Fancy CMS

The Stages document model — a PHP host + page renderer (node tree → HTML with island hydration) paired with a WYSIWYG React editor. Early-release beta.

Poly2 packages · one productPHPReact

Everything in this family ships against one shared contract — install only the pieces your stack needs. Language mirrors behave identically, so you pick your backend and get the same product.

Backend

PHPPHP

particle-academy/fancy-cms

$composer require particle-academy/fancy-cms

EARLY-RELEASE BETA — Laravel host + PHP page renderer for the Stages doc model: node tree → HTML with island hydration; backend pair of the fancy-cms-ui editor (still in preview). Expect rough edges and breaking 0.x changes — please report anything you hit at github.com/Particle-Academy/fancy-cms/issues.

Docs →GitHub →Packagist →

Editor UI

TSReact3 components

@particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui

$npm install @particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui

EARLY-RELEASE BETA — WYSIWYG CMS editor (React) for the Stages doc model: three-pane layers / canvas / inspector editing where every mutation is one PageOp through a pure reducer, plus the CmsPage / CmsRegion renderers with $bind data fields; pairs with the particle-academy/fancy-cms PHP renderer. Expect rough edges and breaking 0.x changes — please report anything you hit at github.com/Particle-Academy/fancy-cms-ui/issues.

3 components →GitHub →npm →

readmeShared model & API — README.md

particle-academy/fancy-cms

⚠️ Early-release BETA. This package is young and moving fast — expect rough edges, gaps, and breaking changes between 0.x releases. If you hit anything odd (bugs, missing pieces, confusing docs), please report it at github.com/Particle-Academy/fancy-cms/issues — every discovery helps.

The Laravel host for fancy-cms — an extendable inline-WYSIWYG website + app-shell builder built on the Fancy UI suite. This package owns the PHP renderer (node tree → HTML + compiled CSS + island placeholders), and — in later phases — persistence, the file API on any disk, and publish routing.

Status: Phase 0 (spine). Ships FancyCms\Render\CssEmitter — the PHP half of the dual-emitter pair, a byte-for-byte mirror of the JS emitter in @particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui. Verified by the parity harness (fancy-cms-ui/parity). PageRenderer is a skeleton; persistence + routing land in Phase 1.

Architecture & plan: .ai/plans/fancy-cms.md in the fancy.agi envelope.

Why two emitters

The editor (JS) and the published site (PHP) must produce identical CSS from the same document — "what you build" === "what ships". The two emitters are kept honest by a cross-engine parity harness, the same discipline used for dark-slide / holy-sheet (PHP ≡ Node).

php bin/emit-css.php path/to/doc.json   # emit CSS for a Stages document

Principles

Guest, not host — adopted per-surface; respects host auth/layout/data.
Human+ is opt-in — core works with no websockets or agents.

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🤖 Note to agents

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