Intuitive admin interface
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the blog you build with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Express.js
Our Express.js blog engine has a simple content API and drop-in SDKs that make the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
You've got better things to do than build another blog
Drop our Express.js blog engine into your app, and get back to more interesting problems.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine that integrates seamlessly with new and existing Express.js apps. It's great for SEO, and provides a clean and modern user interface that your marketing team will love. You can deploy ButterCMS in minutes using our Express.js API client.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
See how Butter’s API enables you to launch a flexible blog with amazing SEO using your existing tech stack.
Best blog engine on the market
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience. Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml
Deploy our Express Starter in 30 seconds!
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and run your local server on localhost:3000/.
$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/expressjs-starter-buttercms.git
$ cd expressjs-starter-buttercms
$ npm install
$ echo 'EXPRESS_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=your_free_butter_api_token' >> .env
$ npm run dev
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best Express.js blog engine for a simple reason: Express.js developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting blog templates, sidebars, related content features, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
The simplest Express.js blog engine you'll find
Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!
It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO
Fast integration with any Express.js app
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Express.js app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding Butter to your Express.js app.
Of course, you can also use our Pages and Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS Express.js API client.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Express.js app.
Seamless Express.js components
Empower your marketing team to create a customized blog engine that aligns perfectly with your Express.js components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Express.js app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Express.js components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
The best Express.js blog engine for SEO
ButterCMS gives you absolute control over on-page SEO ranking factors. Key SEO variables are built into our default post template, giving your marketing team direct access to configure all of these settings, and more.
ButterCMS saves you development time
Most customers get our Express.js blog engine up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!
Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Express.js application
Integrating the Butter blog engine into your Express.js app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for setting up your blog home and blog post pages.
For a full integration guide, check out our Official Express.js Guide.
To display posts we create a simple /blog
route in our app and fetch blog posts from the Butter API. See our API reference for additional options such as filtering by category or author. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
var express = require('express');
var butter = require('buttercms')('your_token');
var app = express()
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.get('/blog', renderHome)
app.get('/blog/p/:page', renderHome)
app.listen(3000)
function renderHome(req, res) {
var page = req.params.page || 1;
butter.post.list({page_size: 10, page: page}).then(function(resp) {
res.render('index', {
posts: resp.data.data,
next_page: resp.data.meta.next_page,
previous_page: resp.data.meta.previous_page
})
})
}
Next we'll create an EJS template for displaying our posts and pagination links. This guide uses EJS templates but Butter works with any templating engine like Jade, Mustache, and React. If you need help after reading this, contact us via email or livechat.
<h2>Blog</h2>
<% posts.forEach(function(post) { %>
<a href="/blog/<%= post.slug %>"><%= post.title %></a> by <%= post.author.first_name %> <%= post.author.last_name %>
<br>
<% }); %>
<% if (previous_page) { %>
<a href="/blog/p/<%= previous_page %>">Prev</a>
<% } %>
<% if (next_page) { %>
<a href="/blog/p/<%= next_page %>">Next</a>
<% } %>
We'll also create an additional route for displaying individual posts:
app.get('/blog/:slug', renderPost)
function renderPost(req, res) {
var slug = req.params.slug;
butter.post.retrieve(slug).then(function(resp) {
res.render('post', {
title: resp.data.data.title,
post: resp.data.data,
published: new Date(resp.data.data.published)
})
})
}
The template for displaying a full post includes information such as author and publish date. See a full list of available post properties in our API reference.
<h2><%= post.title %></h2>
Published <%= published.getDate() %>/<%= published.getMonth()+1 %>/<%= published.getFullYear() %>
<% if (post.categories.length > 0) { %>
in
<% post.categories.forEach(function(cat) { %>
<a href="/category/<%= cat.slug %>"><%= cat.name %></a>
<% }); %>
<% } %>
<br>
<%= post.author.first_name %> <%= post.author.last_name %>
<div>
<%- post.body %>
</div>
That's it! The blog posts created in your Butter dashboard will immediately show up in your app.
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