The static site generator with nothing to install.
Templates, content, and hosting in one place. Write EJS with your whole content graph in scope, hit save, and it's live on the CDN. No repo, no pipeline, no framework churn.
You write views.
Everything else is pre-plumbed.
A traditional static site is 10% templates and 90% apparatus. SleekCMS is the apparatus - running in the cloud, already configured, never in your way.
Your whole content graph, already in scope.
Every view receives item, pages, and entries, plus helpers like getPages(), getEntry(), img(), and marked(). No fetching, no data layer, no prop drilling - a blog listing is six lines.
Full JavaScript, not a template DSL
EJS is real JS at build time - loops, sorting, dates, conditionals, even JMESPath queries over your content.
Structured data in, clean HTML out
Typed fields from your models arrive ready to render. Guard, loop, and compose however you like.
Head injection helpers
title(), meta(), link(), script() from any view - deduped automatically at build.
<h1><%= item.title %></h1>
<% const posts = getPages('/blog', { collection: true })
.sort((a, b) => new Date(b.date) - new Date(a.date)) %>
<% for (const post of posts) { %>
<article>
<%- img(post.cover, '600x400') %>
<h2><a href="<%= post._path %>"><%= post.title %></a></h2>
<p><%= post.summary %></p>
</article>
<% } %>The plumbing is pre-done.
Everything you'd normally bolt on with services and plugins is part of the framework.
Image optimization + CDN
img(), src(), and picture() emit optimized, resized, format-negotiated images - no image service to wire up.
Tailwind, auto-compiled
Create css/tailwind.css and it compiles and injects on every build. No PostCSS config.
Forms without a backend
One data-sleekcms attribute captures submissions to your dashboard, inbox, or webhooks.
Sitemaps & RSS
Sitemaps handled for you; RSS is a tiny template with no layout - served as real XML.
Script libraries, one-liners
script('gsap'), script('alpinejs'), script('swiper') - deduped CDN includes without hunting URLs.
SEO helpers everywhere
title(), meta(), and structured metadata from your models keep every page complete.
Code in the browser. Or locally. AI or not.
Edit templates right in the SleekCMS editor with live preview - or pull the whole site down as real files with SleekCMS Sync and use your own editor, your own git if you want it, and your own AI agents.
Use AI heavily, occasionally, or never - it's a real developer tool either way.
| Getting to "live" | Typical SSG stack | SleekCMS |
|---|---|---|
| Scaffold & configure a project | You | Done |
| Wire CMS content to templates | You | Done |
| Set up builds & deploys | You | Done |
| Optimize images | You | Done |
| Keep dependencies updated | You | Done |
| Write the actual site | You | You |
Related features
Headless CMS
The same content graph, delivered over a one-fetch REST API with a typed client.
Learn moreSleekCMS Sync
Pull your site into a local workspace and edit with your own tools and agents.
Learn moreHosting & Domains
Global CDN, SSL, versioned publishes with rollback - and domains managed in-app.
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