Headless CMS

Think of it like an asset library with an admin UI for nontechnical people that you can pull assets to on any frontend

Often also has a visual UI builder and basically becomes a selfhosted Wordpress/Wix

Sanity

  • Free tier hosted, but only up to 5GB assets then $.5 GB/month

  • You create the schema in the code by editng schemas folder

    • https://www.sanity.io/docs/schemas-and-forms

  • Features

    • Automatic dashboard, login, add field with upload, asset optimization, and field groups

    • Preview object for dashboard

    • History of edits

    • For V2

    • Custom Validation

    • Can have multiple users and roles/permissioning for different users interacting with content

    • Supports nested schemas => Can have dynamic module content of varying length

    • Plugins: https://www.sanity.io/plugins

    • Workflows for approval

    • Custom code editing allowing custom pages/theming etc

    • Supports all the following schema types rich text editors and nested schema

Other Options

Strapi

  • Opensource/free, but must pay for hosting but could do on free render tier

  • Storage can be AWS S3 at $.023 GB/month

Prism

  • More a website builder than headless CMS

Contentful

  • Super expensive

  • Free tier only has max asset size of 50 MB unclear how many, then first paid tier is $300

Storyblock

  • 250GB Traffic/month included (60/month for 250GB of additional traffic)

  • More website builder than headless CMS

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