give keystatic a try: https://keystatic.com
- open source
- configuration files for the cms data model
- github based (no database)
- yml, markdown, json output
- simple and aesthetic
No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)
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Re: No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)
#42This risks making your blog invisible to search engines, unless their crawler goes to the significant additional expense of either executing JavaScript or developing a custom spider to identify and load the JSON directly.
Re: No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)
#43The author may be conflating rendering and content management.
There's been a huge push in the past few years for "headless CMS": content is managed entirely separately from the actual website or app where it's leveraged.
In this specific case, YAML frontmatter MDX along with Next.js, Gatsby or similar would have done the trick.
Shameless plug: if you want to focus on managing content rather than juggling YAML and git, I'm building Pages CMS [1]. It adds a user friendly interface on top of GitHub when dealing with flat files.
Re: No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)
#44> We recognized that a full-on SSG wasn't going to do the job. Why? The article doesn't explain. > it turns out that it's not so easy to "just use a CMS." Like many others, we initially looked into popular ones like Ghost, Hugo, Jekyll, and Publii I don't know what Publii is; but Hugo and Jekyll aren't CMS's. > all I really wanted was to be able to write Markdown, and then get some React Components that were styled w…
Publii is one of the few competent attempts at a desktop CMS app.
They do a lot of things right.