FormCMS: The AI-Powered CMS

FormCMS is an open-source CMS that uses AI to generate your entire app — schemas, data, APIs, and UI — from natural language. Build production-ready applications in minutes, not weeks.

✨ Why FormCMS?

<table> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>🤖 AI-Powered</h3> <p>Generate schemas, data, GraphQL queries, and full UI pages using natural language prompts. Let AI handle the tedious work while you focus on creativity.</p> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>🎨 Zero Backend Required</h3> <p>No .NET or backend experience needed. Run FormCMS with Docker, build your app with React and AI — that's it.</p> </td> <td align="center" width="33%"> <h3>🚀 Scalable & Performant</h3> <p>P95 latency under 200ms, 2,400+ QPS throughput. Handle millions of posts with CDN caching and billions of user activities with horizontal sharding.</p> </td> </tr> </table>

🎥 In Action

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

Click the image above to watch the full demo on YouTube.

🎨 For Frontend Developers

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 →

🏗️ Built with FormCMS

| App | Description | |-----|-------------| | Zen Health Tracker | A full health tracking app built in hours using FormCMS + AI coding agent — zero manual coding. | | Stash | A PWA companion app for FormCMS content — bookmark, listen, and cache content with a native mobile feel. |

📱 Stash — PWA Companion App

Stash is a Progressive Web App (PWA) built on top of FormCMS that gives users a native mobile-app experience for consuming and managing content — no App Store required. Install it from the browser on iPhone or Android and it works just like a native app.

Features

| Feature | What it does | |---------|-------------| | Explore & Bookmarks | Browse content and bookmark items locally — bookmarked content is cached on-device so it loads instantly with no network needed. | | Text-to-Speech with progress memory | Any article or bookmark can be read aloud. The app remembers exactly where you stopped, so you can pick up later — even across sessions. | | Assets — Download & Convert | Paste a URL to legally download audio/video content. Convert to MP3 (original quality, larger file) or M4A (64 kbps, compressed to save space) directly from the app. | | Offline audio player | Your downloaded files play fully offline. Like TTS, playback progress is saved so long audio files (lectures, podcasts) resume right where you left off. |

💡 Why a PWA? Stash uses browser APIs (Web Speech, IndexedDB, Service Worker) to deliver features that feel like a native iPhone/Android app — without the overhead of publishing to an app store. try the pwa at https://demo.formcms.com/stash/ (no login required)

🧑‍💼 For Non-Developers

No coding skills? No problem. FormCMS lets you build dynamic, data-driven pages without writing a single line of code.

Use the built-in FormCMS Page feature to create pages powered by your database
Let AI generate entire pages for you — not just static HTML, but pages that read and display live data
Manage your content, schemas, and pages all from the visual admin panel

💡 Just describe what you want — AI handles the schema, the data, and the page. You get a fully functional, dynamic web page.

🚀 Quick Start (Docker)

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

🟢 Don't want to install? Try the live demo instantly — login: sadmin@cms.com / Admin1! try the pwa at https://demo.formcms.com/stash/ (no login 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" \
  -e FORMCMS_DATA_PATH=/data \
  jaike/formcms-mono:latest

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

📌 That's it! Try these prompts: "Design entities for a library system" · "Add sample data for books" · "Create a query to display all books"

For production deployment with PostgreSQL, see the Docker Hub page. Want to contribute or run from source? See the Development Setup Guide →

📚 Learn More

⚡ Performance: P95 < 200ms · 2,400+ QPS · SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL

📖 Documentation Wiki · Architecture · Performance & Scalability · Setup Guide

🗺️ Roadmap

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

| Phase | Focus | Key Features | |-------|-------|-------------| | Enhanced AI | Smarter generation | Natural language → schema, AI-suggested relationships, auto-generated CRUD & queries | | Visual Builder | No-code editing | Drag-and-drop page builder, visual schema editor, real-time preview, theme templates | | Marketplace | Community ecosystem | Pre-built app templates, community components, one-click install |

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

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