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What is your Headless CMS of choice ?

HakimRaissi on April 10, 2022

Hello everyone. So recently I discovered the world of CMS like Sanity or GraphCMS. Well, I already knew WordPress before but never paid attention ...
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James 'Dante' Midzi

I'm actually doing a series on these 😅

For client sites - Contenful
For my stuff - GraphCMS
For when I want to structure stuff a specific way - Sanity
Then on the rare occasions i want to deal with databases - Strapi

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HakimRaissi

I'm definitely going to check your blog post about it. Does content feel more beginner-friendly? or just easier to use for a non-tech person?

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James 'Dante' Midzi

From the users I asked when doing my tests, It's a nicer experience for a non tech person.

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HakimRaissi

Amazing work here. Wish i could build my own digital solutions soon lol

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Dashpilot

Thanks!

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Adrian Saiz

Directus, now looking into Strapi

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HakimRaissi

Never heard of it, even in articles talking about CMS in general. Do you recommend it ?

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Adrian Saiz

Yes 100%! Directus v9 is amazing and pretty famous too 🤔

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Ben Read

Having used many over the years, I really love Webiny. It's serverless so you can host it on your own cloud. It has a rich feature set, like file manager with CDN propagation and no-code content model creation. Check it out! webiny.com/enterprise-serverless-c...

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HakimRaissi

i'll take a look at it and see if i match with it.

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Makar

WordPress REST API

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HakimRaissi

Wait i didn't know WordPress had an open API. But why use the API and not the user interface directly ? (it might be a stupid question so sorry in advance lol)

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Makar

In case you want a robust frontend made with React or vue etc

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ImTheDeveloper

Contentful and storyblok

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Erik Sachse

With a little tinkering I use Kirby and their REST API getkirby.com/

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Bartosz Gleń

DatoCMS is a good option for a small website, I've used it for several projects and It was pretty comfortable to work with, you can use GraphQL to get the exact data you want.

Strapi looks great, but the requirement of 2GB RAM for deployment is an absolute deal breaker for me...

I used Cockpit CMS for my last project - it's OK if you don't need to change the defaults, but editing config requires you to directly modify PHP files, and the docs are lacking.

I prefer self-hosted CMSs, as the ones in SaaS model are very pricey beyond the free tier.

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Andrew Baisden

Strapi and Sanity for me.

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Pratham Agrawal

Canonic works really well as a headless CMS. You can also setup alerts and triggers for your data combined with custom APIs and integrations.

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