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JPEG XL uploads now work in EmDash CMS 1.1.0 media library

Small update for the JPEG XL folks. You can now upload .jxl files straight into the media library on EmDash CMS.

For those who haven't come across it, EmDash is an open source CMS for Astro, from Cloudflare. Think of it as a spiritual successor to WordPress, but fully TypeScript and full-stack. Content types are defined in the admin and typed from your schema, plugins run in isolated sandboxes, and every site ships with an MCP server so you can manage content with an AI agent if you want.

If you're on Astro and want to serve JPEG XL, worth a try. There's a playground at try.emdashcms.com or run on your machine that use SQLite database by default if you just want to poke around.

Release 1.0 – The First Mile
https://emdashcms.com/blog/emdash-1-0

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u/theguymatter — 15 days ago
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WordPress vs EmDash: What is EmDash actually trying to be?

I've been using Astro for a few years, and I've worked with WordPress enough to understand why it's still everywhere.

WordPress is mature. The ecosystem is huge, developers know it, agencies know it, clients know it, and there's a plugin for almost everything. For many websites, that's more than enough, except custom-built sites could do better where custom code can solve more complex problems.

EmDash is coming from a different direction.

It's not really trying to be "the next WordPress". It's a full CMS built around Astro.

You still get the things you'd expect from a CMS: an admin panel, content types, rich text you can add block-like to your contents, media management, drafts, revisions, scheduled publishing, search, taxonomies and menus.

But the website itself remains an Astro project.

One part I find particularly interesting is the content model. Content types (Like ACF plugin) can be created and modified through the admin rather than requiring every collection to be defined in code. Each collection becomes a real SQL table with typed columns, and developers can generate TypeScript types from the live schema.

So your content is managed in EmDash, while the website is built with Astro.

For developers, EmDash also provides an API, CLI and MCP server. AI agents can work with the CMS, but isn't required to use it.

The deployment model is another difference. Self-host with Node.js uses SQLite database by default, while Cloudflare deployments can use D1, R2 and Workers. There is also support for other database and storage backends.

And there is a plugin system. On Cloudflare, plugins can run in isolated Worker sandboxes with declared capabilities. Node deployments currently use in-process plugins instead.

It's still early, and obviously it doesn't have anything close to WordPress's decades of plugins, themes, integrations and community knowledge. Yet, plugin developers are already making plans to support both CMSs, which is an encouraging sign that an ecosystem is starting to form around EmDash.

Worth reading:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-blog-uses-emdash/

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast, also wrote about it:
https://joost.blog/emdash-cms/

Have you tried it? How's it?

u/theguymatter — 22 days ago
▲ 1 r/asksg

Water leaking into neighbour's HDB flat when using washing machine drainage?

My neighbour came over to let us know that water was leaking into her flat. I think it happened when my mum drained the washing machine water into the vertical drainage pipe. The HDB flat is only 10 years old.

u/theguymatter — 3 months ago