Prose

What Prose is

Prose is a free, open-source web interface for managing website content stored on GitHub. Users can create, edit, and delete files, then save those changes directly to GitHub. It provides advanced support for Jekyll sites and Markdown, including syntax highlighting, a formatting toolbar, and draft previews rendered in the site’s full layout. Prose is available as a hosted service at Prose.io or can run on a user’s own server. The source code is published under the BSD-3-Clause license. The project describes publishing through GitHub Pages or through a GitHub webhook server that users configure themselves. Settings allow adjustments for project needs, and the listed platforms are web and self-hosted. Prose was created and maintained by Development Seed, a creative data visualization and mapping team based in Washington, DC. The repository directs questions to the #prose IRC channel, says the project is maintained by the community, and notes that it is looking for new maintainers. Prose has no listed content workflow beyond its GitHub-based editing and publishing approach.