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GraphCMS vs Netlify CMS: What are the differences?

GraphCMS: GraphQL Based Headless Content Management System. GraphCMS is a GraphQL Based Headless Content Management System. It lets you build a hosted GraphQL backend for your apps and gives you all the tools you need to manage your content; Netlify CMS: Open source content management for your Git workflow. It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

GraphCMS can be classified as a tool in the "Cloud Content Management System" category, while Netlify CMS is grouped under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".

Some of the features offered by GraphCMS are:

  • Localization
  • Webhooks
  • GraphQL API

On the other hand, Netlify CMS provides the following key features:

  • Fast, web-based UI
  • platform agnostic
  • easy install

Netlify CMS is an open source tool with 9.22K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Netlify CMS's open source repository on GitHub.

Unly, wia Ventures, and p1stache are some of the popular companies that use GraphCMS, whereas Netlify CMS is used by onbootstrap, Instruqt, and IT Consultis. GraphCMS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Netlify CMS, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of GraphCMS
Pros of Netlify CMS
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    GraphQL
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    Speeds up time to market Easily create & consume conten
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    API first
  • 1
    Much better than REST
  • 1
    Reliable and scales
  • 1
    Cool dev community
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Free
  • 1
    GraphQL API

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Cons of GraphCMS
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    • 2
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    What is GraphCMS?

    GraphCMS is a GraphQL Based Headless Content Management System. It lets you build a hosted GraphQL backend for your applications and gives you all the tools you need to manage your content.

    What is Netlify CMS?

    It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

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