Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by somtum » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:06 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by digitalbase » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 9:37 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by EnderMB » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 10:44 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by darkseid » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 11:10 AM UTC

I'm using Contentful's (https://contentful.com) free plan to power the docs and blog for my website (https://resurfaceapp.com/docs/)

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by francois2 » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:17 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by blemming » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

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)

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by vr46 » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:36 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by neeksHN » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

blemming wrote: post #6

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.

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by rayascott » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

Can we assume you’re already familiar with https://headlesscms.org?

Re: Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend?

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Post by digisocialnet » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

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