CaretCMS
An Astro integration v0.1.2 · MIT · Astro 5/6

One attribute. Any element. Editable.

Adding a CMS shouldn't mean building a second app. With CaretCMS, the Astro site you already shipped is editable in place.

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index.astro · template 
<h1 data-caret="pages::home::headline">
  Welcome to my site
</h1>
your-site.com Saved

Welcome to my site

click to edit

01 · The shape of it

The template is the schema. The page is the editor.

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    Your markup is the schema.

    Existing elements are the default content. The first edit creates the collection — no config to write.

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    Just one attribute.

    One HTML attribute binds an element to a field. Click on the live page, type, click away. Saved.

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    Your content, your infra.

    MIT licensed and self-hosted. Your content is plain JSON stored on infrastructure you own — never locked in a vendor's database.

02 · Live demo

Try the editor on a real page.

Click any text or swap the photo, right here on the page. It's the real editor running in your browser, with nothing to install.

  • 01

    Click the page to edit.

    Rewrite the headline, caption, or body copy in place.

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    Open the dashboard.

    See the same content as entries in the bundled CMS studio.

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    Ship it as plain HTML.

    With static delivery, published edits bake into HTML at build time — fast CDN pages with no client-side CMS runtime.

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03 · Against the field

Other CMSs ask you to model first.

We let you ship first.

Sanity, Contentful Define the schema, then build the page.
Tina, Decap Write a config, then expose fields.
Strapi, Payload Run a server, set up a database.
CaretCMS Add one attribute to your existing markup.

Tina and Decap push edits from the browser. CaretCMS renders published content into HTML — baked at build for static sites, or rewritten per request on server delivery — so visitors get fast pages search engines can read.

04 · Who it's for

Build it once. Hand it off without a training call.

You add the attributes — or run caretize on an existing site. After that, whoever owns the words edits on the real page: a client, a teammate, or you. On server delivery, fixes show up immediately; on static delivery, publish and rebuild.

Add one attribute.
Ship what you have.

install 
$ npx @caretcms/caretize init
# astro.config.mjs — static sites
integrations: [ caret({ delivery: 'static' }) ]
Begin · 90 seconds Source on GitHub

MIT licensed · Astro 5 + 6 · Self-host anywhere