Welcome to Papaya CMS 🍌

Papaya is a modern, high-performance blog platform built with Rust, Axum, Tera templates, and AWS S3 for content storage.

Why Papaya?

• Fast - Server-side rendering with in-memory caching
• Simple - Content stored as Markdown files in S3
• Flexible - Custom themes via Git repositories
• Lightweight - No database, no complex infrastructure
• Mobile-first - Responsive design out of the box

Features

Markdown Support

Papaya supports full GitHub-flavored Markdown including:

• Tables with alignment
• Footnotes ¹
• Strikethrough text
• Task lists [x] Done
• Code blocks with syntax highlighting

Tables

Feature	Status	Notes
Server-side rendering	✅	Tera templates
S3 content storage	✅	Markdown + assets
In-memory cache	✅	Thread-safe
Custom themes	✅	Git-based
Mobile responsive	✅	Tailwind CSS

Code Blocks

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, Papaya! 🍌");
    
    let posts = cache.get_posts().await;
    for post in posts {
        println!("{} - {}", post.date, post.title);
    }
}

// JavaScript example
async function fetchPosts() {
    const response = await fetch('/api/posts');
    const posts = await response.json();
    return posts;
}

Blockquotes

Papaya makes blogging simple again. No databases, no complex CMS, just Markdown files in S3 rendered beautifully.

Images & Galleries

Single image:

Gallery:

Lists

Unordered:

• Rust for performance
• Axum for web framework
• Tera for templating
• S3 for storage

Ordered:

1. Write Markdown
2. Push to S3
3. Refresh cache
4. View your blog

Task list:

• Initialize project
• Configure S3
• Create templates
• Add comments
• Add search

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Getting Started

See the README for full setup instructions.