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Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?
- digitalbase 9y agoI'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
- tuananh 8y agousing Airtable as backend sounds interesting.
- EnderMB 9y agoOn 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/Umbraco-CMS https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoRestApi https://github.com/umbraco/UmbracoRestApi
- darkseid 9y agoI'm using Contentful's (https://contentful.com https://contentful.com) free plan to power the docs and blog for my website (https://resurfaceapp.com/docs/ https://resurfaceapp.com/docs/)
- francois2 9y agoI 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.
- brunobriante 9y agothat slice feature remind me of how http://www.webhook.com http://www.webhook.com do the admin area. it is nice that someone else is doing that as webhook is "dead" for some time.
- blemming 9y agoif you are looking for an open source self hosteable option, there is directus (https://github.com/directus/directus https://github.com/directus/directus) or cockpit(https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit)
- neeksHN 9y agoWhat'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.
- brianmurphy 9y agoI 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.
- vr46 9y agoI have been using https://getmesh.io/ 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.
- rebugheliz 8y agoWhat is even better: You can host it yourself and it is free. https://github.com/gentics/mesh https://github.com/gentics/mesh https://getmesh.io/docs/beta/administration-guide.html#_license https://getmesh.io/docs/beta/administration-guide.html#_lice...
- rayascott 9y agoCan we assume you’re already familiar with https://headlesscms.org https://headlesscms.org?
- digisocialnet 9y agoI 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
- feistypharit 9y agoI 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.