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Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?
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#12I use my email inbox as my cms.
Emails (can) have attachments, a subject line, delivery time stamp, and formatted text as content which means that for many use cases, an email is an effective CMS.
E.g., blog posts and static pages like /about or /faqs can easily be done using emails…just needs a bit of creativity.
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#13At my last job, we went from Drupal 7 to a headless CMS after evaluating several options. Our finalists included:
Drupal 9: Would've been better, but it's a PITA to set up and maintain. It's also the second most-dreaded tech framework (behind only Angular) on the Stack survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre... I will never use Drupal or work for a company that insists on it again.
Contentful, the industry giant, would not give us a quote without a NDA. In hindsight this turned out to be a blessing; we found much more suitable small businesses.
DatoCMS (who we ultimately chose): Really good dev support, small startup means their own devs/founders are very active in support and co-development. Good documentation and examples. Does everything that we need, great plugin support, good choice of fields and schemas. The editors and departments we tested this with, most of whom aren't techies, loved it. I enjoyed it a lot too, especially being able to hang out with the devs on their forums and Slack.
GraphCMS: Similar in many ways to DatoCMS but more powerful (writable/mutable GraphQL API), more extensible schema, better for devs but editors didn't like it as much. This IMO is the most "technically excellent" vendor-supported headless CMS and would've won my "dev's choice" award.
Other similar options: Grav, Sanity.io, Prismic.io, CosmicCMS, ButterCMS, TakeShape, Strapi, Storkyblok, Kontent, Ghost, Directus... here's a good list: https://www.cmswire.com/web-cms/13-headless-cmss-to-put-on-y...
Airtable: Surprisingly capable with its REST API, for the super simple use cases. You'll have to handle permissions and caching yourself though (i.e. proxy the API through Cloudflare or similar). A really good way to get a simple website up and running.
Wordpress with ACF: You can turn off the built-in Wordpress-y-ness and just use ACF if that's better, but your client probably still wouldn't like it. Still waaaaaaaaaaay better than Drupal.
There are a bunch of open-source and/or self-hosted options, but IMO being able to move to a vendor-supported solution with built-in GraphQL endpoints was a DREAM. It meant being able to fully do a Jamstack with Next.js and Vercel or Gatsby/Netlify, and never having to touch the backend again.
Your client edits the content in someone else's CMS, you maintain the frontend, and it all just magically works with no infra maintenance... really frees up support.
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#14CrafCMS. Beautiful back-end, clean, well-structured DIY templating based on twig (or use the built-in API), cheap to host, secure, designed with dev and admin ergonomics in mind, constantly improved. Zero BS of any kind, just considerate design, good engineering, responsive support and community.
$300 for the pro version (adds unlimited users with granular permissions and graphql), free-forever single admin tier.
A solid, rich ecosystem of plugins. Supports headless out of the box.
My experience with it, and with Pixel&Tonic, the intentionally small, solid and profitable company behind it have been beyond delightful.
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#15CrafCMS. Beautiful back-end, clean, well-structured DIY templating based on twig (or use the built-in API), cheap to host, secure, designed with dev and admin ergonomics in mind, constantly improved. Zero BS of any kind, just considerate design, good engineering, responsive support and community. $300 for the pro version (adds unlimited users with granular permissions and graphql), free-forever single admin tier. A s…
CraftCMS
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#16Bludit CMS https://www.bludit.com/
Bludit CMS is small, faster and flat-file based CMS. control via API and control GatsbyJS from the API. it can use git repository synchronization with remote content plugins.
https://docs.bludit.com/en/api/introduction https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-source-bludit/ https://docs.bludit.com/en/how-to/how-to-setup-remote-conten...
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#17hugo all the way
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#18wordpress is the worst - except for all the others.
i think most people hate WP because, well, a bunch of reasons, but reason #1 is usually speed -- WP is super-slow if you don't host it well.
so, find a blazing-fast WP host. your client will be like, 'ok'.
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#19We us Drupal at work (university), which theoretically does headless, but Sanity.io is the one that has turned my head. It's headless, but it also let's you code the admin components.
Drupal is so much better now with config in code and use of composer. The new release cycle has made it much easier to upgrade, with small steady improvements (compared to upgrading between versions of the past). The new admin UI is great too. I believe headless for drupal is improving. jrockowitz posted a video on his blog with use of schema.org
Now that is interesting. His work on webform is really impressive. I feel like the next step for CMS is going to be content model and UI component interoperability through shared semantics (e.g. the Block Protocol [1] for UI). I wonder if this Blueprint module could be the correlate for content models.
If any monolithic CMS is going to make it through to that far shore, I feel like it will be Drupal.
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#20Statamic has been great for us.