Headless CMS for Blog, looking for recommendation.
Hello,
I have built a blog with Gatsby, but I'm to lazy to write posts in markdown files.
Is there good, simple and cheap solution for Headless CMS?
I have tried Wordpress, but it not works for me well.
Thanks in advance
Trending on Indie Hackers
We use Prismic on Gatsby. It's a learning curve to get started but it's really powerful once you're into it.
I think for me the most useful thing has been the Content Slices feature. That was the AHA moment.
I did a project with prismic and Gatsby too. I was frustrated by limitations of their wysiwyg but agree the slice zones really enable some flexible content authoring. Would like to try Strapi on a project to compare against.
Do you mean that they don’t have blockquote in their wysiwyg? That’s one of the oddest product choices for a CMS.
Yeah, and I recall having issues with alignment, justifying and generally applying nuanced styles within wysiwyg content. I think it’s possible but not easy, especially with everything else that you need to digest on maybe your first gatsby and prismic project. I also tried to import 5 years of Wordpress post data to prismic and realized how different the content structure is and abandoned that idea.
Prismic seems cool, I'll try to set up it now.
Thanks a lot
Just wired up a blog using Ghost with Next.js and it went shockingly well. One of the best dev experiences I've had in awhile.
https://ghost.org/docs/api/v3/nextjs/
Contentful is my favorite. Interface is simple yet powerful. And the JSON API is easy to work with. Plus, you never have to install updates and it’s free for smaller sites like blogs. https://www.contentful.com/
Also, check out https://strapi.io/. Open-source and quite solid.
I've been running sanity.io for quite a while now and have been impressed. I like how they've set up the editing studio and their way of handling structured content. They're also very responsive on their slack if you have any questions.
https://www.sanity.io/
Sanity is sick! Love how simple it is..
I've used Ghost, Contentful, Prismic, Netlify and even source CMS Strapi.io.
But found Sanity to be the best!
It provides editor for the content editor but under the hood, it provides a powerful headless CMS that developers like myself create structure and easily push and edit content too!
We are working on open source content builder Paperbits. This is like a head for headless CMS or you can implement several REST APIs to store content metadata. Media can be referenced from CDN or cloud storage. The result will be the static site and you can host it anywhere.
Most of html and css you can do in visual editor. All styles are managed in the style guide. If you change a style in style guide this will change appearance for all html elements which use it. More details are available on the website
https://paperbits.io
You can check a demo and example how to use it with Google firebase backend. The whole solution can be run on free tier.
Also I work on an example how to use Paperbits content builder with netlify.
A good solution might be https://notice.studio. It's a no-code headless CMS. You can publish your blog, but also your FAQs, documentation, testimonials, etc!
I just finished post how to host and edit website on Netlify free tier
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-set-up-a-no-code-cloud-solution-to-manage-website-content-for-free-b15ca41b16
You do not need to follow a specific folder structure and write posts in markdown.
Just create content in the visual editor and commit to GitHub.
Feel free to ask any question
I've been using ButterCMS, it's not really cheap but not prohibitively expensive, pretty happy with it.
ButterCMS is a total turn off, because of price.
But, thanks
+1 for ghost and next.js
The ghost UI/Editor is really great to work with and next.js combined with the zeit hosting is one of the best developer experiences I've had.
Ghost:
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/ghost
https://ghost.org/
Next.js/zeit
https://nextjs.org/
https://zeit.co/
Now I have a lot of options to consider.
Thanks a lot
If you want something self hosted, https://strapi.io is nice.
At the other end of the spectrum, if you want to go all corporate, https://www.contentful.com.
Are you looking for open source or SaaS?
I will consider both. :)
This comment was deleted 4 years ago.
Good idea.. I'm thinking also building somekind of small CMS, REST based CRUD Backend , because it's so much options, but configuring or price is one ring of hell..
Check Paperbits content builder, you just need to implement REST based CRUD Backend to store content metadata. Media can be referenced from CDN or cloud storage. The result will be the static site and can be hosted anywhere.
This comment was deleted 5 years ago.