2014/UK/indie-cms

CMS was a session at IndieWebCamp UK 2014.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indiewebcamp-cms

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When: 2014-09-06 12:20

Hashtag: #CMS

Participants

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Notes

Discussion comparing different ways to use and/or build CMSes.

Roll your own?

• Hard!
• Requires maintenance
• often happens because current tools don't do what you want
• Customization
• Learn stuff?
• Ops Overhead

From group, six people had rolled their own, a few ruby and PHP, mentions of C#, Node, Python and Go.

Data Storage

• Databases
  • Each system uses their own format
  • You have to write Exporter / Importer
  • "Bro, do you even backup?"

• HTML
  • Much harder to lose / corrupt
  • Viewable in the browser

Off the shelf

• Lock in?
• Easy mode
• Tested
• possibly crufty

Frameworks

Ones that people at talk had used:

• Django CMS (Python)
• Drupal (PHP)
• Wordpress (PHP)
• Kirby (PHP)
• MUDX (PHP)
• Expression Engine (PHP)
• Craft (PHP)
• TYPO3 (PHP)
• Ghost (Node)
• Jekyll (Ruby)
• Hoisted (PHP)
• Perch (PHP)
• Docpad (PHP)

Interesting

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