What is lumibase?

LumiBase is a headless content management system built to run on Cloudflare's edge network rather than a traditional server. A headless CMS stores and manages content, like pages, articles, or product data, through an API, while leaving how that content looks and is displayed up to a separate front end application. The README describes LumiBase as inspired by Directus, but designed specifically for running many websites at once without the scaling and deployment problems that come with a single large, traditional CMS. The project runs on Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare Hyperdrive, which the README says gives it very fast response times worldwide, since requests are handled close to the visitor rather than routed to one central server. It supports true multi tenancy, meaning multiple separate websites or clients can share the same LumiBase instance while their data stays fully isolated by a site identifier built into the system. It also offers a page hydration API, which returns a page's layout and its content together in one response instead of several separate calls, and it supports exporting and importing configuration for roles and schemas so setups can be version controlled and reused, an approach sometimes called GitOps. Sensitive fields can be encrypted individually using AES-GCM. The codebase is organized as a Turborepo monorepo. It includes a backend API built with Hono.js meant to run on Cloudflare Workers, a no-code admin dashboard built with React and Vite called Studio, and a planned Next.js demo app for server-rendered delivery. Shared packages cover the database layer, built with Drizzle ORM, shared types and schemas, a JavaScript SDK, and shared UI components. To try it locally, a developer installs dependencies with pnpm and runs the CMS API and the Studio dashboard as separate development servers. LumiBase is written in TypeScript and released under the MIT license, and the README also describes paid sponsorship tiers that unlock extra documentation and support.