What is reactpress?

ReactPress is a publishing platform for building blogs and content driven websites, designed to get you from zero to a working site in about a minute. You install a command line tool, run two commands, init and dev, and it sets up a public facing site, an admin dashboard for managing content, and a backend API, all connected automatically, including a MySQL database running in Docker so you do not have to configure one by hand. The workflow is simple. You install the npm package globally, create a folder for your project, run reactpress init to set everything up, then reactpress dev to start everything locally. The terminal prints the URLs to visit for your public site, the admin panel, and the API. From the admin panel you can manage posts, pages, media, and site settings. There is also a headless mode if you want to use your own custom frontend and only use ReactPress as a content backend through its API. It is built with Next.js on the frontend and NestJS on the backend, both in TypeScript, and it uses MySQL for storage. You can deploy it yourself on a server using the build and start commands, and the README points to further documentation for Docker, PM2, and monorepo deployment setups. It also supports one click deployment to Vercel. Themes, light and dark mode, and templates ranging from a minimal starting point to a full blog are included. The project describes itself as a middle ground between traditional content management systems, which need more manual setup, and static site generators, which are fixed once built. It positions itself as best suited for blogs, multi site content, and custom publishing workflows. The repository is a monorepo containing the CLI, client, server, and templates, and it is released under the MIT License.