Angel CMS for Laravel 5.3

Copyright © 2016 Jacob Martin

Angel is a simple, developer-friendly CMS for rapidly developing end-user-customizable web applications and websites.

When your client needs a "Team" page with editable team members...
When your client needs an "FAQs" page with editable questions and answers...
When your client needs "Products" pages with editable products...
When your client needs a blog and WordPress sucks...

...Angel is the answer.

Build a CMS module in minutes for any customizable content needs simply by creating a database table and defining some variables to let the CMS know how to present each column to the user. For instance: if you define a column named html with a "pretty name" of "Content" and a type of wysiwyg, a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" editor will be used to edit that column in the administrative panel like so:

Each column has its own change log, so you can easily see who made a change, when they made it, and exactly what they altered:

The CMS leverages only robust, modern, well-written packages to accomplish its functionality. Angel uses:

• Laravel 5.3 as its foundation.
• Forms & HTML 5.3 by the Laravel Collective for its form building utilities.
• Laravel Debugbar by barryvdh, an excellent debugging tool.
• Foundation for Sites 6.2.3 as the admin panel Sass framework and as the default front-end Sass framework (each compiled separately for maximum customizability).
• FontAwesome 4.6.3 for icons.
• CKEditor 4.5.10 as the WYSIWYG editor in the administrative panel.
• Travis CI for automated, continuous integration testing.

Demo

See the YouTube demo here.

The demo includes a demonstration of how to create your own custom modules in minutes!

Installation

Requirements:

• PHP >= 5.6.4
• MySQL >= 5.6

Fork or clone this repository and:

composer install         # Install the Laravel framework.
bower install            # Install Foundation.
npm install              # Install Laravel Elixir and Gulp.
gulp                     # Compile and version all of the CSS and JS.
./fix.sh                 # Fix the permissions, giving www-data write access to necessary folders.
mysql                    # Create a database and user.
cp .env.example .env     # And edit .env to taste.
php artisan key:generate # Generate a key
php artisan migrate      # Run the database migrations.
php artisan db:seed      # Seed the database with the default users.

Serve the /public folder from Apache.

For production CSS and JS minification, instead use:

gulp --production

Note that files in the following folders are not tracked as they are compiled and/or copied files:

/public/css
/public/js
/public/build
/public/fonts

Other Notes

By default, desktop notifications for gulp compilations are disabled (I find them annoying and useless). To enable desktop notifications, edit gulpfile.js and comment out this line or set it to false:

process.env.DISABLE_NOTIFIER = true;

License

Just like the Laravel framework itself, Angel is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.