taubek6d ago

EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS

https://maciekpalmowski.dev/blog/emdash-a-fresh-take-on-cms/

EmDash: a fresh take on CMS | Maciek Palmowski

A look at EmDash CMS from Cloudflare: what it gets right, why it probably won't replace markdown files for most developers, and why it's worth watching anyway.

Show threadgivan6d ago

I'm developing Vvveb CMS and WordPress is very inspiring, the standard to which everyone compares in the industry.

One of the reason WordPress is so ubiquitous is that it's very easy to host and it doesn't need advanced technical knowledge.

PHP hosting is very cheap and WordPress installation is very easy, it's just one click in some hosting dashboards.

The Javascript ecosystem is complex, you need to be a developer and have access to command line to install most Javascript CMSes and need a vps or more expensive hosting.

Show threadcloudpeaklabs
The hosting story is WordPress's biggest moat and most JS CMS projects underestimate it. Though I'd argue the gap is narrowing - a Node app on a $5 VPS with PM2 is getting close to shared PHP hosting simplicity, and platforms like Railway and Fly have made deploys nearly painless. The real remaining barrier is that non-technical users can't self-manage a Node process the way they manage WordPress through cPanel.
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Show threadpatates6d ago

What people also underestimate is the new power of the index.php that comes from the LLMs.

Tell claude to create a php backend to your portfolio html template, drag the generated file to the cheapest server, and you already have a custom CMS.