I’ve been working on a minimal blog/site framework called Deadlight. It’s text-first, built entirely on Cloudflare Workers + D1 (SQLite), and comes with:
Markdown support
Built-in auth
Dark/light themes
No backend/server — everything runs on the edge
Under 150KB total size
No build step, no framework, no database to manage. Just deploy and go.
I built it because I wanted something between a static site generator and a full CMS — but that could run completely on Cloudflare’s free tier. I also wanted to own my data and deployment without managing a VPS or container.
It’s not perfect, but it works. Setup takes ~5 minutes if you already have a Cloudflare account.
I’ve been working on a minimal blog/site framework called Deadlight. It’s text-first, built entirely on Cloudflare Workers + D1 (SQLite), and comes with:
Markdown support
Built-in auth
Dark/light themes
No backend/server — everything runs on the edge
Under 150KB total size
No build step, no framework, no database to manage. Just deploy and go.
I built it because I wanted something between a static site generator and a full CMS — but that could run completely on Cloudflare’s free tier. I also wanted to own my data and deployment without managing a VPS or container.
It’s not perfect, but it works. Setup takes ~5 minutes if you already have a Cloudflare account.
Live demo: https://deadlight.boo
GitHub: https://github.com/gnarzilla/deadlight-bootstrap
Would love feedback from folks here — especially thoughts on edge-first architecture and if you'd want to build on something like this.
Happy to answer questions about Cloudflare Workers/D1 too.