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Welcome
Project documentation home
Getting Started
First-run setup, branding, pages, and deployment basics
Quick Setup (TL;DR)
Clone to deploy in 8 steps
Scenario A: Public Site, No User Login
Use your own theme for public pages. Staff-only login for admin tools.
Scenario B: Public Site with User Login
Users log in and use your app with your theme.
Scenario C: Build on SmallStack's Theme
Use SmallStack's built-in theme for everything.
Tutorials
Step-by-step guides for building with SmallStack
Build a React CRUD App
Build a React frontend with SmallStack's CRUDView REST API
Build a Svelte Inventory Dashboard
Build a SvelteKit inventory dashboard (auth, charts, CRUD) on SmallStack's CRUDView REST API
Build a SolidJS Inventory App
Build a SolidJS app (signals, resources, auth, CRUD) on SmallStack's REST API using the bundled client
Build a Streamlit Data App
Consume SmallStack's API from Python — a server-side Streamlit dashboard with server-computed metrics and charts
Blog
Blogs and newsletters — writing, publishing, feeds and email
Blog & Newsletter
What a blog is here, how visibility works, and where everything lives
Writing posts
Markdown support, slugs, excerpts, cover images, tags, and publishing
Publishing runbook pages
Turn an existing runbook document into a post, and keep it in sync
Newsletter
Subscribers, double opt-in, sending issues, bounces and deliverability
Feeds and APIs
RSS/Atom/JSON feeds, the public read API, the REST write API, MCP and webhooks
Showing posts in your own pages
Render posts in your own templates or a separate front end, and publish from your own code
Calendar
Datasets with a date axis, merged onto one month grid — saved views, feeds and the events API
Calendar
What a calendar dataset is, picking calendars additively, saving a view, and the day panel
Declaring calendar datasets
The protocol: start/end columns, titles, status tints, access levels, and the bundled calendars
Feeds and the events API
Subscribe from a calendar app (.ics), the JSON events routes, saved-view REST and the MCP tools