Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

#1

Post by metahatem » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 7:49 AM UTC

What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

Re: Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

#2

Post by fiiv » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

What do you need from a CMS?

Re: Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

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Post by metahatem » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 7:53 AM UTC

fiiv wrote: post #2

What do you need from a CMS?

Lightweight, easy to maintain and perhaps customize. I guess I'm thinking of a better alternative to Wordpress really

Re: Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

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Post by HNNewer » Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 9:48 AM UTC

Wordpress?

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#5

Post by CM30 » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 6:38 AM UTC

Depends what you mean by web apps or how you're going to code them.

If you're using something like React or Vue, then I'm guessing any CMS used as a headless API would probably be ideal, since the system would only be used for creating content/the admin area.

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Post by gchokov » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 6:43 AM UTC

I wonder how many of you actually maintain and support enterprise CMS systems, like Sitecore or Sitefinity? Looks like the majority of the people here are homegrown hackers/devs, that either don't work in a company having a heavy CMS, or tend to prefer building everything themselves. Well, everything except the content management itself.

The tendency is to have very light front-end, while consuming the content from some services. At the same time, content clouds and headless CMSes haven't really taken off yet.

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Post by markwillis82 » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

This depends on the use-case. We have recently moved away (slightly) from using MODX as our main CMS, because the clients we have picked up need less content management but more bespoke functionality and better performance so have used things like Laravel +Voyager.

They are all managing content, but in different ways

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Post by LarryMade2 » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

For putting web apps in CMS?

Why risk your app on dependency of some CMS?

If you are looking for market in extending some popular CMS, then you probably should go for some more popular CMS, which currently is WordPress. Unless you are in an industry which has some nice CMS usage like Drupal or Joomla.

Re: Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for web apps?

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Post by pasta » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

If PHP, then ProcessWire [1].

ProcessWire is a Content Management System, not a CMS which includes a design or layout system like Wordpress.

So as a developer you are free to develop the front-end the way you like. Which is easy with the provided API.

I use it for API's, small and huge websites. Love it.

[1] https://processwire.com/

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Post by bobbynarvy » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:35 PM UTC

pasta wrote: post #9

If PHP, then ProcessWire [1]. ProcessWire is a Content Management System, not a CMS which includes a design or layout system like Wordpress. So as a developer you are free to develop the front-end the way you like. Which is easy with the provided API. I use it for API's, small and huge websites. Love it. [1] https://processwire.com/

I second this.