
},
collections: [
// Define a blog post collection
{
name: 'posts',
label: 'Blog Posts',
folder: 'src/pages/posts',
create: true,
delete: true,
fields: [
{ name: 'title', widget: 'string', label: 'Post Title' },
{ name: 'body', widget: 'markdown', label: 'Post Body' },
],
},
],
};
previewStyles
Type: Array<string | [string, { raw: true }]>
Sets custom CSS styles to apply in the Netlify CMS preview pane.
You can provide URLs to external CSS stylesheets (Google Fonts for example), paths to local CSS files in your project, or even raw CSS strings:
previewStyles: [
// Path to a local CSS file, relative to your project’s root directory
'/src/styles/main.css',
// An npm module identifier
'@fontsource/roboto',
// A URL to an externally hosted CSS file
'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=IBM+Plex+Mono&display=swap',
// Raw CSS!
['p { color: red; }', { raw: true }],
];
disableIdentityWidgetInjection
Type: boolean
Default: false
By default, astro-netlify-cms
injects Netlify’s Identity Widget across your site to enable authentication. If you only want to inject the widget on the admin route, you can set disableIdentityWidgetInjection: true
.
To-do
- Support registering custom preview components to render content as it is edited.
- Support registering custom block components for use in the Markdown editor.