June 14, 2019

Vetting more CMSs

Ghost

• Ghost is great for blogs, and does have an API, but it's really designed more for writing, not as much custom, structured, data.

Craft

• Pricing = Free for 1 user, no support
• If you want more accounts or accounts other than admin, $300 for multi-user / $60 a year for updates
• CraftQL Plugin available for $60
• Installed with Docker
• Backend is pretty nice, they have a type of content called structure that can have a hierarchy
• Installed the plugin Element API (opens new window) You have to write the APIs yourself though
• no built in rich text editor, you have to use a plugin like redactor (opens new window)

Contentful

• Fully hosted content management
• $40/month to start, free trial for development though
• Pretty amazing, easy to make content types, API is good
• You do have to requests lists separate from content, but that makes sense
• It's actually free if you only have 1 admin role, but maybe more than one login?
  • ... you get 2 spaces and you get 24 content types
  • but, this is the same as "MICRO"
• Nuxt tutorial (opens new window)
• Graph QL https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/references/graphql/

Keystone JS

• Keystone (opens new window)
• A lot like strapi, but more mature, doesn't make your APIs automatically though.

Prismic

• A little like contentful,
• free for one user
• JS library
• Pretty Cool!
• one weird feature, rich text editor uses separate array for html tags
• GraphQL - https://prismic.io/blog/graphql-api-alpha-release

Statamic

• Very interesting, but not for this project.
• Like wordpress, but no database, all content is rendered out to markdown or yaml
  • unclear how these get published w/o running get commands.
• $100 for a license Statamic (opens new window)

Netlify CMS

• uses netlify infrastructure to work.
• configure types in yml.
• stores markdown files
• really meant for github, since I believe it makes commits for you

Publii

• https://getpublii.com/
• Uses an app, you keep your files in Dropbox or something
• Super fast it says
  • AMP support
• No API or anything
• have to use a theme
• not clear if you can create custom post types

Kirbi

• like statamic, it's databaseless
• https://getkirby.com/

Storyblok

• interesting, could be good, has free tier
• however, it's main boast is a visual editor, or a preview, which I don't fee like we need.
• digging in, it seems like it's big thing is pages and previews
• has nuxt hookups
• interesting!

Probably going to go with Prismic

• more pricing tiers if we need them, you get an SLA for way less than Contentful
• Prismic Nuxt (opens new window)
• GraphQL (opens new window)

Working on TAP UI Kit

• manually assigned variables to my default-sizing mixin

$mobile-margin: 1.5625em;
$desktop-margin: 2em;

@mixin default-sizing($max) {
  margin-left: $mobile-margin;
  margin-right: $mobile-margin;
  max-width: $max;
  @include breakpoint(large) {
    margin-left: $desktop-margin;
    margin-right: $desktop-margin;
  }
  @include breakpoint ($max up) {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    padding-left: $desktop-margin;
    padding-right: $desktop-margin;
  }
}

• this thing is so nice, because it transitions from margins on mobile to padding right when you hit your max-width.
• keeps your margin's the same for the whole project, but, lets you vary your max-widths.