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decap-cms
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Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub
Following one of the comments in this thread I reviewed two other products in this space - https://www.staticcms.org/ and https://decapcms.org/ - and it looks like the webpages are almost a direct copy of one another, one in dark mode and one in light mode.
I'm a technical product marketer, and I find these type of landing page copying amusing to no end.
Good to see further development in this space. Would be interesting to see how it compares to Decap CMS https://decapcms.org/ and Static CMS https://www.staticcms.org/
Me personally I'd like to see something that supports easily creating and using different types of objects besides pages (such as: events, books, recipes, etc.), like content types and fields and views in wordpress or drupal. I think Hugo might support that in YAML or something.
In a nutshell:
1. You log in with your GitHub account.
2. You select the GitHub repo where your site/app is at (whether it's Next.js, 11ty, Hugo, Nuxt... as long as you're using flat files for content).
3. You add a single config file to your repo to define the content types and other settings (e.g. media folder).
4. Congrats: you now have a user friendly CMS to manage content + media BUT all changes are still tracked like regular commits (under your account) on GitHub.
I started using Jekyll around 2009 and over the course of the past 10+ years, I've helped build major sites and tiny blogs with Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js and more recently 11ty.
I still love it.
BUT once you're done building, managing content and media can be a bit of a pain. You have a few options:
- Edit files directly (on GitHub or your local). Good luck getting your colleagues on the marketing team to do that.
- Hook up a headless CMS like Contentful, Sanity, or Strapi. That works, but it's one more dependency and (IMHO) overkill in most cases.
- OR you could use something like [Decap CMS](https://decapcms.org/). Really cool project, but I've never been a fan of the UI/UX, and it's been a bit of a pain to setup (maybe that's just me).
I wanted something as simple as possible, preferably with nothing to install or deploy.
Back in 2018, I had built a prototype (Jekyll+) [1] with the idea of getting a CMS set up by just adding a single configuration file to your GitHub repository.
Pages CMS [2] is a continuation of that idea. It's 100% free and Open Source: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms.
If you don't want to use the online version because you're not comfortable signing up with your GitHub account, consider the following options:
- Use a fine-grained personal access token [3], there's an option on the login screen. There is still a bug if you try to access a repo that isn't part of your token scope, but I'll get it fixed in the next couple of days.
- Deploy it yourself (for free) on Cloudflare Pages. Literally 5 minutes of work max. I made a video walking you through the process [4].
- Check out the intro video on the front page [2] (a bit crap, but I'll get a better one up in the next few days).
I use it actively with a few other teams, I hope it will be of use to some of you.
I'm already working on adding a few nicer features, like collaborative editing and email invites (to let non-developers login without a GitHub account).
PS: I've spent the past 8+ years building a business and only recently got back into coding. I'd love pointers as to what I could do better (and how I can manage my Powerpoint PTSD).
[1]: https://github.com/hunvreus/jekyllplus/
[2]: https://pagescms.org
[3]: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
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9 best Git-based CMS platforms for your next project
Decap CMS, formerly Netlify CMS, is an extensible headless CMS built as a single-page React app. It’s an open source and completely free-to-use option that offers rich-text editing, real-time preview, and drag-and-drop media uploads.
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Ask HN: Tools for Managing Static Sites?
You can look into a Git-based CMS, such as https://github.com/decaporg/decap-cms
These typically are designed to support static site generators.
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Casidoo on TinaCMS
Did you consider https://decapcms.org/ (previously Netlify CMS)? I'm surprised it never really caught on as it seems a good fit for most small Markdown based sites. Looks like Smashing Magazine was using it before they moved to Tina CMS (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/01/migration-from-word...).
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
Products like [decap CMS](https://github.com/decaporg/decap-cms) try to bridge that gap, but I agree that this space needs to be further developed. In fact I think there needs to be a bunch more work to allow mere mortals to use version control and branch workflows in day to day work.
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
I've thought of something similar! A git-based flow for a friend's static portfolio site, where he can make text edits and upload images, and the site builds that content with HTML templates.
Not sure how the GitHub markdown editor would feel for the user. It might be really great, even for uploading images.
I was imagining a static admin page, WYSIWYG, that makes git pushes on submit. These were the headless CMSs that seem to be able to accomplish that:
And not git based, but similar idea: https://editable.website/
And this is what the admin edit page usually looks like: https://quick-edit-demo.vercel.app/admin/index.html#/collect...
But was taking a bit of work to configure.
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Looking for a statically deployed site-builder / CMS that stores content in GitHub
Since I made my post, I've also discovered Decap CMS. This looks fairly close to what I was looking for - it deploys as a static SPA alongside the site on a /admin route, allows login with Github (and several other platforms), and builds the site using a choice of static site generator like Gatsby/Hugo/Jekyll etc. The templates are relatively rigid by default though - page layouts are defined up front, and to add a page with a different layout you need to manually add some files to the repo. It seems like there's a way to work around this and add flexibility, but it needs a bit of custom React development. It seems like this might be worth the time investment for me though, since it's the closest thing I've found to what I need so far.
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Suggestions for a CMS
If you've got the content in .md and .json files and you just need a way to add or modify that content, I would recommend you look into decap CMS (formerly netlify CMS)
firecms
- Is there a better way to manage the Firestore Database?
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Web dev business owners, how do you build the websites if not using CMS?
May I introduce to you firecms.co
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What's the best CMS to start with if you're already a programmer?
Been looking into fireCms.co an extendable gui for interacting with firebase Firestone and storage .
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Any suggestions for an off-the-self UI for firestore.
I like FireCMS. It requires a little bit of customization but it's very flexible.
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Picking a CMS in 2023
We run firecms.co which is a React and Firebase-based CMS.
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Can you code a professional-looking blogging site with HTML, CSS and Javascript?
However, you can use Firebase for free. Firebase is a BaaS and offers a pretty generous free tier for hosting, database, etc. There are a few CMS options for Firebase. For my current portfolio, I use FireCMS to manage all the content on my site. After the content is updated in FireCMS, my frontend will retrieve the new data making it super easy to publish new content.
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wordpress-like service on firebase
A quick google found me this: https://firecms.co/
open source: firecms
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The best CMS on Firebase hosting.
I like FireCMS so far. It's a self hosted solution that is still in its early days but it works: https://firecms.co/. The have subreddit too: https://www.reddit.com/r/firecms/
What are some alternatives?
Strapi - 🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
tinacms - A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing
strapi-connector-firestore - Strapi database connector for Firestore database on Google Cloud Platform.
eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Directus - The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
sanity - Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Gridsome - ⚡️ The Jamstack framework for Vue.js
lottie-web - Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/
gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org