Big announcement from #StrapiConf Keynote 2025:
Strapi gets a Live Preview feature 🤩 Only available for Growth and Enterprise plans though, not for Community Edition.
https://strapi.io/features/live-preview
Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2G_yG-_wPQ
#strapi #strapicms #cms #webdev
@gorgonzola to be fair: real good live preview with side-by-side editing hasn't been integrated in most PHP CMSes as well, I only know a good implementation from CraftCMS? And headless is relatively new for PHP CMSes as well and still a challenge?
Regarding other stuff like SSR, I totally agree 🤓😁
@gorgonzola @mariohamann @statamic okay, good point 👍
But Statamic has its own challenges (professional git collaboration and sync with team > 5 devs for example). Therefore I'm not really sure if PHP CMSes do things really well yet - or if more innovation from NodeJS side is still needed as well. Storyblok did some with cloud + local dev bridge, Payload (created by one ex-WordPress+Dev) has still to show it's strengths, etc.
And it's a huge difference if one freelancer or max 2 devs work work on a project - or multiple devs in enterprise projects 🤷
And VC backed software is a good and critical point... But I experience it in the DDEV Open Source Community - it's hard to get funding for only 2 maintainers...
@mandrasch @gorgonzola @statamic Hm. "Der Spiegel" uses Statamic for all of their content. And I'm currently building something with a total of 4 developers. Not sure if I can relate. :)
What I understand is that the handling of data, migrations etc. can be a challenge — which could be reduced when switching to a database approach. And... data migration is a challenge in EVERY CMS in my opinion.
Would be curious what was your concrete experience?
@mariohamann @gorgonzola I know the Spiegel Story, but they use it in their special own ways (https://statamic.com/blog/statamic-at-spiegel-scale-2 - see screenshot. I'd be more convinced if an agency does Statamic at full scale.
My experience while evaluating Statamic was this a couple of years ago:
A) It's hard to separate content from config, but there is a new online course about it (didn't check it)
https://dev.to/mandrasch/separate-content-from-config-in-statamic-466e
b) There is no admin level restriction on Live server https://github.com/statamic/cms/discussions/6289
c) For CMSes like TYPO3, Drupal, CraftCMS - you can pull down the live database (and uploaded files) with a ssh and rsync command. For Statamic, there is Git Automation or switching to DB mode. 1/
d) For CraftCMS, there is "php craftcms up" for deployment which applies all project config changes (entry type changes, fields) to the live database on deployment. https://craftcms.com/knowledge-base/deployment-best-practices#codify-deployment-steps
I haven't seen that for Statamic. Kirby has the same challenge. What if Developer A does some massive content structure changes and we want to deploy it safely and robust?
As you said - that is a challenge for all CMSes.
Each system and approaches has their strengths and weaknesses, but as far as I know Craft CMS took the biggest step towards "automatically keeping the config and data structure in git" and provide a way to deploy it.
Strapi has it in git, but there is not auto-migration if you change entry fields / do bigger structural challenges as far as I know. 2/
@mariohamann @gorgonzola Therefore I didn't follow up with Statamic after trying it out - instead I looked more into Craft CMS which had separation of content and config built-in from the start (via project config https://craftcms.com/docs/5.x/system/project-config.html)
This auto-magic approach has some drawbacks as well, but it's one way of doing solid and robust deployments.
It will be interesting what https://payloadcms.com/ ends up it for example.
But it totally depends on your requirements. I looked at it from the "professional development with git" perspective with separation of content and configuration - which I had seen from TYPO3 teams. (And which wasn't possible with standard out-of-the-box WordPress for example ^^)
Maybe there are agencies or companies which fixed the troubles I had with Statamic? 3/3
Matthias Andrasch
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