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Service that hosts static files on your domain, and lets you and non-technical people securely edit them at any time.

I needed a simple way to edit configuration files on my server without having to edit my app itself and redeploy everything. I decided to build a simple file server that runs behind SSL and is connected with a code editor/file manager.

This allows my non-technical colleagues to still edit configuration files and I can read them in from my app. I'm using this internally and am happy with the result, and was wondering if others want this too. I like that it's simple and will always keep working as they're just static files.

Some screenshots:

Actual file that is being hosted

actual file

Editor for above file that anyone can access

editor

Some usecases:

  • PHP/Wordpress server for novices that simply want to rapidly fix something on production. They can edit PHP files directly from the server without having to deal with FTP as is often the case.

  • JSON/YAML files hosting with CORS that your app can read in, and that non-technical people can easily edit from anywhere. Basically, this could replace any content CMS with something much simpler to work with.

Thoughts?

on July 8, 2020
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    I would suggest that you take a look at Netlify CMS

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      Also came here to say Netlify CSM is what is described in the title.