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LanguageNodeJS
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DatabaseMongo and Postgres
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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.
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.
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KeystoneJS
Recommended 5 years ago
KeystoneJS is a very nice CMS to work with, despite the fact that it does require technical knowledge to use, the system does work well. At one point the project did appear to be stale but now that work on Keystone 5 is under heavy development and the team has got it'self organised the future looks very...
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Out-of-the-box Admin UIPro
Keystone comes with Express already configuredPro
Many cool featuresPro
Easy to install and usePro
Easy email management featuresPro
Keystone has easy form processingPro
Numerous amounts of templating engines are supportedPro
Keystone uses MongoDB through MongoosePro
Effective session managementPro
Open sourceCon
No default option to add pages in admin panelCon
Some working knowledge of JavaScript, NPM and Databases is neededCon
It's hard for front-end developers with no MVC experience setting up viewsCurrently displaying 1 out of 1 total recommendations.