CMS Solutions
Tags: cms
Published: 2023-02-25 13:40:25

> What is CMS Solution?

- CMS means Content Management System which is an application that is used to manage content, allowing, multiple contributors to create, edit, and publish.

- Content in CMS is typically stored in a database and displayed in a presentation layer based on a set of templates like a website.

> What is Headless CMS?

- A headless CMS Content management system is a back-end-only content management system that acts primarily as a content repository.

- A headless CMS makes content accessible without a built-in front-end or presentation layer.

> Tools: Contentful, Storyblok, Strapi, Sanity

Contentful

- Let you create, manage, and distributed content to any platform.
- You can create your own content model, so you can decide which content you want to manage.

- It provides RESTFUL API, so it helps to deliver content across multiple channels such as website mobile apps (IOS, Android, and Windows Phone).

- You can assign custom roles and permissions to team members add validations, depending upon the kind of content you have to insert and add media such as images, documents, sounds, or videos.

Storyblok

- Storyblok help your team to tell your story and manage content for every use-case: corporate website, e-commerce, helpdesk, mobile apps, and screen displays

Problem

- Managing digital content with a headless CMS can be a difficult task, without a visual preview editor is often lost and needed instruction even for simple changes.

Solution

- Storyblok has the user experience of page builders with a modern headless architecture behind it.

Strapi

- Strapi is an open-source headless CMS front-end developer love. it is more than a Node JS framework and more than Headless CMS.
- It saves API development time through a beautiful admin panel anyone can use.

Advantages

- Open Source.
- Self-hosted (Host your data safely on your own server).
- Customizable ( Each project require specific requirement. Easily customizable the admin panel as well as API)
- RESTFUL or GRAPHQL (Consume the API from any client (REACT, VUE, ANGULAR), mobile apps, or even IOT using REST or GRAPHQL.
- 100% JAVASCRIPT ( Extensible by design).
- Authentication and Permissions.

> Alternative

- WordPress (Open Source).
- Contentful
- Netlify CMS (Open Source content management system).
- Firebase
- Drupal (Open Source content management platform).

Sanity

- Sanity Studio is an open-source Headless real-time CMS that you can customize with JavaScript and React
- Efficient editing, instant UI for complex fields.
- Responsive, work on the small screen.
- Plug-in architecture and custom input component
- Style with our own branding
- Advanced block editor for Structured content.
- Use JavaScript to add field validation, organization document, and set initial values.

Differences
Strapi vs Contentful:

- Contentful is a content management system that provides a centralized hub for managing content and data
- Strapi is a headless CMS that provides a RESTFUL API for managing content and data

- Consider Contentful if you want a CMS that provides a centralized hub for managing content and data.
- Consider Strapi if you want a headless CMS that provides a RESTFUL API CMS for managing content and data.

Sanity vs Strapi:

- Sanity is a static generator that allows you to create a website from a set of templates and content
- Strapi provides open-source API management platforms that allow you to create, manage and monitor APIs
- Consider Sanity if you want to create a static website with a simple and easy-to-use interface.
- Consider Strapi if you want to create RESTAPI for your website.

Contentful vs Sanity:

- Consider Contentful if you want to create manage, and publish content to your website.
- Consider Sanity if you want to create manage and publish content on your website.

Sanity vs Storyblok:

- When assessing the two solutions both vendors make it easy equally to do business.
- When comparing the quality of ongoing product support, Storyblok is the preferred option
- For future updates and roadmaps, sanity is preferred over 

Storyblok

- Consider Sanity if you want to create a static website with a simple and easy-to-use interface.
- Consider Strapi if you want to create RESTAPI for your website.

Reference links:https://dev.to/pagepro_agency/what-is-strapi-and-how-to-build-your-first-api-56jk


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