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Periodic is software used to tell more effective stories.

The medium by which stories are told continues to evolve, Periodic's modularity is designed to adapt to the changing application and content publishing landscape.

The platform is 100% open sourced, built on top of extremely modular components. There are extensions and themes available to transform your application into anything you can imagine. Getting started is easy, a little JavaScript, Node.js and MongoDB gets you on your way.

This wiki serves as the documentation home base for the project.

What can I build with Periodic

The platform is built with the UNIX / small utility / modular application design philosophy in mind. Content creators, developers, software engineers and entrepreneurs are encouraged to build large robust applications by integrating small single purposed extensions.

Periodic is a curated (not opinionated) workflow, that has an extremely malleable data model, using Express with MongoDB, the information architecture possibilities are limitless. The Admin extension allows for you to administer content and manage data in your MongoDB efficiently.

Applications built with Periodic range from simple blogs, complicated enterprise media publications, mobile application datastore, e-commerce platforms and more.