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1. decap-cms

   1 92 18,325 7.9 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.

2. SurveyJS

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3. outstatic

   2 17 2,910 9.7 TypeScript

   Outstatic - A static CMS for Next.js

   

4. wasmer.io

   3 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

5. junco-cms

   4 1 10 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

6. cms

   5 40 4,370 9.8 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/

7. temporal_tables

   6 7 685 6.2 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

8. periods

   7 5 291 4.6 PLpgSQL

   PERIODs and SYSTEM VERSIONING for PostgreSQL

   

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10. pg_bitemporal

    8 8 147 0.0 PLpgSQL

    Bitemporal tables in Postgres

    

11. temporal_tables

    9 16 961 1.0 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 :)

12. Kirby

    10 62 1,391 9.8 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.

13. Publii

    11 106 6,704 9.3 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/

14. sitepress

    12 12 356 7.3 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.

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