Just wanted to drop my experience with BeaconCMS in here for anyone that needs it.

It works well, but (as of the time of writing this) the installation can be a little rough. Some dependency conflicts may pop up. For me, there was a need to add some of beacon_live_admin’s configuration files to the application where I have beacon_live_admin installed.

I ran into some issues with the install command (mix beacon.install --site my_site). Nothing major, but the script wasn’t finding the correct files to make a few of the code injections. You might want to use the manual instructions, instead.

The installation instructions don’t mention it, but you’ll need to create a database or use your existing one in the Beacon repo configurations. Also Beacon has migrations, so they’ll need to be ran.

TLDR: It works well. Installation was a little rocky, but I’m looking forward to working with Beacon CMS.

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.

Understood. Yea I was hoping to give it a try, because I had a similar experience with the Beacon CMS demo a month or two ago.

I’m really glad to see Beacon’s making a strong open source effort, though. Really looks promising. I’m going to give BeaconCMS a try in a new project. I’ll try to add my experience to this thread.