What users are saying about
Contentful vs React
27 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 8.1 out of 100
Based on 27 reviews and ratings
84 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 8.7 out of 100
Based on 84 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Security

9.0
Contentful
90%
React
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 1/1 features
Contentful ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions

9.0
90%
5 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure

7.7
Contentful
77%
React
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 2/2 features
Contentful ranks higher in 2/2 features
API

7.0
70%
5 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language

8.5
85%
3 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Web Content Creation

7.2
Contentful
72%
React
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 8/8 features
Contentful ranks higher in 8/8 features
WYSIWYG editor

7.3
73%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness

9.0
90%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Admin section

8.0
80%
6 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Page templates

7.6
76%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Library of website themes

7.5
75%
2 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design

7.2
72%
2 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Publishing workflow

4.0
40%
6 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Form generator

7.0
70%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Web Content Management

6.9
Contentful
69%
React
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Contentful ranks higher in 5/5 features
Contentful ranks higher in 5/5 features
Content taxonomy

6.0
60%
5 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
SEO support

8.1
81%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Bulk management

7.5
75%
2 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions

4.1
41%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Community / comment management

9.0
90%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- React is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

8.0
Contentful
80%
7 Ratings
8.3
React
83%
12 Ratings
Usability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
React
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
React
100%
6 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
Web Marketing Manager
Lively, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees
React
React is great for people who are trying to build complex single page web applications. It is intuitive for developers, encourages modularity through components, and provides a web app this will scale. React may not be suited as well for simple websites or static content. However, this is changing with frameworks like Gatsby which allow you to build static HTML websites using React.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesPros
Contentful
- Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
- High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
- Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
Digital Strategist
Sherpa Design Co.Design, 1-10 employees
React
- React is designed around the notion of generated html as opposed to templated html. This provides more flexibility in building elements on a page, and allows developers to create html that is programmatically configured based on runtime considerations.
- React uses JSX, which is HTML templating integrated into javascript code. This simplifies the generation of complex structures, especially those that vary based on runtime and interactive data.
- React is more efficient because it generates a virtual DOM rather than directly building in in the actual DOM. By building 'offline' in this manner, the DOM generation is faster. After building, it can be installed in one operation.
- React only builds those portions of the display that have changed, making display updates more efficient.
Senior Software Engineer
Survey MonkeyInternet, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Contentful
- The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
- The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
- It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Lead Developer
SaaSquatchMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
React
- React could get very frustrating unless you start thinking in React. React enforces a top down hierarchy of data flow and offers no way for the data to communicate backwards. This is a big shift in mindset coming from Angular 1.x. This constraint is really a big factor that determines how to organize your code and how you might want to write your own Components.
- Because of the self imposed top down hierarchy, you end up having a heavy parents with dumb children. Because parents would need to the bulk of the work, they usually manage the state, while passing callbacks to the child components. If not properly designed, this could lead to the callback hell, where you could have callbacks passing through like multiple children.
- As with any library, you will have to iterate through multiple designs to come up with a ways to avoid "heavy parent components" in React. One obvious solution is using some open source tools like Redux, but we opted for a variation of it to suit our needs.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Contentful
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0
Contentful Editions & Modules
Edition
Community | Free |
---|---|
Team | 489/month |
Enterprise | Custom |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—React
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—React Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
React
React 9.0
Based on 2 answers
React is just a bit of a different animal. I was avoiding it for the longest time. I thought for sure I would land on Vue or something else with a more approachable and familiar appearance. But after taking an online course in React, I started realize what people were raving about (and complaining about) and decided to implement it at our office for one of our products.
Developer
By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
React
React 10.0
Based on 6 answers
Since it's open-source and very popular, the community support for React and related tools and libraries is excellent. There are a lot of people using the same tools, and so issues tend to get fixed quickly and "recipes" are easy to come by. And since it's backed by Facebook, they have a dedicated engineering team working on the progression of React.

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Contentful
Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
SEO Specialist
BambooHRComputer Software, 201-500 employees
React
I have also used Angular before coming to React. Web apps created with React are much faster than Angular because React is based on virtual DOM which reloads only those components of the web page that change and everything else remains the same. Angular's learning curve is also slightly steeper than React.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Contentful
- Positive: faster changes and new associates can easily navigate without prior training/knowledge of CMS to make content updates
- Negative: Our website manager/provider can keep certain abilities (like changing specific images) so they can charge a fee for making the change
Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC
FirstService Residential New YorkReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
React
- React allows a modular design, which is fabulous for A/B testing (showing a different module to each user). Some of these experiments had an improvement as big as to pay for the whole team that coded it. So far we know the ROI has been positive, but I can't provide a number.
FrontEnd Web Developer
loveholidaysRecreational Facilities and Services, 201-500 employees