What is the ‘best’ headless CMS?
Hello all,
I want to learn how to combine Astro with a headless CMS however I’m not quite sure which one I should focus on with my learning.
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations and comments to help give me some guidance when choosing.
I’ve seen options like Sanity, Contentful & Wix Studio’s CMS, just to name a few. But I honestly can’t decipher the specific details as to why one would choose x over y
For context, my goal is to work with small businesses, so no large scale work.
Appreciate all the help
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Personally, I'd use whatever is easiest to get running and widely adopted by Astro
I'm sure you've seen it already but I think Astro has that page with compatible cms's
having used wix as a service i wouldnt recommend anything by them
even if their headless cms can be ran locally and its good or something
I haven’t seen that, but I’ll take a look now. Thanks mate
Appreciate the input, thank you 🫡
I am a big fan of Storyblok. It should be fairly easy to integrate and the visual editor is pretty legit. https://www.storyblok.com/tc/astro
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The Astro discord has a support thread about picking a cms which is over 1200 comments long, so when I say "it depends"...
There are a couple of key tradeoffs to consider, depending on what you value. If you need the end user to have a visual editor and be able to publish changes with the click of a button, that usually means adding more scripts on the webpage (which undercuts the benefit of a static site generator) or requires a hosting solution that can run a build process, which generally adds complexity and cost.
The kinds of content you want users to be able to upload also have an impact; if it's just creating blog posts, there's very simple CMS options, whereas modifying all site pages, uploading images and video, or even custom content collections, will require a more specialized tool.
I'd recommend looking at https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/ and familiarising yourself with the different categories they offer there: git-based, local, API-based etc
Jamstack.org
Headless CMS - Top Content Management Systems | Jamstack
Check out this showcase of some of the best, open source headless CMSes. This is community-drive so be sure to submit your favorite CMS today!
Main questions to consider are: what's your budget? How are you planning to publish/host the site? How tech-savvy are your users?