Top 10 Headless CMS's You Should Check Out (and what they are!)

[@ProgramWithErik]

Hey! Thanks for checking out the video. I know a couple of you commented that you wanted a bit more information! I did a series on different CMS and how they work. Here is a playlist for Dato CMS, Sanity and another video on how I thought it all worked together. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWygpuKga2HZrc

[@robertbuijs2708]

All you do is look at the website, as we all do. Which still leaves me clueless. Could you create a new video where you try out, say 3 of them, and share your experience after? Or maybe you did already?

[@ProgramWithErik]

Yes! So I went back and did 4 different videos, on 3 different CMS for this exact reason. GatsbyJS is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHzQmqmhasedpZo Sanity is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6bOn6mNgrJjj6M and DatoCMS is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWygpuKga2HZrc

[@ProgramWithErik]

If your interested in a different CMS let me know below! I might do another one soon.

[@fredericbeck5675]

@@ProgramWithErik what about grav and kirby?

[@MarkJWilliams0]

Thanks for making this. I'm still not convinced about the CMS-as-a-service model. I find the pricing models really tricky. It's easy to get started with a free account, but after you get started and spend $$$$ on front end development you'll want to bump up to a paid plan. Pretty quickly you're tied into their CMS and will hit the $879 / month limit. The middle paid plan really doesn't offer much above the free plan. That's their business model I guess but it's a bit underhanded IMO.

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

never used one yet.. but i immediately noticed how new trend of cashgrabs is emerging, third party forms , third party cms with ridicilous limits and paywalls... depends where u from, shit like that would never fly making something to a estonian client... where they are locked into some third party cms... talk about prices... they are RIDICILOUS... companies want self-hosted cms Pretty sure only one i would actually use is Strapi one wich is missing here from the video is Forestry

[@SirJagerYT]

I have used Starpi and It is best cms i have tried . The only thing i didn't like was it can not create new collections(schema/tables) in production, you have to locally add new schema and then build and deploy. To overcome this issue i created my own backend server from scratch written in golang supporting mysql,pg,sqlite. Added auth, and dynamic buildings tables, modifying and perform crud in those tables. And It exposes api to to use that table and perform crud to authenticated user

[@ChristopherPhillips]

If you cant be bothered to click through the websites pricing pages watch this. If you want an actual understanding of headless CMS's dont watch this.

[@safwansalehjee7961]

What do I watch then?

[@otterpopsyeah]

@@safwansalehjee7961 go read about ‘em

[@Andredy89]

it's pretty funny to imagine how i will say to client to pay $1200 per year for an admin panel :D May be it's a good price for the USA but...

[@poulain1721]

Thank you for all that work !!

[@MitchLeung]

I would like to see vue ssr with any headless cams that can support multilingual. Strapi multilingual isn’t quite working

[@xenonxm]

You mentioned you would be covering two types -- a) Headless CMSs as service b) Opensource which we could host on our own server. But you never bothered for the Opensource ones.

[@ProgramWithErik]

Maybe next time

[@NataliaSeptember.]

I liked your video! It helped me!

[@ruthvikvijayakumar7809]

Ghost CMS..??

[@osherezra131]

Great one like always :) waiting for the tutorial..... cheers, keep it up

[@ProgramWithErik]

You are welcome!

[@kumbackquatsta]

video on strapi please and headless wordpress

[@GEEKERIEE]

is there a website or a software where they have tools to calculate the total revenue of the 300 youtube channels under my CMS youtube umbrella

[@cnikolov]

something with vue nuxt would be amazing erik

[@simbarashemaunga5575]

Why not just use StrapiJS

[@prottoychandra2223]

Very nice, insightful list, Erik. Have you checked out Core dna? I was surprised to see they are not listed, they have a really good headless CMS, they even worked with Nintendo. Are there reasons why? Just curious. Keep up the good stuff bro.

[@keekomontojo4184]

Wordpress vs Netlify CMS?

[@mkroven]

Wagtail is my choice.

[@kwp4047]

You didn't really put any specifics or opinions or experience into this video. Would have been nice to hear any pros or cons or how they worked when you tested them.

[@ProgramWithErik]

Check out the stickied comment. I've done a bunch of videos on specifics of these headless CMS. In fact just a couple weeks ago I did prismic, and created an app. This was just an onverview

[@tautvydasbujauskas8104]

Ir would be great to ger a demo of wp as backednand abd vue for frotnend :)

[@heyyy4987]

2+

[@xSayllusx]

I second this

[@ProgramWithErik]

Awesome! That sounds like a good idea!

