Looks like an interesting project and compelling alternative to Gutenberg.
Remember to check the project website content for grammar mistakes, e.g. using Grammarly, since small mistakes can tarnish the project image of professionalism.
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
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Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#112While I think the combination of drag-and-drop / blocks and Svelte is really awesome , this unfortunately sits at the wrong end of the spectrum for me. What is is: a visual website builder where I can customise blocks using an online editor. What I'd like: an online interface that clients can use to add / change text, or make other small adjustments, for Svelte websites that I build offline using my own tools. The id…
You might like https://github.com/michael/editable-website
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
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Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#114The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help…
How do you feel about a Shopify approach where you use a pre crafted template, and have developers make tweaks to it if you need further features?
I love the idea. Telling our content folks, "you can choose 1 of 8 different templates" would be great. In actual practice it's more like, "Ok, we want to use part of that template and we need to modify part of that other one - marketing wants this live in 30 minutes'. So, giving them the "blocks" approach has worked for delivery. Frankly I'm embarrassed at the results it yields.
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#115The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help…
I'm building a GraphQL based headless CMS currently, ~2 months away from an official launch. It's currently wholly lacking official documentation but feel free to give the index page a peek and see if it's something you'd be interested in trying out! (or if you just have general feedback or learnings from your own experience, I'd love to hear that too!) https://brick-cms.com/
Yup! That's the avenue we took. A React app as an editor, content blocks are represented as a large JSON structure. That structure is stored in a DB via Drupal. (The editor is actually jacked into the Drupal page editor). We use GraphQL as our integration service. There's a shared "blocks" library so the editor can do the layout, store the JSON and the front-end website can interpret that JSON and use the same library to rebuild the component structure. I will say that it's a neat system. Some folks are VERY attached to it. I don't feel it fits the business needs so I'm investigating other options.
Best of luck on your CMS! I'm always intrigued by what others build - so please don't take my experience as any sort of criticism - I'd love to see your project succeed!
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#116While I think the combination of drag-and-drop / blocks and Svelte is really awesome , this unfortunately sits at the wrong end of the spectrum for me. What is is: a visual website builder where I can customise blocks using an online editor. What I'd like: an online interface that clients can use to add / change text, or make other small adjustments, for Svelte websites that I build offline using my own tools. The id…
Is your concern with the fact that clients can lay out their sites with blocks? Note that they can't edit any of the visual aspects unless you create a field for those specifically (e.g. making an image a circle or square). If it's with not being able to use a local IDE - that is something that's currently possible by bundling your Svelte components into vanilla JS and importing them into your Primo blocks & passing…
> Is your concern with the fact that clients can lay out their sites with blocks?
Not so much.
> If it's with not being able to use a local IDE - that is something that's currently possible by bundling your Svelte components into vanilla JS and importing them into your Primo blocks & passing along data as fields - but I'd give it a couple weeks before using it in production until we smooth it out.
Yes. As a developer I don't want to deal with WYSIWYG drag-n-drop interfaces. I want the freedom to develop using my already established workflows. What you suggest sounds like development for the Primo interface, i.e. Primo dictates the high-level structure and I can develop components for it. What I'd like is at the other end of the spectrum: I develop the entire website in Svelte and make it compatible with Primo by adhering to some constraints.
> But what you've described is essentially how I do my client projects - I build it all with code (usually reusing blocks from other projects) and hand off a site that literally any of my clients can edit on day one with minimal training.
Sounds like we're on the same page then :)
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#117While I think the combination of drag-and-drop / blocks and Svelte is really awesome , this unfortunately sits at the wrong end of the spectrum for me. What is is: a visual website builder where I can customise blocks using an online editor. What I'd like: an online interface that clients can use to add / change text, or make other small adjustments, for Svelte websites that I build offline using my own tools. The id…
Surreal CMS solves that problem exactly. Setup is done by FTP.
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#118Just what I was looking for, a happy medium between Wix and Hugo. Plus, nice intro to Supabase, which is also supa cool. Perfect for another project I am just starting.
Thanks for sharing. Nice work!
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#119I wish the self-hosted option was more self-hosted
Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
#120The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help…
"A headless CMS in our case would be a better approach" doesn't the client just get mad they can't do what they want? You can only build so many components.
Ideal world is a CMS that allows clients to easily change the HTML without code. That way it loads fast, has great SEO and stops developers re-inventing the wheel.
That was the reason I built https://versoly.com/ (Website builder + CMS), why does the client have to contact you to change the background color or add a new section?