The Open Source, 100% JavaScript and "all in one" ecommerce solution.

AquilaCMS is :

• An open-source e-commerce web application
• A 100% JavaScript solution with MERN Stack
• A mutli-themes website : Front-end can be used with ReactJS and NextJS (for polymorphism) or any other JS technology (VueJS, Angular, etc)
• A complete back office to manage everything in your website
• A plateform to add modules and themes from Aquila's Shop

To install the latest AquilaCMS, you need :

• node.js 18.16.0+ (tested in v14.20.1+ and v16.18.1+)
• mongoDB 6.0.2+ (tested in v4.2.5+)
• yarn 3.4.1+ package manager (tested in v1.22.19 and v4.0.0-rc.35)

• You must verify that you have these packages installed on your OS :

g++ gcc libgcc libstdc++ linux-headers make python libtool automake autoconf nasm wkhtmltopdf vips vips-dev libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo-dev

• You will probably have to download:

  • wkhtmltopdf : https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html (it needs to be in the PATH)
  • libvips : https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases (beware of 32 or 64 bits versions and it also needs to be in the PATH)

wkhtmltopdf and libvips are NOT necessary for the installation of AquilaCMS but are used in certain functions: wkhtmltopdf is used when generating pdf and libvips when processing cached images (resizing, changing the quality etc).

You can download the source code from GitHub and run the following command-line (not 'Windows cmd') to launch the interactive installer.

• With npm :

yarn install
npm start

• With pm2 :

yarn install
cp ecosystem.config.example.js ecosystem.config.js
npm run start:pm2

• With docker :

# create a network to link mongo and Aquila CMS
docker network create aquila
# create the mongo instance
docker run --name mongo -p 27017:27017 --network=aquila mongo
# pull the latest and run AquilaCMS
docker run -p 127.0.0.1:3010:3010/tcp --network=aquila --name aquila aquilacms/aquilacms

• You can just launch the AquilaCMS image without creating a network if you don't want to connect to a MongoDB launched via Docker
• if you change the port of the docker container, remember to use the correct PORT env variable.

At the first launch, there is an installation page. It allows you to create an env.json file in the config folder.

You can edit this file manually, an example of the different possible properties is in the config/env.example.json file. You can also found all the properties in the documentation

⚠️Warning : there is not MongoDB in AquilaCMS image

To connect your AquilaCMS website to a Mongo database, you can :

• run a MongoDB image next to the AquilaCMS image like in the example above (and use this mongodb container as hostname : mongodb://mongo:27017/)
• use an external link to, for example, an Atlas database
• use a localhost link to connect AquilaCMS to a database on your host machine (you have to edit your mongod.conf and change your bindIp by your network ip instead of 127.0.0.1)

To start a silent installation, you need to set the following environment variables, then start aquila :

• MONGODB_URI : MongoDB URI
• LANGUAGE : Default language. "en" for English or "fr" for French
• FIRSTNAME : Administrator's firstname
• LASTNAME : Administrator's lastname
• EMAIL : Administrator's email
• PASSWORD : Administrator's password (if no password is entered, a random password will be created and shown only once in the server logs during installation)
• APPURL : URL of the website (ie http://localhost:3010)
• ADMIN_PREFIX : Admin subpath (ie : admin)
• SITENAME : Website's name

If you want to have the installation page again, you can remove the env.json file in the config/ folder.

The config/env.json file is created during the AquilaCMS installation phase, the various parameters it can take are present in the config/env.example.json. These parameters are:

• encryption corresponds to parameters used when passwords are encrypted
• jwt has a few parameters to configure JWT creation
• ssl is used to enable https (and http2) API launch
• logs allows to configure log management:
  • type can take three parameters: console, file and graylog
  • http allows http request logs via Morgan
  • override allows to replace all console.log and console.error with log functions from Winston
  • alertMails enable the sending to admins of e-mails related to alerts raised by the system (for example, if it has been detected that an important cron has been deactivated)
  • config contains the fields for setting the parameters for sending logs to Graylog
• devMode has parameters used in development mode, such as non-compilation of the theme or global mail overload
• db is the connection string to MongoDB

They are all under one parameter which corresponds to the AQUILA_ENV.

You can define two environment variables inside AquilaCMS (you can copy .env.sample into a .env file).

• NODE_ENV : you should only limit values to production, development or test (See 'Non standard node env')
• AQUILA_ENV : define the environment values in /config/env.json to be loaded (See our documentation)

We strongly recommend that you build the themes from the AquilaCMS backoffice. But if you want, for any reason, to manually build a theme, you can execute this command at the root of AquilaCMS :

npm run build <THEME_NAME>

The parameter is the name of the theme folder you want to build.

On Windows, we do not recommend using the default cmd. Otherwise, you may get an error when using the npm run build command.

Find some documentation on :

• https://doc.aquila-cms.com/
• https://aquila-cms.com/api-docs, the swagger documentation
• On a local Aquila at /api-docs

You can also check some tutorials on :

• Our dedicated page
• Our youtube channel

If you want to contribute, you will need to install husky or else you won't be able to commit new feature

yarn husky:install

Demos website are available:

You can check the default front here :

• https://dem01.aquila-cms.com/
• https://dem02.aquila-cms.com/

You can check the backoffice here :

• https://dem01.aquila-cms.com/demadmin
• https://dem02.aquila-cms.com/demadmin

Logins are :

AquilaCMS is licensed under OSL3