sveltia/sveltia-cms
Leading Git-based headless CMS. Successor to Netlify/Decap CMS. Modern UX, first-class i18n support, mobile support + numerous improvements. Framework-agnostic, open source & free.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 36 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #100 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 9, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modern, Git-based headless CMS optimized for Jamstack sites with a framework-agnostic, single-page web application.
- Delivers improved performance, security, reliability, and first-class internationalization support compared to its predecessor Netlify/Decap CMS.
- Use for managing multilingual marketing sites with seamless i18n support and mobile-friendly content editing.
- Use for migrating existing Netlify/Decap CMS or WordPress sites to a lightweight, modern CMS with enhanced UX and developer experience.
- Use for building static sites with frameworks like Astro, Eleventy, or vanilla JavaScript while maintaining Git-based content versioning.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Sveltia CMS is a leading Git-based headless CMS for Jamstack sites. It’s open source, free, and a complete modern rewrite of Netlify CMS, now known as Decap CMS.
Designed for content editors and developers alike, Sveltia CMS delivers a great UX/DX, powerful features, and first-class internationalization (i18n) support — all in a small, maintenance-free, single-page web application served from a CDN. Its generic-purpose approach makes it suitable for a wide range of projects, from personal blogs and portfolios to marketing sites and knowledge bases.
As the de facto successor to Netlify/Decap CMS, we continue to deal with issues reported in their repository, of which 310 have now been solved in Sveltia CMS (720 including duplicates). It incorporates numerous enhancements while maintaining high compatibility with existing installations. A growing number of projects, including a U.S. government website, are switching from Netlify/Decap CMS to Sveltia CMS to enjoy its significantly improved performance, security, reliability, and experience.
Sveltia CMS is framework-agnostic and can also be used for vanilla JavaScript sites. It’s an excellent option for people moving away from a traditional CMS or website builder and looking for a lightweight headless CMS that works well with a static site generator (SSG) like Astro, Eleventy, or Hugo.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+313 stars over 78 days across 7 snapshot days; best day +2 on Aug 11.
Forks
228+42
Open issues
27-36
Compared with peers in Documentation
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tencent/WeKnora | 36.5K | +721 | 55 | 6 days ago |
| github/docs | 21.3K | +136 | 45 | — |
| getzola/zola | 17.6K | — | 57 | 47 days ago |
| scalar/scalar | 16.3K | — | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Tencent/cherry-markdown | 4.9K | — | 60 | 6 days ago |
| sveltia/sveltia-cms | 3.0K | — | 40 | today |
| Category median | 17.6K | +429 | 57 | — |
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