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Fastest Headless CMS on Earth - SonicJs on Cloudflare Workers

Big Plans - Let's make SonicJs the Fastest Headless CMS on Earth!I recently was turned on to Cloudflare Workers by...

Node.js Blog Framework

SonicJs CMS is commonly used as a Node.js Blog Framework. SonicJs comes out of the box with all the standard blog functionality you would expect from well-known blog frameworks such as WordPress.Core FeaturesThe core features belo...

New Project Management Example App

The SonicJs default install now includes a project management example application.See a live demo of the application on the demo site here: https://demo.sonicjs.com/project-management</...

Kill 40% Development Effort with a Node.js Low-Code Platform

If you've developed more than one application in your career, you'll know that there is an inevitable amount of repetition and "re-inventing the wheel" between projects. If you've never used a low code solution / advanced CMS / enterprise applica...

Enhanced menu system

The new menu system uses a tree navigation based menu that includes drag and drop for moving nodes to different places.There is no save button for this UI - Changes are saved automatically in real time.

Drag and Drop Module Improvements

The drag and drop UX has been greatly enhanced, especially on the template regions where there were previously some issues.End users can easily create custom layouts by defining their sections, rows, columns.Users can then add one o...

User profile is now content type driven

In an effort to make the user profile easy to edit from the admin UI, the profile properties are now driven by a content.So if you need to add a new profile property field, let's say "Favorite Sport" you can use the full power of the form ...

SonicJs Now Supports Over 10 Popular Databases!!!

Today marks the release of Beta 0.4.4. This release is packed with new features.Among them is the implementation of TypeORM, a popular Node.js based ORM. Check out https://typeorm.io for details.<li...

DotNetNuke Drawbacks, 4 Reasons to Run Away!

DotNetNuke Drawbacks, 4 Reasons to Run Away!There is certainly a plethora of garbage blog posts regarding the drawbacks and issues with DotNetNuke. While some moronic SEO is happy counting there website visits, I...

4 Drawbacks of Drupal you should know before choosing your CMS

First off, if you google “Drawbacks of Drupal” or “Drupal Review” etc in an effort to get an objective perspective, be warned that most of the results are junk, written by some SEO that has likely never even used Drupal. I just went thru the top ...

What to look for in a Node.js CMS

When a web developer and designer wants to be able to handle a large amount of work without wasting time or fixing bugs and issues, they know that they need a reliable Content Management System in order to get the job don...

KeystoneJs Review

SummaryIn this post, I’ll take a deep dive into KeystoneJs, a popular Node.js/Mongo based CMS.My first impression is that this is a fairly MVP type project after reviewing the docs and demo site. However, ...