What are some modern CMSes?

Question

Most of the time i see PHP CMSes in Projects. Those are fine, i guess, but you can see those ~15 years of baggage.Woorking with mostly go & JS i am interested in CMSes that fit better into a more modern world.Except Ghost, can you guys recommend any?

open-source-ux · Accepted Answer

Some modern CMSs listed below. Some are paid, some are open source. Mostly PHP but without the baggage of older CMSs like Drupal:
- CraftCMS (PHP): https://craftcms.com/
- Kirby (PHP): https://getkirby.com/
- Statamic (PHP): https://statamic.com/
- October (PHP, Open Source): https://octobercms.com/
- Bolt (PHP, Open Source): https://boltcms.io/
- Wagtail (Python, Open Source): https://wagtail.io/

asidiali · Answer

Strapi has been OK. Love the idea but execution is not up to par IMO. I think it will continue to get better, but they just switched to a paid model, so meh (sorry Strapi). Contentful looks good albeit expensive.
I personally love the simplicity and stability of Jekyll + git + good organization.
You can’t go wrong with a Wordpress API sitting behind a whitelisted VPN with a single GraphQL resource exposed to plug into your clients. They’ve done a good job of modernizing their platform IMO, and you get the added benefit of almost every editor/writer/marketer already being familiar with the WP dashboard UX.

softwaredoug · Answer

Who is your audience?Having migrated from WP to Jekyll only to go back in the last ten years, I learned Wordpress (and Drupal, etc ) exist for a reason. They&rsquo;re well understood by a large community of non technical marketing, PR, and other content professionals. So in the end if it&rsquo;s more than for your own blog or a handful of devs, &ldquo;modern tech stack&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t the main consideration.Not to dissuade you&mdash;I&rsquo;m curious myself if there are more modern WP competitors out there to help the non technical audience.