wp-graphql-jwt-authentication VS CraftCMS

JWT authentication plugins: JWT WP REST and JWT WP GraphQL.

Let's start with installing WPGraphQL JWT Authentication. Open the link and Download the .zip from Github and add to your plugins directory, then activate the plugin. JWT uses a Secret token defined on the server to validate the signing of tokens. Generate your secret token from WordPress Secret Token and copy the NONCE_SALT. Next Step is to define the secret token. You can define a Secret in WordPress file wp-config.php or Or you can use the filter graphql_jwt_auth_secret_key to set a Secret. Add your secret token and paste below line in wp-config:

That's all you need to set up a NextJS app using a local WordPress site running in Docker containers. You can start developing the PHP and JavaScript for your project. What you do next is up to you. Figuring our deployment and authentication as well as coding the app will come next.

The most typical approach is having a CMS admin panel sit somewhere on the server; everyone with an account uses this. This is a very convenient approach, especially when working with a team. This way, many people can work on different articles simultaneously without worrying about potential conflicts or overwriting stuff. The only con is related to security - everyone can try to get inside, and if you forget to update our CMS or some user have a weak password, it can be someone outside of our team. WordPress, Drupal, CraftCMS, or Ghost are perfect examples of such CMSs.

I checked one website in that list, it uses CraftCMS, which apparently has htmx bundled. (https://github.com/craftcms/cms/tree/main/src/web/assets/htm...)

Would be interesting to know which other CMS'es make use of htmx (and to what degree).

PHP has a lot of top tier CMSes. IMHO bunch of them are even better than Statamic. Craft CMS (https://craftcms.com/) is a lot more mature database based CMS. Kirby (https://getkirby.com/) is better at flat-file and has a lot better admin interface. Twill (https://twillcms.com/) is better integrated in Laravel and is fully open-source. Statamic mostly feels like it's sitting besides Laravel and they call themselves Laravel based for marketing.

You're basically looking for any CMS that supports headless mode. E.g. Strapi (https://strapi.io/, NodeJS based), CraftCMS (https://craftcms.com/, PHP based) or countless others.

Craft CMS

It's built on Craft CMS. Makes the relationships between elements (a match and a player, for example) super easy.

Is there a reason you aren’t using an existing CMS? There’s a lot that provide all the UI functionality you are talking about and then expose it via a API to be consumed in your front end. https://craftcms.com is one option I’ve had good success with.