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

An image

• 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