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score 14 · Answer 1

Payload CMS

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Code-first

All schemas are configurable in code and can be checked into version control. See More

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Localization support

Support for multi-language content is built in and highly configurable. See More

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Saves dev time

Backend and admin UI saves a ton of dev of time, and is super polished out of the box. See More

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score 11 · Answer 2

Contentflow

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Multistream

You can live stream across multiple platforms. You can distribute your stream(s) simultaneously to several Facebook accounts, Youtube Live, Twitch, and other social media platforms See More

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It's expensive

1000 dollars per month. See More

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Subtitles

Subtitles can be created automatically and in an impressive quality. See More

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Graphic

Unfortunately the graphics cannot be changed during the stream. See More

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Video file

The video is available immediately after the livestream for download in different resolutions. See More

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Own player

A video player, which can be integrated into any website, is included. On request also with a chat. See More

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Cutting

It is possible to cut content from the running stream and export or publish it. See More

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Teamwork

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Graphics

Graphics, such as a logo, can be displayed See More

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score 67 · Answer 3

Markdown

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Lacks a coherent standard

Lacks a coherent standard, just many semi-compatible dialects (MultiMarkdown, etc). This inconsistency can cause problems if the person writing the Markdown is using a different dialect from the one that will be used to render it. See More

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Human-readable

Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form. See More

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Bad support for table

It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article. See More

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Widely used

Markdown is quickly becoming the writing standard for academics, scientists, writers, and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments. See More

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Bad support for larger documents

Works good for single file documents like READMEs. Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc. See More

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De facto standard

Markdown is ubiquitous. It's supported by nearly everything. The markup available in the common subset of all the many dialects isn't that rich, but it's usually enough to get the job done. See More

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It doesn't support semantic markup

It's unstructured. See More

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Multi-directional

You can convert HTML to Markdown or Markdown to HTML. You can use tools like pandoc to convert to other formats as well. See More

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Revision friendly

It is easy to track changes for markdown documents as compared to other formats like doc, html, etc. You only need to place your markdown documents under some version control system. See More

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score 201 · Answer 4

Strapi

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Auto-generate REST APIs

Strapi comes with blueprints that let you create, read, update and delete your data. You also can paginate, sort and filter your results in a matter of seconds with simple but yet specific parameters. See More

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Users, groups and permissions

Manage user settings, login, registration, groups and permissions on the fly. Strapi delivers all those essential features out-of-the-box. See More

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Out-of-the-box administration panel

Easy way to manage your application. This panel allows you to add/edit/delete entries for your APIs, manage your users, groups and permissions. In the future, it will be such as WordPress-like administration panel dedicated to your application. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker

License:MIT

Technology:Node.js

Multi Language Support:Yes

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score 59 · Answer 5

enduro.js

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Hardly any github commits since fall '16

See: https://github.com/Gottwik/Enduro/graphs/code-frequency See More

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Minimalistic

No clutter and useless features. See More

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No support for databases

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Beautiful admin panel

Clients are always amazed how smooth and good looking the admin interface is. See More

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Community size

The community around the project looks quite small. Anyone to confirm my thought ? See More

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Productive

Currently, probably the most productive CMS around. There is almost no setup, admin is auto generated, 100% development in code editing, shared backend/front end templates, and shared javascript code. See More

Specs

License:MIT

Service integrations:nODE

Language:JavaScript

Default Template Engine:Handlebars

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score 271 · Answer 6

Ghost

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Open source

Anyone can view code of Ghost since it's under a libre/open source license. See More

Top Con

Commenting must be added

One needs to edit their post.hbs file and add some code from Disqus in order for commenting to be available. See More

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Extremely simple

It only does a few things and it does them well. Unlike WordPress, with which you can build a universe, a blog or anything in between, Ghost is simple. See More

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Expensive

Too expensive for what you actually get. There are other solutions that have more or less the same features at a lower cost. See More

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Markdown support

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be human-readable and easily converted to HTML. Markdown allows HTML code for complete flexibility. See More

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Poor multilingual support

Its editor does not properly support Asian characters such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean due to a bug in IME. It is difficult to write properly in Asian letters. See More

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Custom domain support

Setting up a custom domain is effortless - fill the in the form and change DNS entries. Done. See More

Top Con

Finding Ghost host sites can be difficult

If wanting to host elsewhere, some of the other ghost hosting sites are hard to find, and once found they vary in features and functions. There isn't a single standard of service across the board. See More

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Self-host & paid Ghost(Pro)-host options

You can download the source code and set it up yourself (just make sure your hosting provider supports node.js). Alternatively, you can use their Ghost(Pro) service to let them host it for you. Paid plans start at $10/mo. See More

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Self-hosted might be hard to setup

Requires NodeJS and NPM which both come with a lot of dependencies. Also requires editting configuration files manually. See More

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Official Docker image

Very easy setup with an official image from Docker. Just needs a custom config.json and you are pretty much good to go. See More

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Inappropriate terminology in the UI

Despite some community support of having it removed, Ghost still prominently uses the following phrase in the UI: "Display a sexy logo for your publication." This terminology can be considered exclusionary and even inappropriate in a professional environment. See More

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Theme marketplace

A built-in way to get and set up themes. See More

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Real-time preview

You can see markdown on one side of the pane and the result on the other, while writing. See More

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Customizable

Themes may be uploaded, as can logos and covers. See More

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Free hosting on Github Pages via Buster

You can host your Ghost blog for free on Github Pages if you are OK with it being turned into a static site. You can use Buster to generate a static site from Ghost that can then be hosted on Github Pages. See More

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Affordable hosting available

There are lots of affordable hosting plans available for Ghost blogs. See More

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License:MIT

Language:JavaScript

Template Engine:Handlebars

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score 274 · Answer 7

KeystoneJS

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Out-of-the-box Admin UI

Keystone comes with an auto-generated Admin UI, which makes things very easy for any task that can be completed using Keystone. In any way Keystone is used, the Admin interfaces saves a lot of time and makes any job easier. See More

Top Con

It does not have a built-in roles system

Although registering a new user is very easy, there is not any roles system out-of-the-box. There is only a check box "Access keystone" which gives a user full administrative power. Adding different kind of users is only possible by editing the user data model. See More

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Keystone comes with Express already configured

Express comes out of the box already configured from Keystone or it can be treated like any other Express Middleware. See More

Top Con

Horrible documentation; Keystone5 is unfinished and the team dumped it for a whole (stripped down) new version

Team even admits to a lot of areas being undocumented. Just spent 5 months implementing Keystone5 just to have it marked for deprecation. Next version removes DB Adapters (the entire reason for us implementing it). This project is poorly managed, and extremely difficult to extend due to incomplete documentation. See More

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Keystone has easy form processing

Using the data models defined by the developer, Keystone can validate forms automatically without any more setup. Form validation doesn't get easier than this. See More

Top Con

No auto-reload and no good support for RDBMS

Does not have auto-reload in its backend. Hard to debug. Features found in document, absent in code. No enough support to PostgresQL, no automatic migration See More

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Many cool features

Great CMS with auto-generated admin, schemas... See More

Top Con

No default option to add pages in admin panel

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Easy to install and use

KeystoneJS is very easy to install and use. See More

Top Con

It's hard for front-end developers with no MVC experience setting up views

Keystone follows MVC practices in managing routes, views and templates. Back-end developers with experience in working with MVC frameworks will find themselves at ease since the beginning, but developers who work on the front-end only will have a hard time finding what they are supposed to do to set up templates and such. See More

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Easy email management features

With Keystone it is easy to set up an email management system for an application. It has template-based emails and it's also integrated with Mandrill (Mailchimp's transaction email sending service) See More

Top Con

Some working knowledge of JavaScript, NPM and Databases is needed

MongoDB is required to be up and running and a Yeoman generator is used to generate the application. Although the prompt based start-up in the command line helps you a lot, it still can be hard for someone inexperienced with NPM and Yeoman. See More

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Keystone uses MongoDB through Mongoose

Keystone allows the usage of MongoDB since it comes with Mongoose, the most popular ODM for node and Mongo, this means that anything that is built using Mongo can be built with Keystone. See More

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Packaging externals libraries is tricky

Unless you want to import every JS. See More

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Numerous amounts of templating engines are supported

Keystone supports almost all templating engines out there. Although it uses Jade directly after a fresh install and it points to using it further, other template engines can be installed and used instead. See More

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Effective session management

Keystone has advanced and effective session management and authentication features. Logging in and signing up is easy and it even has password encryption out of the box. See More

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Price:0

Language:NodeJS

Database:Mongo and Postgres

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score 9 · Answer 8

Calipso

Top Con

Has been inactive for long

The last update on GitHub was several months ago. See More

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Calipso runs with MongoDB and Express in the background

Calipso uses MongoDB through Mongoose as a database and it runs on top of Express, the most popular framework for Node. Making it very simple for anyone experienced in Express and used to working with Mongo. See More

Top Con

Installation may be a little hard

Because of Calipso's modular approach, it can be a little hard to get everything ready because if some modules are missing, it can cause trouble. See More

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Calipso is built using a modular approach

Calipso delivers it's functions by using a modular approach. All of the core features that you would expect from a CMS, excluding theming and forms are provided by modules. See More

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Calipso supports the use of stylus in CSS

Calipso also supports the use of stylus for stylesheets and themes. This means that customizing themes with Calipso is very easy. See More

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