[@darrencook5073]

+3

[@charlesmontojo3960]

Please do this :)

[@sauravchoudhury6314]

How would you compare Webflow CMS with the others like Prismic??

[@doniprihantoro1607]

I got nothing from the video actually. We want to know what's the difference between one and the other, which one is easiest to implement, which one is the most powerful, which one has better features than the other, etc. All you do is compare the prices

[@mitotv6376]

Awesome.. 😎

[@AbhishekKumar-mq1tt]

Thank u for this awesome video

[@christherlenander539]

What do you think about Strapi?

[@kumbackquatsta]

what's the best headless cms approach for a web app or progressive web app?

[@ProgramWithErik]

I'm not sure.

[@mza1409]

Headless WP tutorial sounds interesting.

[@ProgramWithErik]

Working on it now, hopefully later this week.

[@jhandy5510]

Hey man for your giveaway it doesn't display a winner for the giveaway. Did the winner go away or did it not select or something. Just thought I'd let you know.

[@ProgramWithErik]

Thanks, which video was that?

[@mahsamiiiir]

Hi Erik i have a question the question is : Can i use to Wordpress instead of headless CMS for my Vue js application as back-end? or it's a stupid idea?

[@arunabraham9382]

Wordpress could be used headless

[@astursistemas]

Hello and thanks for the video. I am looking a headless CMS, to run on a shared hosting account, flat files, that is simple to use by clerical staff of a small company with no technical knowledge, that allows to have a web editor like CKEditor to edit the content areas, not Markdown. That allows to have dropdown menu, horizontal or vertical, image slider in the main banner, and with pagination for articles, that is Open Source. Can you recommend a couple of options? Thanks and regards

[@astursistemas]

​@@josephkinyumu6863 Hello, I have not found an ideal headless CMS, I found Silverstripe, is not headless, the customer interface is very simple and friendly to use, the templates are easy to manage for the technical staff, but unfortunately, the installation is big more than 300 MB and it requires a database and a very updated server, and Composer. I guess there is not a perfect solution as far as I know.

[@astursistemas]

@@josephkinyumu6863 Thanks for sharing Joseph, I have tested more than 100 CMSs but I have not hear about Dato CMS, I am going to test it, regards.

[@evelynspringsteen1010]

Which frontend deployment tools do you guys use or recommend?

[@lukabiskupic4910]

Could I use React to build niche site or should I use CMS?

[@Jebble347]

None of these CMS' would give you a functional website. A Headless CMS literally only manages your content. You can build your website with React and then show the CMS' data through an API or GraphQL

[@sma92878]

Strapi is absolute garbage, my developer has been working on my site for the past several months and now they are going to release v5 with MANY breaking changes. I'd love to see a video on the most stable CMSs. That's what we care about from the business side.

[@valamaas]

I have a MS SQL Server database. I just want a local tool that will allow me to edit data easily. Want it to read the schema and keys to present an interface to edit. Any ideas? open-source/free

[@manaschimpidi7375]

DIrectus is a good tool

[@valamaas]

@@manaschimpidi7375 looks promising. Will try it out. Thank you for replying

[@arunabraham9382]

Why pay for these sites, atleast word[ress has headless

[@abdmaster]

Do a tutorial with one of them...

[@ProgramWithErik]

Yup! that's what I think I'll do

[@borispocatko9361]

How about kentico cloud ? :)

[@mexantos]

how about directus?

[@ProgramWithErik]

I'll look that up!

[@blokche_dev]

Hi Erik. Do you know if some of these CMS are GraphQL based?

[@ProgramWithErik]

I know of one called GraphCMS, I don't think these others are... I'm not 100% entirely sure

[@markymarkali]

Contentful has GraphQL, but seems almost proprietary

[@brendangoosen]

Wordpress too WP Graph QL

[@SaaSMakers]

Prismic FTW

[@ProgramWithErik]

That is a good one

[@xSayllusx]

Headless WordPress and vue in frontend

[@ProgramWithErik]

Awesome! I'll look into it!

[@ja909]

React w/Strapi

[@kevincressy7256]

+1

[@Jebble347]

The "and what they are!" bit in the title definitely shouldn't be there. A lot of talking without any actual information. You read out websites without having almost any experience with these.

[@ProgramWithErik]

Check out my playlist on different CMS out there. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWygpuKga2HZrc

[@elieobeid77]

the dude hasn't used any of them and still releases a video telling people which one is best ... dislike

[@ProgramWithErik]

Elie I have used them. You're 100% wrong. I even made a playlist going over some of them. Please do some more research before you make a comment like this! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZWygpuKga2HZrc