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VexCMS

Roadmap

VexCMS is under active development. Everything ships as 0.1.0-alpha until the core feature set is stable enough for a v0.1.0 release.

Status key: ✅ Shipped · 🔄 In progress · 📋 Planned · ⏳ Future · 🔭 Exploring

Shipped

Section titled “Shipped”
  • ✅ 16 field types — text, number, checkbox, select, date, url, email, textarea, json, relationship, upload, array, group, blocks, color, richtext (Plate.js via @vexcms/richtext-plate, with inline images from the media library)
  • ✅ Versioning & drafts — draft/publish workflow, autosave, version history, restore, and unpublish
  • ✅ Convex schema + type codegen
  • ✅ Real-time admin panel
  • ✅ DataTable with pagination and totalDocs
  • ✅ Media library
  • ✅ RBAC with document-level access, indexed rules (withIndex ranges and where predicates), and per-call access.action / access.bypass
  • ✅ Access index resolution — a rule’s withIndex range and where predicate apply inside the Convex query itself
  • ✅ anonRole fallback for unauthenticated callers
  • ✅ Globals (defineGlobal)
  • ✅ Database-driven theming — themes collection, active-theme selector, buildThemeCss custom-property injection
  • ✅ Better Auth integration
  • ✅ Convex file storage
  • ✅ TypeDoc API reference
  • ✅ CLI — vex dev / vex generate / vex deploy
  • ✅ create-vexcms scaffolder
  • ✅ Field-level RBAC permissions — a filter callback may return a field map instead of a boolean
  • ✅ Static prerendering, path-based revalidation, sitemap.xml / robots.txt
  • ✅ Exported React test kit — run the admin panel’s own component suite against your config
  • ✅ Lifecycle hooks — beforeChange / beforeDelete (inline, may reject a write) and afterChange / afterDelete (via convex-helpers triggers), wired by default in create-vexcms’s base-nextjs template and both hand-maintained apps
  • ✅ Custom validate() — async, server-side, database-aware (uniqueness checks and cross-document rules), enforced on every write. A dedicated lifecycle-hooks guide covering both of the above is still to write; see @vexcms/core’s README until then.
  • ✅ Live preview — the admin panel streams unsaved form state onto your real route, for collections and globals alike. Preview settings declare per collection/global or in one root admin.livePreview map; url takes a literal path, a (doc) => string resolver, or a { server } resolver that reads the database. Origin-allowlisted and gated per request by a session-verified cookie
  • ✅ email, textarea, and json fields — textarea adds a character counter, json is a CodeMirror editor
  • ✅ tabs, collapsible, row, and ui layout fields — organize sibling fields into tabs, collapsible sections, and side-by-side rows, or drop in a non-persisted display/action component, all legal anywhere a fields record is
  • ✅ Conditional fields — admin.condition({ data, siblingData }) => boolean shows or hides any field (data or layout), enforced identically on the client and the server
  • ✅ Input masks — admin.mask on text / email / number / url, with project-wide defaults at fields.inputMasks.<type>
  • ✅ Block clipboard — copy/paste blocks across fields, documents, and collections from a localStorage clipboard validated against the target block definition
  • ✅ Admin extension points (experimental) — per-field and project-wide component overrides and additive action-menu contributions, documented in the admin customization guide
  • ✅ List views — per-collection search, sort, an AND/OR filter builder with per-field filter inputs, column visibility/order/pinning/resizing, page size, local and shared saved views (admin.view / admin.views), a peek panel, row and bulk actions, server-prerendered first paint. See the list views guide
  • ✅ commitTs() field — Convex’s own commit timestamp, read-only and auto-indexed; the auto-injected updatedAt uses it
  • ✅ Edit-view overhaul — reorganized header with a ⋯ actions menu, every built-in action a replaceable admin.components.edit slot contribution, an unsaved-changes guard, duplicate for documents and blocks, and collection URLs under /admin/collections/<slug>. See the admin customization guide

In progress

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These are the v0.1.0 launch track, in the order they ship.

  • 🔄 Localization design — the storage model and versioning interaction decided before anyone has data to migrate. Localization ships free in the core
  • 🔄 Field input consistency pass — relationship field and others get consistent interaction and loading patterns
  • 🔄 Responsive pass across the admin panel, marketing template, and docs

Planned

Section titled “Planned”
  • 📋 Form builder
  • 📋 Block group categorization
  • 📋 Content scheduling
  • 📋 API keys
  • 📋 Team management
  • 📋 TanStack Start adapter
  • 📋 S3 / R2 storage adapters
  • 📋 Presence — avatars of everyone viewing a document, on every edit view

Future

Section titled “Future”

Committed, but not yet scheduled — distinct from Exploring, which is still open research. These are the items the site’s roadmap block marks future.

  • ⏳ Plugin system — custom field types
  • ⏳ Localization — field variants and locale-aware versioning, free in the core
  • ⏳ Auto-migration — schema diffing and field backfill on deploy

Exploring

Section titled “Exploring”
  • 🔭 Multi-component workspaces
  • 🔭 Analytics adapter — per-document and per-block metrics surfaced directly in the admin panel

Enterprise

Section titled “Enterprise”

Paid add-ons, shipped as separate packages under a flat annual licence and running entirely in your own Convex deployment. The core stays Apache-2.0, and nothing free today moves behind the licence.

  • 🔭 Real-time collaboration — per-field editing indicators, live cursors, follow mode, collaborative rich-text editing, and concurrent-edit conflict resolution
  • 🔭 SAML / OIDC single sign-on
  • 🔭 Audit log with retention and export
  • 🔭 Approval workflows
  • 🔭 Content branching between environments

Not planned

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Assessed and deliberately excluded, so you do not have to wonder:

  • imageUrl field. Use upload with the media library, or a url field.