ElmapiCMS - Headless CMS for building Content API

ElmapiCMS is a modern, self-hosted, headless CMS built with Laravel, React, TypeScript, Inertia.js, and Tailwind CSS.

It’s designed to be fast, flexible, and developer-friendly. Perfect for building content-driven applications without the complexity of traditional CMS platforms.

Whether you’re creating websites, SaaS tools, mobile backends, or API-powered platforms, ElmapiCMS gives you full control over your content infrastructure.

Features

• Content Management
  • Multiple projects
  • Blank projects or start from templates
  • Import projects from JSON file
  • Clone projects
  • Save projects as reusable templates
  • Create collections to define content types
  • Single-entry collections for one-off pages
  • Multiple-entry collections for lists of content
  • Add custom fields to collections
  • Choose from 16 field types: text, long text, rich text, slug, e-mail, password, number, enumeration, boolean, color, date, time, media, relation, json, field group
  • Group fields for nested content structures
  • Duplicate content entries with one click
  • Publish and unpublish content
  • Move content to trash
  • Restore content from trash
  • Permanently delete content
  • Switch between draft and published states
  • View content in a data table with filtering
  • Set fields as required
  • Field Validations: unique, required, charcount
  • Custom validation error messages
  • Repeatable fields for multiple values
  • Manage multilingual content with translations
  • Set default language for projects
  • Add or remove languages from projects
  • Import and export content, collections, and projects
• Asset Library
  • Upload images, videos, documents, and other files
  • View assets in grid or list view
  • View and edit detailed metadata for each asset
  • Crop images without leaving the CMS
  • Update asset information
  • Get assets by name via API
  • List all assets via API
  • Upload assets via API
• Rich Text Editor
  • Edit formatted content with Lexical editor
  • Insert media directly from Asset Library
  • View source code of rich text content
  • Edit in fullscreen mode
  • Use rich formatting toolbar
• User Management
  • Create user accounts
  • Assign roles to users
  • Assign multiple roles to a single user
  • Create custom roles
  • Edit role permissions
  • Create custom permissions
  • Control access to all projects or specific projects
  • Grant project access to specific users
  • Update your own profile information
  • Change your password
  • Switch between light and dark themes
  • Sync theme with operating system
• API & Integration
  • Access content via REST API
  • Generate API access tokens
  • Create tokens with specific abilities (read, create, update, delete)
  • Make API public for unauthenticated GET requests
  • Keep API private requiring authentication
  • Filter content via API with advanced operators
  • Sort, Paginate, Filter content via API
  • Exclude specific fields from API responses
  • Get total count of entries via API
  • Filter by related collection fields
  • Use AND, OR, NOT logics in filters
  • Filter by equals, not equals, greater than, less than
  • Filter by like, in, not in, between, not between
  • Filter by null or not null values
  • Get single entry by UUID
  • Get single entry by slug
  • List all entries in a collection
  • Create entries via API
  • Update entries via API
  • Delete entries via API
  • Get translations via API
  • Use official JavaScript SDK
  • Rate limit API requests (60 per minute by default)
• Webhooks
  • Create webhooks to notify external services
  • Trigger webhooks on content creation, updates, deletions, publications, unpublications, trashing, restorations
  • Sign webhook payloads with a secret
  • View webhook delivery logs
• Templates
  • Start projects from built-in templates
  • Save collection structures as templates
  • Include demo data with templates
  • Create templates manually via JSON files
  • Use project templates when creating new projects
  • Use collection templates when creating collections
• Storage
  • Store files locally
  • Store files on AWS S3
  • Store files on S3-compatible services
  • Choose storage disk per project