Joomla! VS Elanat

Joomla! is one of popular PHP content management systems (aka CMS). It is good for portal-like websites as well as blogging platforms. The first version was released in 2005 and, after long progress, the latest major one was done two years ago (on 2021-08-17).

CMSs have long been the backbone of digital content creation and delivery. Traditional CMS platforms, including open-source solutions like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, have been popular due to their ease of use and integration of content creation and presentation.

This post will be discussing a cutting-edge concept known as a Headless Visual CMS, or Headless Visual Content Management System. This is not your ordinary CMS; we are not referring to platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Sanity.io, Contentful, or anything like that. Instead, we're talking about a fusion of the best headless CMS features and the simplicity of site builders like Wix or Squarespace.

Website: https://www.joomla.org/

To help illustrate my point, here's a short rendition of my personal career trajectory. I started out studying Marine Biology. Then taught ESL. Then worked in non-profits in Mexico and Central America. Then became really interested in building online businesses to related to the travel industry. So while living in a small jungle community in Honduras, I decided to teach myself how to make websites. I chose PHP as my first programming language to learn (with CSS and HTML) using the Joomla framework. Living in a small town, which just received dialup internet and lacked running water, I wasn't exactly in tech-hub. But I dedicated the hours and spent many long days (and nights) wrestling with the concepts of a CMS, learning CSS (for IE6 no less) and figuring out how to make a really ugly website. Then an amazing thing happened. Word got out in the town I was living in that I knew how to make websites, and suddenly owner of the internet cafe I had been living at for the past 4 weeks asked me to make them a website. So I did! Then they referred me to others in the town who needed websites and soon I had a side hustle that was allowing me to learn and earn at the same time.

1. Joomla

Content/learning management systems, such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Moodle are fullstack web applications that you can configure and customize for course websites, blogs and e-commerce. Many if not all of these options are popular and open source.

You are complaining that the oldest PR (https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/21775) is 4 years old but you didn't talk about the very important truth you already know: it was a code dump, the contributor showed zero interest in making any improvements from the time they made the PR. Nobody can merge it if it's not worked on and as you can see the leadership DID ask the contributor in January if he's interested in addressing the problems. Zero feedback since.

Elanat CMS is a large and powerful content management system based on ASP.NET Core. Elanat CMS is a CMS-Framework that does not use any of the default ASP.NET Core frameworks (Razor Pages, MVC, Blazor). Elanat CMS is built under CodeBehind Framework. Elanat CMS and CodeBehind Framework both belong to Elanat team.

Elanat CMS has nearly 600 View files. With a mid-range processor it only takes 9 seconds to compile View. It is interesting to know that in previous versions, it took about 35 seconds to compile View pages in Elanat CMS.

The CodeBehind framework belongs to the Elanat team and its first version was released in 2023.

The Elanat team has again taken a new initiative and created the feature of sending template blocks through ViewData. You can now enclose template variables within {@#TempName} brackets so that double-quote ("{@#TempName}") characters do not cause problems in code blocks.

What is the concept of the module according to the Elanat team? Any interpreted programming language used on the server side is itself modular. That is, it is enough to copy executable files (py, php, rb, etc.) and other files (css, js, image, etc.) to the current project; A set of executable files and other related files are a module. In compiled programming languages or compiled frameworks such as C++, Java and .NET, creating a modular system is complex. Back-end framework developers should provide solutions for creating a modular system for web-based system developers.

The CodeBehind framework is a back-end type and belongs to the Elanat team. CodeBehind is a framework for ASP.NET Core and is a competitor to the default cshtml structure in ASP.NET Core.

aspx files used to be supported by Microsoft, but now the modern and powerful CodeBehind framework belonging to the Elanat team has given new life to aspx files. aspx extensions now support Razor syntax and return templates and are the most important competitor to ASP.NET Core's default cshtml structure while maintaining .NET Core features.

Elanat is a free and open-source CMS-Framework based on ASP.NET Core. Elanat was created to be a reliable system in .NET and an honor for .NET programmers and can be compared to other systems under PHP and JAVA.

Elanat repository link: https://github.com/elanatframework/Elanat