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Basic CMS: Allow users to add custom CSS

Logan Houston asked in Rails

For an App I am building, the platform provides users with a unique subdomain, which they can customize the layout by adding Rows, which have various templates to choose from. I want to allow users to upload their own CSS / JS to customize the look of the page.

Right now I am allowing them to upload a file to the platform, and then I render the file in page if present. I am wondering if there is a better approach to this.

Thanks for your help.

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Copy/paste into a text field which you can easily sanitise is probably a bit saver (for you and your users). Otherwise limiting users to change only certain aspects of the UI (colours, etc.) is often good enough. I've personally done almost full-custom layouts and the customer support for it was horrendous (“your pages are broken!”).

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