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Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for webapps?
6 points by bocytron on April 4, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I am looking for an open source CMS that integrates well with a frontend-only app (like a React App) and so far I have found:

- Good old full-stack CMSs such as Drupal or Wordpress that can expose a REST API, but seem a bit old for 2018

- Brand new Headless CMSs such as Strapi (nodejs) or Cockpit (PHP) but they don't look very mature (but I guess that's normal as "headless API" is quite a new concept)

Have you tried CMS integration with a React Apps yourself, and what approach did you take? Would you have some feedback to share about this stack?



Maybe a stack like Gatsby+Contentful+Netlify+Algolia is something you might like. The following guide describes you the full stack: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-12-06-gatsby-plus-content...


You may want to take a look at https://getmesh.io/ - A fully open source headless CMS. It has a GraphQL and REST API so integration with React should be fairly straight forward.


Netlify CMS with a static website? The CMS is React-based so you can customise it with your own components too.


Umbraco have released a pretty cool REST framework for this approach, and I've built a few React apps off of it.

I remember seeing a demo of it where it was being used to build webapps in Node and Ruby, alongside React, which for a .NET CMS is pretty cool.




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