Silex, is a free and open source website builder in the cloud. Create websites directly in the browser without writing code. And it is suitable for professional designers to produce great websites without constraints. Silex is also known as the HTML5 editor.
Brought to you by Silex Labs team, promoting free software.
Links
- Silex official website
- Documentation wiki
- questions and answers, bug report, feature requests
- Silex license is GPL
- Road map and change log
News and tutorials
- See Silex wiki, there is a tutorials section
- Silex blog
- subscribe by email
Contact us and let people know about Silex
If you plan to host Silex for your clients, your users or the community, this section is for you.
Please note that there is also an effort to make Silex a desktop software (in opposition to online app), you can test the offline version of Silex from here
As of june 2017, around 100.000 lines of code. See github API count (includes blank lines and comments I guess):
JavaScript: 856643,
CSS: 82702,
HTML: 53727,
Shell: 1532
| File Type | Files | Lines of Code | Total lines |
|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | 422 | 138797 | 183644 |
| Json | 3 | 146 | 146 |
| Text | 12 | 0 | 1047 |
| Shell | 4 | 24 | 47 |
| Stylesheets | 90 | 17777 | 21504 |
| Html | 7 | 545 | 726 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JavaScript 404 9616 14937 50841
CSS 75 1580 1652 11394
LESS 20 141 87 1768
Markdown 10 334 0 657
YAML 14 3 1 581
HTML 7 177 22 527
JSON 3 0 0 146
Bourne Shell 4 6 13 28
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 541 12030 16712 66869
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are the upstream projects we use in Silex
- unifile, a nodejs library which provides a unified access to cloud services
- Cloud explorer, a file manager for the cloud services. It is a front end javascript app which connects to a unifile server
- Prodotype, Build components and generate a UI to make them editable in your app
- Ace, an excellent code editor in javascript
- Google closure compiler is used to build Silex, for its optimizations and the type system which helps with error detection
- jquery and jquery UI are included in the sites generated by Silex
- GLYPHICONS library of icons and symbols (CC license) and fontawesome icons