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• decap-cms

  80 17,510 9.2 JavaScript

  A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

  

> The lack of options in this space really baffles me.

There's quite a few commercial ones but not open source ones.

> Netlify CMS has been the best solution in this space, and despite many thousands of stars it’s abandoned now.

I've noticed this too (https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/releases) which makes me nervous about using it for client projects.

• outstatic

  16 2,323 9.2 TypeScript

  Outstatic - A static CMS for Next.js

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• wasmer.io

  3 22 6.3 JavaScript

  Discontinued The Wasmer.io website

  

This is awesome. I was looking for something similar (either fully static or a headless CMS) for using it on the Wasmer website blog [1], which is already using Next.js.

We'll give it a try... thanks for the great work!

[1]: https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer.io

• junco-cms

  1 9 3.5 JavaScript

  Minimal git-based CMS in Node.js

  

This sounds cool. We wrote a git-based CMS[0] that is a little different. It has a nice-enough UI for creating and editing markdown documents, which are stored in git. And then it has a JSON API so that your main site can fetch the content and style / format however it likes. Users log in with OAuth or local passwords and their edits end up as git commits that are attributed to them.

[0]: https://github.com/frameable/junco-cms

• cms

  33 3,414 9.9 PHP

  The core Laravel CMS Composer package

  

For the PHP folks there are a few options.

Ones that I've used include:

- Statamic https://statamic.com

- Jigsaw https://jigsaw.tighten.com/

• temporal_tables

  6 584 4.9 PLpgSQL

  Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for external c extension. (by nearform)

  

One of these Postgres-based implementations of SQL:2011's temporal versioning features might get you close enough:

- https://github.com/nearform/temporal_tables

• periods

  5 238 2.4 PLpgSQL

  PERIODs and SYSTEM VERSIONING for PostgreSQL

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pg_bitemporal

  7 140 0.0 PLpgSQL

  Bitemporal tables in Postgres

  

• temporal_tables

  16 898 4.2 C

  Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension

- https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables

I haven't used any of these but I work on https://xtdb.com which is also implementing SQL:2011's temporal features :)

• Kirby

  56 1,199 9.9 PHP

  Kirby's core application folder

  

What OP is building is not a typical "flat file CMS".

Flat File CMS are typical CMS systems (often times written in PHP) that run on the server, but use files (often Markdown/Frontmatter) as their data layer (instead of a DB like Wordpress, Drupal, etc.) – if you're looking for a really nice Flat File CMS take a look at Kirby (https://getkirby.com).

What OP is building (I think) and what others like Netlify CMS and Tina CMS do, are Frontend Applications (typically SPA) that output a set of content files, which can then be fed into a static site generator (like Next.js, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll), which will built a website from it. So it's a "smaller" concept than flat file CMS. Typically these "static CMS" only care about content and have nothing to do with templating, etc.

• Publii

  97 5,979 9.2 HTML

  The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

Publii [1] is still an excellent option in the Hugo-but-graphical space. It has a desktop app and allows hosting on GitHub Pages, AWS S3, Netlify and others.

[1] https://getpublii.com/

• sitepress

  11 247 7.4 Ruby

  Sitepress ruby gems

  

Agreed. I built https://sitepress.cc/ that uses git + files to manage content in Rails, but it needs an editor.

I’m not sure if the right thing to do is build a web editor or smooth out git workflows so that non-technical people can open content files with desktop software to make changes to the content.

Suggest a related project