FormCMS is a cutting-edge, open-source Content Management System designed to revolutionize web development through AI. By automating the most tedious parts of development—schema design, data seeding, API creation, and UI building—FormCMS allows you to build complex, production-ready applications in minutes rather than weeks.

FormCMS acts as your AI-driven development partner. Describe what you want, and it builds it:

• Generate the Full Stack: Entities (schemas), Seed Data, GraphQL Queries, and UI Pages from natural language.
• Add Engagement Instantly: "Add a like button" or "Show user avatar" simply works.
• Manage & Iterate: View version history and manage artifacts in the visual portal.

📖 See Wiki for full capabilities →

Watch FormCMS build a complete Library system (Entities, Data, Queries, and UI) from scratch in under 60 seconds (sped up 10x).

Try the live demo at formcms.com/mate.

Credentials:

• Username: sadmin@cms.com
• Password: Admin1!

The easiest way to get FormCMS running. No backend setup, no .NET, no database installation required.

Pull and run from Docker Hub:

docker run -d \
  --name formcms \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -v formcms_data:/data \
  -e DATABASE_PROVIDER=0 \
  -e "CONNECTION_STRING=Data Source=/data/cms.db" \
  jaike/formcms-mono:latest

Then open http://localhost:5000/mate in your browser and follow the setup wizard.

📌 That's it! You have a fully functional AI-powered CMS. Start building your app with React, Vite, or any frontend framework.

For production deployment with PostgreSQL, see the Docker Hub page for a full docker-compose.yml example.

Once running, try these prompts:

• "Design entities for a library management system"
• "Add sample data for the book entity"
• "Create a query to display all available books"

🛠️ Want to contribute or run from source? See the Development Setup Guide →

You don't need .NET or any backend experience to use FormCMS. Just run the Docker image and start building your frontend with the tools you already know:

• Use React + Vite to build your app
• Use AI (e.g., Antigravity, Cursor) to generate schemas, queries, and pages
• FormCMS provides the backend, APIs, and admin panel — all running inside Docker

📖 See the Vite + React + Antigravity example →

For detailed documentation, please refer to our Wiki (source of truth):

📖 See Wiki for detailed architecture →

📖 See Wiki for performance details →

FormCMS is actively evolving toward a vision of no-code app building with AI. Here's what's coming:

The Vision: Describe your app in plain English → AI generates the entire backend (entities, queries, pages) → deploy with one click. No code required.