Netlify CMS to Become Decap CMS
netlify.comI’ve always liked the idea of Netlify CMS, to have some (statically deployed) JS that talks directly to GitHub/GitLab and provides a clean interface to edit the content that’s stored in Markdown files. There are many sites that don’t need much CMS functionality but for which you’d still like to provide a way for someone non-technical to update some content. Being able to do that while keeping all code and data in a single repository is pretty neat.
However, I’ve been hesitant to use Netlify CMS in any project because it appeared to be mostly abandoned for a long time now [1]. It remains to be seen whether “PM” will be able to revive the project as they are planning to [2]. An earlier fork [3] seems more promising to me at the moment.
[1]: https://answers.netlify.com/t/is-this-project-dead/70988 [2]: https://techhub.p-m.si/insights/introducing-decap-cms/ [3]: https://www.staticcms.org/
I'm glad it's not completely dead too! It'll be interesting to see if Static JS CMS continues to gain steam, or if folks continue with Decap.
I've always found the rush to the headless CMS to be a bit baffling, and strongly developer focused while forgetting most users. How are folks actually writing the content, are they just writing markdown by hand? I understand decoupling management of content from presentation, but the lack of options for editing was always confusing to me. Glad that now we'll have at least two good fully open source options.