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📣 kkielhofner

Modern SSG/CMS for teams with different skill sets?


My startup currently has a user facing website with terribly outdated content and design:

https://tovera.com

Seeing as we're essentially pre-launch it's been last priority since the initial push. It's hosted with Cloudflare Pages and built with Next.js.

As we grow and build out marketing, content, and design teams I'm looking for Jamstack compatible tooling for a more user friendly (ideally web driven) WYSIWYG SSG/CMS combo.

Ideally we'd be able to achieve the "Holy Grail" of a web development team (currently big on React) being able to implement anything that needs to be done while also maintaining ease of use for updates and new content from the various non-technically skilled teams.

In my initial research I've found it incredibly easy to get lost in a sea of SSG, CMS, headless CMS, etc options.

Can anyone suggest a unicorn/silver bullet approach that meets these needs?

Thanks!


  👤 xyzzyrz Accepted Answer ✓
Plasmic (https://www.plasmic.app) is a WYSIWYG visual page builder + headless CMS that's built for Next.js and other modern SSG frameworks.

It lets non-dev teams freely create and edit content, optionally using your React components, and publish this back into your site as optimized static pages.

Is this at all what you're looking for? (Disclaimer: I work on this)


👤 denolfe
It sounds like Payload CMS (https://payloadcms.com) would be a great fit for what you're after - especially if you're all in on TypeScript and React.

The flexible content models and rich text editor makes me think you'll find it interesting.

Disclaimer: I'm a contributor