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A tiny CMS built on Cloudflare Workers and D1, no back end required
- gnarzilla_ 1y agoHi HN, I’ve been working on a minimal blog/site framework called Deadlight. It’s text-first, built entirely on Cloudflare Workers + D1 (SQLite), and comes with: Markdown support Built-in auth Dark/light themes No backend/server — everything runs on the edge Under 150KB total size No build step, no framework, no database to manage. Just deploy and go. I built it because I wanted something between a static site generator and a full CMS — but that could run completely on Cloudflare’s free tier. I also wanted to own my data and deployment without managing a VPS or container. It’s not perfect, but it works. Setup takes ~5 minutes if you already have a Cloudflare account. Live demo: https://deadlight.boo https://deadlight.boo GitHub: https://github.com/gnarzilla/deadlight-bootstrap https://github.com/gnarzilla/deadlight-bootstrap Would love feedback from folks here — especially thoughts on edge-first architecture and if you'd want to build on something like this. Happy to answer questions about Cloudflare Workers/D1 too.