So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Node.js
Our Node CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Node SDK that makes 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.
Powerful CMS for Node. Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your Node app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Node and Node.js apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Node CMS set up in one hour or less.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
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 Node 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
ButterCMS is the best headless cms for Node for a simple reason: Node developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Node app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your Node or Node.js app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Node.js app.
Seamless Node components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Node components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Node app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Node components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
One Node CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Node CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Node API.
First you would set up a new Customer Case Study page type in Butter and create a page. With your page defined, the ButterCMS API will return it in JSON format like this:
{ "data": { "slug": "acme-co", "fields": { "facebook_open_graph_title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS", "seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study", "headline": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS", "testimonial": "<p>We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - <em>Chief Anvil Maker</em></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.buttercms.com/NiA3IIP3Ssurz5eNJ15a\" alt=\"\" caption=\"false\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" /></p>", "customer_logo": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV", } } }
This guide uses the Express framework and EJS templates but Butter integrates with any Node.js server and templating engines like Jade, Mustache, and React. To create these pages in our app, we create a dynamic route that fetches content for the page by using a URL parameter. This is how the app.js file might look:
var express = require('express'); var butter = require('buttercms')('');
