An admin panel for plain files

Content in Git is a gift to developers and a wall for everyone else. An admin panel is the usual answer, and it usually brings a database with it.

Edit the files themselves

The admin runs only on your machine, next to the dev server. It reads the collection schemas, draws a form for each field, and saves back into the same Markdown file.

Keep the diff small

The test of a file editor is the diff it leaves behind. Change one title and the commit should show one line, with your comments, quotes and key order untouched.

• Unchanged blocks are kept byte for byte
• New keys land where the schema puts them
• A conflict shows up as a conflict, not as lost work

When the panel is done, it is gone: nothing of it reaches the published site.