Payload

Overall rating

8.4

Stars: 31314

Contributors: 299

Payload CMS is a modern and robust content management system designed to provide developers and content creators with an efficient and flexible platform for building and managing digital content. It is engineered to integrate seamlessly with custom applications, offering a range of powerful features to support complex content structures and workflows. Payload CMS is suitable for a variety of projects, from simple websites to intricate applications, thanks to its highly customizable nature and developer-friendly environment.

Key Features

  • Completely free and open-source
  • GraphQL, REST, and Local APIs
  • Easily customizable ReactJS Admin
  • Fully self-hosted
  • Extensible Authentication
  • Local file storage & upload
  • Version History and Drafts
  • Field-based Localization
  • Block-based Layout Builder
  • Extensible SlateJS rich text editor
  • Array field type
  • Field conditional logic
  • Extremely granular Access Control
  • Document and field-level hooks for every action Payload provides
  • Built with Typescript & very Typescript-friendly
  • Intensely fast API
  • Highly secure thanks to HTTP-only cookies, CSRF protection, and more
Activity

Last update: Jan 13, 2025

  • Commits (last week)

    71

  • Resolved issues (last week)

    108

  • Merged PRs (last week)

    69

Maturity

Last update: Jan 18, 2025

  • Age

    4 years 13 days

  • Stability

    STABLE

Information

Funding

Has commercial version

Programming languages

TypeScript
SCSS
JavaScript

Tags

express
payload
jamstack
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mit-license
headless
mongodb
nodejs
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react
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content-management-system
nextjs
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postgres
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