What is Cratly? ​

Creating websites does not require an online content management system. All it takes is a content repository and a template engine — Cratly.

Cratly is a framework for creating websites that are more efficient and more secure than most of today's websites.

• Efficiency: Sites are built only on actual content changes; visitors are served pre-built files. Nothing is computed per visitor and nothing is recompiled continuously, which reduces long-term maintenance effort and energy consumption.
• Security: Website generation runs on dedicated infrastructure that can sit behind a firewall. Serving the result publicly needs far less software, and therefore far fewer vulnerabilities to manage.

The pieces ​

• Cratly Editor — a browser-based Markdown editor for the content of GitLab-hosted sites. Connect a repository, browse its file tree, and edit pages without a local clone. Runs on its own host (editor.cratly.io).
• Theme framework adapters — build tools that turn the content repository into a static site. Scavold is the reference adapter (VitePress); the formats here are framework-agnostic so other adapters can implement them too.
• Specifications — the framework-agnostic contracts both the editor and adapters rely on, maintained on this site.

Where to go next ​

• Guide → — set up and use the Cratly Editor with your GitLab repository.
• Site configuration → — the .cratly.config.yaml specification.
• Section types → — how the editor learns the typed properties each section kind accepts.
• Section-type schema → — the published JSON Schema grammar.