Strapi - Node.js Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful API with no effort.

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The most advanced open-source Content Management Framework to build powerful API with no effort. It is elegant, entirely customizable and fully extensible admin panel, Built on top of Node.js and supports any front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, etc.), mobile apps or even IoT. Halfway between a CMS and a framework, Strapi takes advantages of both worlds. A powerful dashboard to easily manage your content with a flexible framework layer to develop and integrate specific features.

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Bolt CMS - A tool for Content Management, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible

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Bolt is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. It's built on PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, API-Platform and more. Bolt can be used as a traditional CMS or headless/decoupled. It is fully multilingual, and extensible using custom code in your projects, or through extensions installed from the Composer ecosystem.

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Daptin - GraphQL/JSON-API Headless CMS

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Daptin is a headless CMS framework to develop and deploy production-ready JSON API based servers. Its feature include Database backed persistence, Rest JSON APIs, OAuth Authentication, Host static sites on multiple sub-domains, Use any cloud storage providers as persistence for files and assets.

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Tipe - Next Generation API-first CMS for developers

•    Vue

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Tipe is next Generation API-first CMS. It helps to shape and design content for any project you and your team are working on. Focus and create meaningful content without blocking development. Access your content on any app or platform with our sophisticated next generation APIs.

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graphql-auto-generating-cms - Use your existing graphQL schema to generate CMS in a couple steps

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GraphQL CMS will build a fully-functional CMS by just using your printed GraphQL schema without any changes in your existed code or architecture.

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Statamic - Flat-first, Laravel + Git powered CMS designed for building beautiful, easy to manage websites

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Statamic is built as a highly extendable, standalone capable, Laravel package. If you’re already a Laravel developer, you’ll feel right at home extending core features with Models, Service Providers, and Middleware. You can even drop it into existing Laravel applications to add a full CMS in seconds.

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Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers

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Gentics Mesh is an Open Source API-first CMS for developers. All contents can be stored/updated and retrieved using the REST API. Gentics Mesh provides the means to organize your contents in terms of a content tree, or rather a node tree. Nodes can be hierarchically structured if a container schema is provided.

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unite-cms - Really flexible headless CMS, built on top of Symfony and GraphQL.

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This is the new and current version of unite cms. You can already use it, however docs (https://docs.unitecms.io) are still under development. This is the old version of unite cms, docs can be found here https://www.unitecms.io/docs.html.

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Keystone - A scalable platform and CMS to build Node.js applications

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Keystone is a scalable platform and CMS to build Node.js applications. Keystone comes with first-class GraphQL support, a highly extensible architecture, and a wonderful Admin UI. It has less focus on hand-holding Node.js template-driven websites and more focus on flexible architecture, a powerful GraphQL API with deep authentication & access control features, an extensible Admin UI and plugins for rich field types, file and database adapters, and session management.

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Crafter CMS - A New Kind of CMS for the Entire Team

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Crafter CMS is an open source content management platform for digital experience apps. A new kind of CMS backed by Git that enables developers, content authors, and devops to work together collaboratively to deliver stunning personalized, multi-channel experiences faster and easier than ever before.

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v8-archive - Directus Database API — Wraps Custom SQL Databases with a REST/GraphQL API

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Our Core team is quite small and can not maintain legacy versions of Directus. We'll glady review any community pull-requests to this repository, but using this version is highly discouraged. Directus is released under the GPLv3 license. RANGER Studio LLC owns all Directus trademarks and logos on behalf of our project's community. Copyright © 2006-2020, RANGER Studio LLC.

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Cockpit - Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play / headless / api-first CMS

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Cockpit is a self-hosted headless and api-driven CMS. It is a simple content platform to manage any structured content. Cockpit is not a web site builder. It is a content provider. Consume the content the way you want. It is focusing just on the back-end work to manage content. Rather than worry about delivery of content through pages, its goal is to provide structured content across different channels via a simple API.

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Ponzu - Headless CMS with automatic JSON API

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Ponzu is a powerful and efficient open-source HTTP server framework and CMS. It provides automatic, free, and secure HTTP/2 over TLS, a useful CMS and scaffolding to generate content editors, and a fast HTTP API on which to build modern applications.

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Directus - A headless CMS, API driven content management framework

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Directus is a database API and "headless" CMS. Unlike traditional CMS that encompass your entire project codebase, the decoupled approach of Directus offers an API and SDKs to connect your content to: websites, native apps, kiosks, IoT devices, or any other data-driven projects. Directus makes no assumptions about how you should architect your database – giving you complete freedom to optimize structure and performance for projects of any size or complexity.

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Squidex - Headless CMS and Content Managment Hub

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Squidex is an open source headless CMS and content management hub. In contrast to a traditional CMS Squidex provides a rich API with OData filter and Swagger definitions. It is up to you to build your UI on top of it. It can be website, a native app or just another server. We build it with ASP.NET Core and CQRS and is tested for Windows and Linux on modern browsers.

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factor - The Minimal CMS for JavaScript

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Factor is a VueJS Application Framework and Headless CMS. It helps to wield a powerful post system and dashboard to simplify your backend design and add complete content-management.

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The Sanity Content Studio – Collaborate in real-time on structured content

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The Sanity Studio is an open-source CMS built with React.js. It offers rapid configuration and free form customization. It ships as an open-source single page application. Install plugins from npm or build your own. Integrate Sanity in your applications. It provides instant updates, describe content models, validations, and UI structures in JavaScript and see them instantly hot-reload in the next window.

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Ghost - The platform for professional publishers

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Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. It powers serious blogs, magazines and journalism from DuckDuckGo, Tinder, OpenAI, Sky News and many more.

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apostrophe - Apostrophe is a full-featured, open-source CMS built with Node

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ApostropheCMS is content software for everyone in an organization. It helps teams of all sizes create dynamic digital experiences with elegance and efficiency by blending powerful features, developer happiness, and a low learning curve for content creators. Apostrophe has powered websites and web apps for organizations large and small for over a decade. To get started with Apostrophe 3, follow these steps to set up a local development environment. For more detail, refer to the A3 getting started guide in the documentation.

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No-CMS - No-CMS, A CodeIgniter Based CMS Framework

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No-CMS is a CMS-framework. No-CMS is a basic and "less-assumption" CMS with some default features such as user authorization (including third party authentication), menu, module and theme management. It is fully customizable and extensible, you can make your own module and your own themes. It provide freedom to make your very own CMS, which is not provided very well by any other CMS.