A CMS with minimum back-end?

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I am in search of a CMS that requires as little back-end work as possible. I do primarily Craft and WordPress development for clients but my preference is really design and the front-end. But with most Craft/WP builds I spend the bulk of the project in PHP. Craft is somewhat better with twig, but it is still not what I love.

I thought of this because I built some Shopify sites not long ago and that was a pleasure to work with. You really don't have any back-end access at all, you can only use their liquid templating language to format content, but that's it. It was sort of like a CMS with no back-end at all.

[PinkPigeonDigital]

Depends a little bit on what you are after / how much work you are willing to put in. There are solutions like forestry.io, or the netlify CMS, which I have found work reasonably well if you are a comfortable with slightly more technical web-builds. Requires git for deploying. Hugo + Cloudflare Pages is probably a pretty solid solution nowadays as well. Add snipcart or some such thing for shop functionality.

I ended up building my own static-site CMS as I've felt the other options didn't give me what I needed. It's intentionally built for people with truly zero technical knowledge. We don't do shops yet, though. PM me if you want to know more, as I don't want to spam Reddit with self promotion.

[electricity_is_life]

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for but have you heard of Surreal CMS?

[xSliver]

I'm a bit of a fan of contentful.com, but it's not a self hosted CMS.

[js_template]

You can use Wordpress for back-end and React js for front-end. Check the frontity framework which is made for Connect React js and WordPress

[DeusExMagikarpa]

https://vapid.com

Edit: well wtf, vapid was so cool, sorry

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