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How to Build a Static CMS with Roots, Contentful, and Netlify

13 points by joshrowley 12y ago

Khao 12y ago
This seems really complicated and expensive (if you're not using the free tier of each of the services) for something that could be really simple.
- jenius 12y ago
  The free tiers for both are quite extensive actually, so we easily fit in, even with a very large amount of content.
- joshrowley 12y ago
  I'm curious, by really simple are you referring to using a traditional out of the box CMS like Wordpress? This works great for us as a digital agency because we usually have multiple projects going on at once that need to perform at scale immediately (traffic from large brand media buys and sharing on social platforms), so we needed tools to be able to manage static content. If you have different ideas on how to allow non-developers to manage a static site (without having to edit our code repo), I'd love to chat :-).
  - Khao 12y ago
    This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested
- syntern 12y ago
  +1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far. Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?
  - Khao 12y ago
    This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested
- mjsweet 12y ago
  Maybe Cockpit CMS could be used? Self hosted CaaS style CMS and seems to have a REST interface. I wonder if it could be used with static generators? http://getcockpit.com/ http://getcockpit.com/. I Have been thinking about this for a while and would love to see it work with metalsmith.io, Assemble.io or maybe even my favourite harp.js.
  - syntern 12y ago
    Thanks for mentioning Cockpit CMS, it looks great!

13 points by joshrowley 12y ago

Khao 12y ago

This seems really complicated and expensive (if you're not using the free tier of each of the services) for something that could be really simple.

jenius 12y ago
The free tiers for both are quite extensive actually, so we easily fit in, even with a very large amount of content.
joshrowley 12y ago
I'm curious, by really simple are you referring to using a traditional out of the box CMS like Wordpress? This works great for us as a digital agency because we usually have multiple projects going on at once that need to perform at scale immediately (traffic from large brand media buys and sharing on social platforms), so we needed tools to be able to manage static content. If you have different ideas on how to allow non-developers to manage a static site (without having to edit our code repo), I'd love to chat :-).
- Khao 12y ago
  This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested
syntern 12y ago
+1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far. Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?
- Khao 12y ago
  This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested
mjsweet 12y ago
Maybe Cockpit CMS could be used? Self hosted CaaS style CMS and seems to have a REST interface. I wonder if it could be used with static generators? http://getcockpit.com/ http://getcockpit.com/. I Have been thinking about this for a while and would love to see it work with metalsmith.io, Assemble.io or maybe even my favourite harp.js.
- syntern 12y ago
  Thanks for mentioning Cockpit CMS, it looks great!