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title: SummerCMS documentation
description: SummerCMS is a content management framework for Go, inspired by WinterCMS.
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# SummerCMS documentation

SummerCMS keeps what makes WinterCMS productive (plugins that extend each other, YAML-driven admin forms and lists, console scaffolding) and compiles an application into a single Go binary. The framework modules, the application's plugins, the embedded admin SPA and the console commands all ship as one executable.

Start with [Installation](setup/installation.md) to set up the toolchain and the `summer` CLI. If you know WinterCMS, read [Coming from WinterCMS](setup/coming-from-wintercms.md) for a map of its concepts to SummerCMS. The API reference section has one page per framework module.

## Where to start

- [Setup](setup/introduction.md): what SummerCMS is, installation, configuration and the move from WinterCMS.
- [Architecture](architecture/introduction.md): the single binary, Go modules, the application lifecycle and the request lifecycle.
- [Plugins](plugins/registration.md): registering a plugin, scheduling, extending other plugins and testing.
- [Console](console/introduction.md): the `summer` tool, the application binary's commands and writing your own.