Select a content management system

[viktor-yakubiv]

In the Next.js docs about preview mode is a list of headless CMSs we could possibly use for our website. The goal is to go through the list and select the one that suits us the most.

Selection criteria

• Price: we target free ones, but it's important to know how much and for what exactly we pay (per user, per website)
  • Open-source supporter: good to know if there are payed features free for open science/open source
• Preview mode: the CMS must have a way to operate with preview pages; this is a feature allowing open different page on the website that picks the edits up automatically
• Internationalisation: it would be nice to have many languages supported for free; where it's not possible, how much it costs
• User roles: 3 roles is enough for us, but if we want to let external people edit the website (like let Ambassadors edit their info themselves) we need more; if the monetising model is based on users themselves, it's not good but 5-6 should fit our team
• Resource management: how does the CMS process pictures, where it stores them, what kinds of pictures are supported (SVG is important to have); it's not a problem if no info is available here
• Structure of data: is it possible to setup more than one website in a single CMS instance/account
• Self-hosted: it's not that important, easier to maintain if hosted externally, safer if hosted ourselves
• Subjective impression: does it look easy to setup the content, navigate through the content
• API: only link to the docs needed, @viktor-yakubiv will go through it manually
• Rich text outputting format: how does rich text looks in the API output; could be also tested by a developer

The list of CMSs

• DatoCMS
• TakeShape
• Sanity
• Prismic
• Contentful
• Strapi
• Agility CMS
• Cosmic
• ButterCMS
• Storyblok
• GraphCMS
• Kontent

[hanana1]

The file with results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_UwTkwJR2JNM848nVodfHkGdyIzK6njq08uAWX6i_rA/edit#gid=0

[viktor-yakubiv]

This is done in #371