Payload
| Project Name | Stars | Downloads | Repos Using This | Packages Using This | Most Recent Commit | Total Releases | Latest Release | Open Issues | License | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decap Cms | 16,971 |  | 1,295 | 21 | 6 days ago | 24 | February 10, 2021 | 520 | mit | JavaScript |
| A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators | ||||||||||
| Payload | 12,280 | | 5 | 83 | a day ago | 376 | July 31, 2023 | 89 | mit | TypeScript |
| The best way to build a modern backend + admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS. | ||||||||||
| Tinacms | 9,345 |  | 5 | 93 | 3 days ago | 197 | August 01, 2023 | 58 | apache-2.0 | TypeScript |
| A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Git and Visual Editing | ||||||||||
| Keystone | 8,331 |  | 48 | 3 days ago | 18 | November 16, 2022 | 128 | mit | TypeScript | |
| The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React | ||||||||||
| Webiny Js | 6,836 |  | 135 | 16 hours ago | 437 | July 25, 2023 | 286 | other | TypeScript | |
| Open-source serverless enterprise CMS. Includes a headless CMS, page builder, form builder, and file manager. Easy to customize and expand. Deploys to AWS. | ||||||||||
| Awesome Javascript Cn | 6,731 | 3 years ago | 1 | |||||||
| JavaScript 资源大全中文版，内容包括：包管理器、加载器、测试框架、运行器、QA、MVC框架和库、模板引擎等。由「开源前哨」和「前端大全」微信公号团队维护更新。 | ||||||||||
| Builder | 5,660 |  | 2 | 64 | 4 days ago | 1,138 | August 08, 2023 | 122 | mit | TypeScript |
| Drag and drop headless CMS for React, Vue, Svelte, Qwik, and more | ||||||||||
| Rowy | 5,110 |  | 2 | 11 days ago | 6 | August 23, 2020 | 48 | other | TypeScript | |
| Low-code backend platform. Manage database on spreadsheet-like UI and build cloud functions workflows in JS/TS, all in your browser. | ||||||||||
| Sanity | 4,590 |  | 8 | 177 | 16 hours ago | 647 | August 10, 2023 | 299 | mit | TypeScript |
| Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content | ||||||||||
| Awesome Opensource Apps | 2,859 | 2 months ago | 36 | |||||||
| :house::information_source: Curated list of awesome open source crafted web & mobile applications - Learn, Fork, Contribute & Most Importantly Enjoy! | ||||||||||
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Benefits over a regular CMS
- Don’t hit some third-party SaaS API, hit your own API
- Use your own database and own your data
- It's just Express - do what you want outside of Payload
- No need to learn how Payload works - if you know JS, you know Payload
- No vendor lock-in
- Avoid microservices hell - get everything (even auth) in one place
- Never touch ancient WP code again
- Build faster, never hit a roadblock
- Both admin and backend are 100% extensible
☁️ Deploy instantly with Payload Cloud.
Create a cloud account, connect your GitHub, and deploy in minutes.
🚀 Get started by self-hosting completely free, forever.
Before beginning to work with Payload, make sure you have all of the required software.
npx create-payload-app
Alternatively, it only takes about five minutes to create an app from scratch.
🖱️ One-click templates
🛒 E-Commerce
Eliminate the need to combine Shopify and a CMS, and instead do it all with Payload + Stripe. Best of all, you can extend it as much as you need.
All Official Templates · Community Templates
If you maintain your own template, consider adding the payload-template topic to your GitHub repository for others to find.
✨ Features
- Completely free and open-source
- GraphQL, REST, and Local APIs
- Easily customizable ReactJS Admin
- Fully self-hosted
- Extensible Authentication
- Local file storage & upload
- Version History and Drafts
- Field-based Localization
- Block-based Layout Builder
- Extensible SlateJS rich text editor
- Array field type
- Field conditional logic
- Extremely granular Access Control
- Document and field-level hooks for every action Payload provides
- Built with Typescript & very Typescript-friendly
- Intensely fast API
- Highly secure thanks to HTTP-only cookies, CSRF protection, and more
🗒️ Documentation
Check out the Payload website to find in-depth documentation for everything that Payload offers.
🙋 Contributing
If you want to add contributions to this repository, please follow the instructions in contributing.md.
📚 Examples
The examples directory is a great resource for learning how to setup Payload in a variety of different ways.
🔌 Plugins
Payload is highly extensible and allows you to install or distribute plugins that add or remove functionality. There are both officially-supported and community-supported plugins available. If you maintain your own plugin, consider adding the payload-plugin topic to your GitHub repository for others to find.
🚨 Need help?
There are lots of good conversations and resources in our Github Discussions board and our Discord Server. If you're struggling with something, chances are, someone's already solved what you're up against. 👇
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