Interesting summary! On the headless CMS front, very good points... what about Directus? Thanks for your video! (ah, sorry, taking that back, after just seeing how they have stripped out the self-hosting instructions from their GitHub Readme file, and everywhere else (docs, etc.) shamelessly pushing you towards the paid cloud version that prohibits any access to the underlying database itself. The only mention of self-hosting left is in the docs, where a stripped down dockerfile is briefly mentioned as the only self-hosting alternative). Yep, Payload looks like a great alternative, you are right!
I haven't had much time to play with it but it seems like a great static site generator for Deno. In my eyes it's basically 11ty for the Deno world. I think Fresh is innovating a bit more with their approach to go SSR only and avoid a build step altogether though.
Absolutely not interested in Sanity no matter how good it is. Talk about vendor lock in, no thanks. Besides, the page editors look crappy. Not a patch on WordPress Elementor or Brizy page builders.
It sounds like you might be more interested in PayloadCMS then if you're worried about vendor lock in. WordPress is on the steady decline and for good reason. It wasn't built for the content management needs of today's world. But as I always say if it works for you and your team then there's no sense in changing.
@@jaydanurwin Yes, my income depends on WordPress, but it's absolute overkill for one-page flyers and landing pages, so I am looking for something to augment WP. So far, Astro and Deno Fresh, with perhaps PocketBase as the backend storage, are the best contenders. Thanks for pointing out PayloadCMS, but it's page layout and editing is as primitive as any other non-WP CMS system I've seen, so far. We may have reached peak-WordPress, but it'll be another 5+ years before ALL the functionality that WP currently offers (for free) comes to the node/js world... especially drag n drop WYSIWYG page builders.
Interesting summary! On the headless CMS front, very good points... what about Directus? Thanks for your video! (ah, sorry, taking that back, after just seeing how they have stripped out the self-hosting instructions from their GitHub Readme file, and everywhere else (docs, etc.) shamelessly pushing you towards the paid cloud version that prohibits any access to the underlying database itself. The only mention of self-hosting left is in the docs, where a stripped down dockerfile is briefly mentioned as the only self-hosting alternative). Yep, Payload looks like a great alternative, you are right!
Some thoughts about lume (eleventy-like for deno)?
I haven't had much time to play with it but it seems like a great static site generator for Deno. In my eyes it's basically 11ty for the Deno world. I think Fresh is innovating a bit more with their approach to go SSR only and avoid a build step altogether though.
Absolutely not interested in Sanity no matter how good it is. Talk about vendor lock in, no thanks. Besides, the page editors look crappy. Not a patch on WordPress Elementor or Brizy page builders.
It sounds like you might be more interested in PayloadCMS then if you're worried about vendor lock in. WordPress is on the steady decline and for good reason. It wasn't built for the content management needs of today's world. But as I always say if it works for you and your team then there's no sense in changing.
@@jaydanurwin Yes, my income depends on WordPress, but it's absolute overkill for one-page flyers and landing pages, so I am looking for something to augment WP. So far, Astro and Deno Fresh, with perhaps PocketBase as the backend storage, are the best contenders. Thanks for pointing out PayloadCMS, but it's page layout and editing is as primitive as any other non-WP CMS system I've seen, so far. We may have reached peak-WordPress, but it'll be another 5+ years before ALL the functionality that WP currently offers (for free) comes to the node/js world... especially drag n drop WYSIWYG page builders.