decaporg/decap-cms

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS) is an open-source, Git-based content management system for static site generators, built as a React single-page app mounted at /admin of your site. Content is edited through a friendly web UI and stored directly in your Git repository, with configurable content models defined in a single YAML file.

Use cases

• add a friendly editing UI to a Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, or Next.js static site
• let non-technical editors publish content stored in a Git repository
• self-host a free headless CMS without a database
• manage markdown blog posts and collections via a web editor
• run an editorial draft-review-publish workflow on top of Git branches
• manage media assets for a Jamstack site

When to choose

• your content lives in a Git repository alongside a static site generator
• you want a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS with no database
• editors need a simple UI with rich text, previews, and media uploads
• you want content versioning and workflows handled through Git

When to avoid

• you need a traditional database-backed CMS with dynamic server rendering
• you require advanced roles, centralized user management, or enterprise support out of the box
• your content is highly relational and unsuited to flat files in Git
• you need real-time collaborative editing

Facets

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ui-components auth file-upload search-engine plugin-system configuration-management cms web-development frontend version-control self-hosted browser self-hosted headless-cms git-based-cms netlify-cms-successor jamstack static-site-generator react editorial-workflow content-modeling markdown yaml-config web-server nodejs javascript

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