Free Open-Source Headless CMS for Your Static Site Generator
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
When there is a very low-cost solution needed for managing content on the website and the users are not really tech savvy, but they have a need for a WYSIWYG editor with some basic features. Many other solutions might exist for this problem but you might also need a customized schema for the content being stored and more control over infrastructure and access to data, and also a free and open-source implementation.
Pros
- Storing content data in customized schema without a database
- Full control over your content and infrastructure where it is deployed and stored
- Very low-cost way for building your own CMS and CDN
Cons
- Linking between different schema types, i.e. having some relations between content
- Better ways to define content schema, like how TinaCMS would handle using a JSON
Return on Investment
- Helped us inject dynamic content into existing site very quickly
- Wasted a lot of time to implement when something complex, such as querying content, was needed
Alternatives Considered
Jekyll, Strapi, Contentful, Ghost, Forestry CMS and WordPress
Other Software Used
React, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Docker