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Oleg Proskurin
Oleg Proskurin

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Top Headless CMS 2024

Thrilled to announce a series of reviews on the hottest Headless CMS platforms exclusively on the FR Blog! 🎉

Whether you're a developer, designer, or content creator, the in-depth overviews will help you choose the best Headless CMS for your React/NextJS projects. 🛠️✨

Here's the lineup of the top CMS platforms reviewed:

  1. Sanity Sanity Review 🌟
  2. Storyblok Storyblok Review
  3. Contentful Contentful Review
  4. Strapi Strapi Review
  5. Ghost CMS Ghost CMS Review
  6. Prismic Prismic Review
  7. Directus Directus Review
  8. Hygraph Hygraph Review
  9. Kentico Kontent Kentico Kontent Review
  10. Payload CMS Payload CMS Review

Dive into these reviews and share your thoughts! 💬 Engage with a professional community that geeks out over the latest in headless CMS technology. 💻🧩


In my free time, I've been building a community dedicated to the Headless approach in web development. It's a squad on daily.dev where we post and discuss articles about Headless CMS and Composable eCommerce. If you're interested and want to dive into the world of modern technologies, I'd love for you to join the squad here.

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So what are you waiting for? Head over and become part of an amazing community of like-minded professionals. Let's shape the future of web development together! 💪👩‍💻👨‍💻


Additionally, here are some bonus CMS suggestions from the blog's amazing readers. Their active participation and broad perspectives are invaluable, and these recommendations might interest you too:

Huge thanks to the amazing readers for their insightful suggestions! Feel free to share your experiences with these CMS in the comments, and let me know if you'd like to see a review of any CMS from the bonus list. Your input shapes the content and keeps the community thriving!

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Pro Tip: AI image generators are pretty bad at generating text.

That said, I am looking for a hedess CMS CMS for my peverect. Possibly for my Recct projeccts too 😂

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Oleg Proskurin

Yep, it's still not super good, but they made great progress last time, and if you need absolute control, there are additional tools for that. On the other hand, there are a lot of use cases when tools like Dalle 3 can play well

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Stokry

😂

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Kairat619

DecapCMS

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Oleg Proskurin

Never faced it but I like their landing 😊

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EchoGlobal

One more modern and nice headless CMS is DatoCMS: datocms.com

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Oleg Proskurin

I agree DatoCMS is pretty good

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Oziel Perez

Directus should be #1 on this list. It's FOSS, Vue-based, uses any RDMS and works with your DB schema rather than impose one on you. It really gets out of your way as much as possible

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Oleg Proskurin

Directus is definitely taking the lead position. But what would you say to people who prefer React-based CMS?

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Oziel Perez

We need to stop with React. It is a convoluted framework that causes so many unnecessary hassles. I've tried it with Strapi and it took too long to build custom extensions for that platform. We need to promote more Vue and Svelte projects!

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Anderson carry

With the rise of cross-platform solutions, hybrid app developers like Hoffnmazor are opening new doors for businesses. Their expertise in technologies like React Native and commitment to delivering seamless experiences across devices make them a valuable partner in navigating the mobile landscape.

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Oleg Proskurin

if you develop a cross-platform app, you even more need an omnichannel backend right? e.g headless CMS

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Almir

You may need to update your list with keystonejs.com/ also :)

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Rasmus Schultz

peverect! 🤣

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fgatti675

FireCMS is amazing!

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Kraig Burrows

Kirby Cms was pretty decent too