Flatlake
Flatlake is a static API generator. The goal of Flatlake is to expose a headless CMS interface over a set of static git-based files.
Flatlake has the primary goals:
- Ease migrations from a headless CMS to git-based content management, as existing frontends can maintain their architecture.
- Open up new use cases for git-based content, such as integration into mobile applications and existing systems.
- Provide new abilities for aggregating and sharing data between multiple static websites in an organization.
From a set of input Markdown files with front matter, Flatlake will generate a set of JSON files that allow you to query your data. These files are suitable to host as an API on a domain, or they can be loaded in to another static site generate as data files.
For example, if Flatlake is supplied a folder of markdown files in a posts folder, the API generated by Flatlake would provide endpoints such as:
https://my-hosted-api.com/posts/post-one.jsonhttps://my-hosted-api.com/posts/all/page-1.jsonhttps://my-hosted-api.com/posts/aggregate/author/cloudcannon/page-1.json
Providing the ability to, for example:
- Fetch the latest 10 posts with a given author.
- Display the latest news article on all websites within your organization.
- Load individual endpoints into a mobile application dynamically.
To get started, see the Quick start guide.