Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way

Aether CMS is a fast, minimal platform built for simplicity. No bloat, just clean, modular architecture for effortless content management. My journey with content management started in the WordPress ecosystem, building themes and plugins. But over time, I grew tired of the heavyweight platforms and returned to the roots of the web: HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. That path led me through the JAMstack world, but I found most tools overcomplicated and bloated. So I built Blog-Doc, a lightweight CMS/SSG that taught me the value of simple content workflows. Then came LiteNode, my custom Node.js framework built for performance and minimalism. Aether CMS is where that journey led. It's everything I've learned about content systems, distilled into a platform that runs on just four core modules: adm-zip , argon2 , litenode , and marked . No bloat. No overengineering. Just fast, clean, modular architecture. Unlike many JAMstack tools that feel like using a cannon to kill a fly, Aether st ... Read full article.