A powerful, yet simple, visual website builder for creating high-performance static websites.

• Visual Page Builder - Build pages fast with drag-and-drop widgets, blocks, and live preview
• Theme Presets - Start from a blank slate or polished presets, then fine-tune colors, typography, layouts, and global styles
• Hybrid Storage - SQLite keeps project metadata reliable while pages, menus, themes, and uploads stay portable on disk
• Media Pipeline - Upload once, get optimized image variants, metadata editing, and usage tracking built in
• Static Export - Ship secure, high-performance static sites with clean output and no runtime dependency
• Desktop App - Run Widgetizer as a native Electron app on Windows and macOS

Get the latest desktop builds from the latest GitHub release:

• Download for Windows
• Download for macOS

On the release page, grab the .exe installer for Windows or the .dmg file for macOS.

Visit docs.widgetizer.org for guides on themes, presets, project workflows, export, and customization.

• Node.js: >= 20.19.5
• npm: >= 8

npm install
copy .env.example .env  # Windows
# cp .env.example .env  # macOS/Linux
npm run dev:all

This starts the API on http://localhost:3001 and the frontend on http://localhost:3000.

npm run electron:dev

For local desktop testing, this runs the API server, the frontend dev server, and Electron together.

npm run server              # Backend only
npm run dev                 # Frontend only
npm run test                # Backend tests
npm run test:frontend       # Frontend tests
npm run lint                # Lint src/ and server/
npm run electron:build:mac  # Build macOS app
npm run electron:build:win  # Build Windows app

For the normal browser-based development flow, open http://localhost:3000 after npm run dev:all.

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.