README

A content management system for Laravel, built on Filament. Editors compose pages visually on the real design of the website. Developers keep plain Laravel: Eloquent models, Blade components, service providers and tests. AI assistants work on the same content with exactly the permissions of the person using them.

Features

• A visual editor on the real design. Pages are built from blocks on a canvas that renders the website's own Blade components and stylesheet. Editors type straight onto the page, drag blocks into columns, and switch between desktop, tablet and mobile.
• Structured content. Every block is a PHP class with a Filament form, defaults and validation. Pages store blocks as validated JSON, so the same content serves the website, the REST and GraphQL APIs and AI assistants.
• A safe publishing workflow. Drafts, review, scheduled publishing, and revisions with one-click restore. Changes to a live page wait until someone publishes them, and edit locks stop two people from overwriting each other.
• AI that respects permissions. An MCP server lets Claude and other AI apps read and edit the CMS as the signed-in person, over OAuth. The same tools power an assistant inside the admin, and every AI action is logged.
• Everything else a site needs. A media library, a form builder, menus, redirects and a trash. Users with passkeys, two-factor sign-in and roles. Several languages and several websites from one admin. Search, SEO checks, a page cache and webhooks.
• Just Laravel. Your website is a Laravel app, and the CMS is a package in it that updates with composer update.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4 or newer, with the GD or Imagick extension
• Laravel 13
• A database: SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL

Installation

The quickest start is the starter app, a Laravel application with Aurora already set up:

composer create-project shipaurora/aurora my-site   # asks a few questions and sets it all up
cd my-site

To add Aurora to an existing Laravel application:

composer require shipaurora/cms
php artisan aurora:install

aurora:install sets up the database and what the CMS needs, publishes the admin's assets and the page layouts, creates your admin account, and offers to build the website's front end (--build to do it without asking). The starter app runs it for you at the end of create-project. Then sign in at /admin.

Aurora comes with its default admin theme, Borealis. Minimal is a second one to choose from.

Usage

php artisan aurora:make-block "Pricing table"   # a block of the website's own
php artisan make:aurora-layout "Campaign"        # a page layout of the website's own, in app/Layouts
php artisan make:aurora-user                     # a person, with a role
php artisan aurora:reindex                       # rebuild the search index

Blocks live in the app (app/Blocks), with their views in resources/views/components/blocks. The page layouts are published to resources/views/vendor/aurora/layouts, to make your own.

Documentation

The documentation is at shipaurora.com/docs. It covers the visual editor, blocks, layouts, users and roles, languages, AI, the APIs and configuration.

License

Aurora is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.