Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?
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I like forestry.io. it's not API based, so you just use stock Hugo backed by git. The change you make get committed back to git. So the nice thing is you're not tied to them. If they go away, you still have Hugo and can generate manually. You can host at netlify or AWS. Most the other static CMS are API based, so all your data is with them. If the go away, aodoes your site maintainability.
I have been using https://getmesh.io/ for a while now, the developers are very helpful, the features are excellent, the underlying architecture and frameworks are great, and documentation excellent. Thumbs up.
What is even better: You can host it yourself and it is free.
https://github.com/gentics/mesh
https://getmesh.io/docs/beta/administration-guide.html#_lice...
https://github.com/gentics/mesh
https://getmesh.io/docs/beta/administration-guide.html#_lice...
I use Cockpit or FeathersJS.. sometimes even Wordpress WP-JSON :-/ I'm looking for something better, but not really into using a SaaS.
https://getcockpit.com
https://getcockpit.com
I would recommend Prismic.io. They have what I have searched for on anothers services: slices. This allows you to have different block and empower people to use them as they want to create landing pages for instance.
that slice feature remind me of how http://www.webhook.com do the admin area. it is nice that someone else is doing that as webhook is "dead" for some time.
On the .NET side, I've had a lot of success with Umbraco, using it as a headless CMS to provide content for a Node/Express application.
https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoRestApi
https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoRestApi
Can we assume you’re already familiar with https://headlesscms.org?
I'm using Contentful's (https://contentful.com) free plan to power the docs and blog for my website (https://resurfaceapp.com/docs/)
I've been asking me the same question to switch a static site to basic CMS.
Contentful.com seems to be the leader.
Graphcms looks nice, GraphQL is a promising technology to only fetch the content/relations you need to render that page.
I was thinking about using Airtable for even a simpler MVP
Contentful.com seems to be the leader.
Graphcms looks nice, GraphQL is a promising technology to only fetch the content/relations you need to render that page.
I was thinking about using Airtable for even a simpler MVP
using Airtable as backend sounds interesting.
if you are looking for an open source self hosteable option, there is directus (https://github.com/directus/directus) or cockpit(https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit)
What's unfortunate about Directus and Cockpit, is they still have a hard dependency on a PHP.
If I'm going headless, the last thing I want to do is setup a PHP stack.
If I'm going headless, the last thing I want to do is setup a PHP stack.
I don't know what is hard about setting up a PHP stack. "yum install" and you're on your way.
It's certainly no more work than setting up nodejs, ruby, python, a go compiler, etc.
It's certainly no more work than setting up nodejs, ruby, python, a go compiler, etc.