Ponzu - Headless CMS with automatic JSON API

•    Go

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.

Ghost - The platform for professional publishers

•    Javascript

Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. It powers serious blogs, magazines and journalism from DuckDuckGo to OpenAI & Sky News.

Canner - Universal Content Management System(CMS) framework using React & Apollo GraphQL, for GraphQL and Restful API

•    Javascript

CannerCMS lets you build flexible content management systems easy and fast, CMS developers built for CMS developers. Template CMS, Content Management System can build websites fast, but clients often need custom solutions? Well, what CannerCMS do is let creating custom CMS fast and easy with many clouds.

Tipe - Next Generation API-first CMS for developers

•    Vue

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.

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

•    Javascript

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.

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

•    Javascript

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.

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

•    Javascript

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.

factor - The Minimal CMS for JavaScript

•    Vue

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.

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

•    Javascript

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.

Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers

•    Java

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.

Squidex - Headless CMS and Content Managment Hub

•    CSharp

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.

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

•    Java

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.

Superdesk - News creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform

•    Python

Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organizations of any size. Superdesk is a extensible stack of open source code made to serve independent journalism and newsrooms of all sizes by improving newsroom management and publishing processes.

Daptin - GraphQL/JSON-API Headless CMS

•    Javascript

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.

jss - Software development kit for JavaScript developers building web applications with Sitecore Experience Platform

•    TypeScript

This repository contains source code for all Sitecore JSS packages and sample applications to help you get started using Sitecore JSS. The Next.js-based sample application demonstrates common use cases.

headlesscms.org

•    Javascript

headlesscms.org, a leaderboard of top open-source static site content management systems.Missing a static site generator here? Just fork the repo and add your generator as a <name>.md in the content/projects folder.

mesh-vertx-example

•    HTML

This example shows how to use Gentics Mesh in combination with Vert.x. The Gentics Mesh GraphQL API is being used to located the requested content. This content is used by vertx.x to render various Handlebars templates.

awesome-headless-cms - An awesome list of headless / decoupled CMS resources

An awesome list of headless / decoupled CMS resources

contenta_jsonapi - Contenta CMS, the decoupled Drupal

•    PHP

Contenta is a content API and CMS based on Drupal 8. It provides a standard, jsonapi-based platform for building decoupled applications and websites. Check the full installation instructions below for the commands to restart the web server and regenerate the login link. You will need to install Drush.

headless-cms-comparison - Source repository for the headless cms comparison sheet

For a general overview of Headless CMS systems please visit https://headlesscms.org/. If you want to contribute the list please copy the TEMPLATE.json and open a pull request.