jukvalim
Hi all!
I have a potential case that involves a web site with a lot of admin-generated content, as well as custom features. So it needs CMS functionality, and I could use some advice on my options. The way I see it, currently my options are:
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Use a CMS made for Phoenix. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there is a well-featured one that is maintained. Thesis and Contento both look like they’ve been abandoned.
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Use a headless CMS such as Ghost or Strapi and integrate with it. Downside: it makes the app more of a distributed system with related headaches and extra work.
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Roll my own. Not loving this idea at the moment, even though I could maybe use something like Kaffy to build on.
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Write the app in Python and use Django and Wagtail. Downside: loss of Elixir goodies, the concurrency model in particular.
If you have suggestions or ideas, I’d be happy to hear them.
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vincer
We’re working on an Elixir-based CMS with Postgres + Elasticsearch + Absinthe GraphQL + Vue over here. It’s not quite ready for prime-time, but getting there. Currently fighting with Absinthe to get dynamic runtime GraphQL schemas (for user-defined data models).
In the meantime, we’ve found Prismic to be pretty cost-effective for clients we work with as it has a generous free tier and a pretty good API. There’s also Storyblok, Takeshape and Sanity that have decent free tiers. I doubt it’s worth the trouble to maintain a separate CMS in Node, but your mileage may vary.
zorn
I’ve considered using Airtable and it’s API support for something similar but never really tried it so can’t speak to specifics. Good luck.
TwistingTwists
Has anyone tried and figured something out ?
Would love to hear your opinions.
fceruti
This weekend I’m going to test PardallMarkdown which seems great for what I need. I’ll let you know my opinion after trying it out.
elmercante
Hey I know this thread has gone a little stale, but how did Pardall work for you?
Pal
The GitHub was recently archived… so I’d say its not an option now.
elmercante
A GitHub repo being archived only means the owner has declared it read-only. It doesn’t mean the code is no longer available or that it doesn’t work correctly.
fceruti
I ended up not using it. As I recall, I couldn’t figure it out quickly, which led me to believe it was probably too complicated.
I wasn’t very thorough, though. Just my gut feeling.
Pal
thanks… I always assumed it to mean a project development has stopped.
ryanwinchester
DockYard is working on Beacon CMS
https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon