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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Many cool features
Great CMS with auto-generated admin, schemas...
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Packaging externals libraries is tricky
Unless you want to import every JS.
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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.
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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.
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enduro.js
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Hardly any github commits since fall '16
See: https://github.com/Gottwik/Enduro/graphs/code-frequency
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Minimalistic
No clutter and useless features.
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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.
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Community size
The community around the project looks quite small. Anyone to confirm my thought ?
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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.
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License:
MIT
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nODE
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JavaScript
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Ghost
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Open source
Anyone can view code of Ghost since it's under a libre/open source license.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Custom domain support
Setting up a custom domain is effortless - fill the in the form and change DNS entries. Done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Theme marketplace
A built-in way to get and set up themes.
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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.
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Customizable
Themes may be uploaded, as can logos and covers.
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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.
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Affordable hosting available
There are lots of affordable hosting plans available for Ghost blogs.
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MIT
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JavaScript
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Payload CMS
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Code-first
All schemas are configurable in code and can be checked into version control.
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Localization support
Support for multi-language content is built in and highly configurable.
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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.
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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
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It's expensive
1000 dollars per month.
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Subtitles
Subtitles can be created automatically and in an impressive quality.
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Graphic
Unfortunately the graphics cannot be changed during the stream.
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Video file
The video is available immediately after the livestream for download in different resolutions.
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Own player
A video player, which can be integrated into any website, is included. On request also with a chat.
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Cutting
It is possible to cut content from the running stream and export or publish it.
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Teamwork
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Graphics
Graphics, such as a logo, can be displayed
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DocPad
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Built on Node
DocPad is published as an NPM module which makes it easy to integrate with an existing Node.js deployment.
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Support for Handlebars templates is not mature - integration is awkward
Handlebars' philosophy of "no logic in templates" makes some things difficult: DocPad built-in template helpers aren't available by default - they have to be manually added/exposed DocPad's example template code often includes logic, which makes it impossible to use within Handlebars templates -- it has to be abstracted into custom helper functions. Can't pass objects to function calls from within HB templates.
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Has an active plug-in ecosystem
DocPad's has a large amount of plug-ins available to extend its functionality and compatibility with other language preprocessors and markup languages. Javascript preprocessors include: Coffescript, TypeScript, and LiveScript. CSS preprocessors include: LESS, SASS, Stylus, and Roole HTML markups include: Markdown, and Textile Templating engines include: Eco, Handlebars, Moustache, HAML, CoffeeKup, Jade, and Teacup JSON converters include: YAML and CSON
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More up-front investment to learn/use well
DocPad provides a LOT of extensibility and dynamic capability, which means there's more up-front investment to learn DocPad well -- and deviating from the defaults while maintaining project robustness may be difficult.
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Has Live Reload
DocPad has a Live Reload plug-in that leverages websockets to automatically update the blog content for users live on the site.
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Written in CoffeeScript (which could be a Pro depending on your preference)
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Built on top of the Express framework
Although DocPad is a static site generator, if you find the need to, you can extend the site with the Express framework for dynamic content as well.
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Code samples in Documentation and any online Q&As are in CoffeeScript only (no JavaScript samples available)
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Has graphical admin interfaces for managing your blog
There are multiple custom interfaces, including miniCMS available to DocPad which provide WYSIWYG editing and article management.
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The default template engine (Eco) only supports CoffeeScript, not JavaScript
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Easy to deploy
Deployment plug-ins make deploying to hosting providers even easier, with plug-ins for GitHub Pages, AWS, and Google Storage.
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The default template engine (Eco) does not support multi-line code tags
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MIT-licensed
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Prebuilt Skeletons
Skeletons are boilerplate setups to provide a baseline structure for you to fill content into.
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Document and file querying with Query Engine
DocPad leverages Query Engine to provide a query API for querying files.
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HashBrown CMS
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Modular
Strings, numbers and booleans are the basic building blocks for any site, but the fun really starts when you're building with arrays, structs, date pickers, media references, tags and dropdowns. HashBrown comes with 16 built-in field types, and gives you the power to combine them any way you please.
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Main domain not have SSL certification
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Consistent
HashBrown is built on Node.js, sharing data models with the client side code. MongoDB is used to store site data, as a document database most accurately reflects the content of a complex website. This means that the content is always format consistent, and there is no incompatible serialisation and deserialisation happening between client and server.
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Main domain not have SSL certification
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Pluggable
Even though HashBrown is already a very flexible system out of the box, you may want to increase the flexibility even further to suit your needs. You may also want to add your own connection type, to allow publishing of your content to some obscure front-end that you wrote 15 years ago. It's all possible through the power of plugins.
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No session management
Your site needs to handle user sessions by itself.
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Multilingual
With built-in support for languages, you can easily create a multilingual and multicultural website. There is no need for you to create your content trees multiple times for every language, nor is there a need for you to pay any particular attention to it when you create your fields. A simple "multilingual" switch is all you need, and you're good to go.
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Relatively new to the game
With only 3 years in development, HashBrown hasn't had the amount of field testing that other seasoned CMS'es benefit from.
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Free and open source
There are no fees, binary blobs, restrictive policies or asterisks.
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Multitasking
If you've ever found yourself running multiple copies of your CMS for development, staging and production environments, dumping and restoring databases to migrate content between them, and pulling your hair out over how tedious and error prone that is, look no further. HashBrown is built from the ground up as a multi-site, multi-environment system.
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Lightweight
Despite being a very sophisticated machine, HashBrown could run on your toaster. As HashBrown only needs resources when you're changing your website's content, it's mostly idle. This makes it the cheapest CMS for hosting purposes, as well as enables you to run it on that Raspberry Pi you've been neglecting.
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Secure
By storing your website's content separately from the site itself, you are not only making it hard for attackers to bring down your site, you are also rendering the effort completely pointless. There is simply no database on your website from which to steal information and hold ransom. You can secure HashBrown behind a VPN and still have a publicly accessible site, consisting of statically generated HTML.
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Connectable
HashBrown won't tell you how to do your job. It is and always will be exclusively a content management system, and not a rendering engine. This means you can plug it into any web solution you want, whether you're running GoLang, PHP, Node.js, .NET, Ruby or Python on your end doesn't matter to HashBrown at all. You are free to develop with your preferred tools at all times.
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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.
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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.
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Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker
License:
MIT
Technology:
Node.js
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