Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
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Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#22https://getkirby.com/ is nice, but not open-source. https://getgrav.org/ seems similar. https://bolt.cm/ is perhaps not as sparse, but the best flat file CMS I've found (SQLite).
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#23https://getkirby.com/ is nice, but not open-source. https://getgrav.org/ seems similar. https://bolt.cm/ is perhaps not as sparse, but the best flat file CMS I've found (SQLite).
Kirby is really good. I've tried it a few weeks ago for a simple website (for which I would have used Wordpress) and it did the job perfectly. It's fast, efficient, has a great documentation and is really easy to set up. I have nothing bad to say about this.
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#24> If you're interested in kicking the tires and are comfortable with dev environments, then install the app via these terminal commands. So is this actually an open-source project, or is the open source just intended as a preview, and it's expected that production workloads would always be in the SaaS version? It looks great but I'm a bit confused by the intention.
Same here. The fact that you can request for a closed beta access suggest that it's not something you could host yourself, but at the end of the page it shows how to test it yourself. Pretty confusing.
Edit: It says on the medium post: "This is a great way to get familiar with the app, and prep your site(s) for deploying on the Vapid hosted service." So yeah looks like it's going to be a SaSS.
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#25https://getkirby.com/ is nice, but not open-source. https://getgrav.org/ seems similar. https://bolt.cm/ is perhaps not as sparse, but the best flat file CMS I've found (SQLite).
I can recommend Bolt CMS for its declarative definition of content types and overall simplicity. (It's not limited to SQLite, though.)
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#26Unrelated, but “Vapid” is an interesting naming choice. The word has a clearly negative connotation, no?
Yeah, though "Wii" sounds like urination, "iPad" sounds like a sanitary product, not even to mention "Virgin".. and, well, no one cares about those anymore :-)
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#27Nice, was actually checking out Jekyll the other day but this looks 10x better for the purpose of getting a simple blog up and running without all the WP bloat.
Will give it a try next week!
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#28Is the name actually "rapid" but as said by Barry Kripke? But a more serious question is, how is this different from the hundreds of other CMS? I am not attacking, but just trying to understand what motivated this and why someone might choose this. As someone who would need a CMS in the near future I am interested in this genuinely. Don't say RTFM because I did, but I didn't find anything like "why use vapid?". Is th…
It seems to be meant for people who build a lot of customizable, relatively simple websites. The devs write the HTML & CSS, and Vapid automatically generates admin dashboards for content management.
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#29Nice, was actually checking out Jekyll the other day but this looks 10x better for the purpose of getting a simple blog up and running without all the WP bloat. Will give it a try next week!
I've quickly played with it just now and I can't see how you could use Vapid to create new blog posts. It seems to be a simple dashboard for existing content, but I couldn't figure out how to create new content.
Re: Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
#30Neat, haven't played with it but the execution looks great!
Have been working on something similar for a specific niche of CMSs, do you handle primitive lists/lists of complex types? (E.g. to create nav bars that can be modified by the CMS)