Looking for API-only CMS

[Matt Calthrop]

Hi all

I'm going to be using AngularJS to implement a new website that has the following basic requirements of a CMS:

• multiple pages
• ability to specify page hierarchy
• blog posts
• other types of content, eg, news, events etc
• Disqus comments allowed on blog posts (I'm sure I could implement integration if required)

My ideal solution would provide two interfaces:

• a simple admin interface to allow content creators to manage the site content (markdown is fine – wysiwyg editor not essential)
• a REST API, which is what the AngularJS app would use to access the content to be displayed

I have been looking at www.contentful.com, which is a fantastic solution, and ideal in most ways – but turns out to be beyond the budget of my client.

So what experience/advice could you give?

I am guessing this is going to become a more frequent requirement as SPAs continue to take off.

cheers

Matt

[Jonathan El-Bizri]

Not entirely API-only, but I've created a service that works with the Wordpress backend to do all of that. I'm going to push what I have to github in a couple of days. Would this be useful to you?

Jonathan

Jonathan

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[Matt Calthrop]

Thanks for your reply Jonathan.

I don't think it is what I'm looking for, but I'd be interested to see what you've done anyway... so let me know once it's up on github!

cheers

Matt

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[Rafael Nami]

http://ongoworks.com/

It's an open initiative from a friend of mine. I didn't dig into very much, but it seems to use Meteor + Mongo + Coffeescript.

Cheers, Rafa

[Matt Calthrop]

Thanks Rafa, appreciate the reply.

Currently I'm not looking for ecommerce capabilities – unless of course the product is strong on content management as well.

As feedback for your friend, I think it would be really useful to have more information on the website describing what the product does and encompasses. There is some info on the blog, but I reckon it's worth making it more easily accessible. Just my 2p worth!

kind regards

Matt

[johntom]

http://blog-it.nodejitsu.com/ is the best I've seen to date. Would love to convert to sailsjs but haven't had the time.

HTH

John

[Rob Ralston]

Hi,

Just come across your post and wondering what you ended up using for you project? I'm needing something similar and have come across

http://getcockpit.com/ which looks ok but might need some custom modules.

cheers

[Matt Calthrop]

Sad to say we didn't have the budget for a complete rewrite, and opted to stay with Wordpress, as it the original site was built with WP, so it was much more cost-effective to enhance that. Pity, cos it would have been fun!

Matt