Manablox is the content system developers install with one command and editors are happy to spend their day in. Shape content in code or by clicking, write with the real website beside the form, and serve it all over REST and GraphQL. AI, workflows and more come as plugins, when you want them.
pnpm dlx @manablox/cli create my-cmsPlugins
The core holds your content, your files, your people and the way it all goes live. A designed website, AI, workflows and webhooks are plugins: pick them when you create an instance, or add one later with manablox plugin install.
Design a whole website in the admin, no frontend code needed, and let Manablox serve it.
What it doesA wand beside every text and picture field, whole pages generated, content models designed from a sentence. With your own keys.
What it doesThe things you would otherwise do by hand after publishing, drawn once on a canvas and run on their own.
What it doesTell other systems when content changes, and give them a URL to call. Every call in both directions is logged.
What it doesThe story
Bella Vista runs four kitchens in two languages and needs a new website before the autumn menu starts. What follows is their launch week, day by day, and everything Manablox did along the way.
Monday, 09:12
Max types one line into a terminal and answers a few questions. Two minutes later the project exists, the database is running and the admin opens in a browser.
Then the only real question: what is a page made of? Max writes the dish down in the config file, Anna builds a teaser by clicking. Both end up as the same thing.
manablox createTuesday, 10:30
Anna gets an account that may write but not publish, opens the home page and presses Visual. The real website appears beside the form, and every keystroke shows up in it before anything is saved.
Blocks are moved and resized by dragging. The German page sits next to the English one, and every save is kept, so yesterday’s idea is one click away.
Wednesday, 14:05
Twelve dishes need a description and nobody has taken the photo yet. Julia adds an AI key, and a small wand appears beside every text field.
It writes one field, or a whole page with its pictures, and nothing is kept until someone says yes.
From the pluginsAI
Thursday, 11:40
One more command and the website itself exists, already reading the content: Astro, Vue, React or plain, whichever Max prefers.
The afternoon belongs to the canvas. When a dish is published, tell the newsletter, wait a day, remind the team. Drawn once, it runs on its own from then on.
Friday, 16:00
The site is served by a separate half of Manablox that can only read. It holds one site’s published pages and nothing else: no drafts, no way in.
Publishing clears exactly the pages that changed. Julia scrolls the log: every change, who made it, and nothing anyone can quietly rewrite.
Saturday
The site is up and the automations run on their own. Anna has already scheduled Monday’s specials, and Julia has been asked to approve them. Your week starts with the same line Max typed.
pnpm dlx @manablox/cli create my-cmsSame name, different thing
Manablox is also a game, and this is not it. That one is about automation and defence on a single 3D grid: mine the Mana ore, wire up the power, let the factories run themselves, and hold the line against waves that never stop coming.
It launches in 2026, and dev builds are already up on itch.io.