[domtron_vox]

Just adding my 2 cents.

I'm creating a website for my parent's farm. Right now I'm using netlify for hosting(free), metal smith as generation, and netlifycms so my parents can edit the content.

For example we raise registered goats so we need to add info for each goat to the web site. I added a new collection for goats, configured it to have the right fields, and added the needed layouts to metalsmith. The information is then used in creating both a summary page that lists all the goats and individual pages for each goat. Only thing I have to pay for is the domain.

I'm really liking it so far. It seems to be very flexible with the ability to extend the code and write your own widgets.

My only complaint about the CMS is the documentation is lacking so you have to dig through code to fix some issues.

Thanks for making this netlifycms devs. :)

[libertyEQ]

Since you have a real world example of this solving your problems, I'd be curious to know if having the CMS funtionality available in an Electron desktop app, using a VPS (e.g. Digital Ocean) to host your metalsmith instance, and fronting it with Cloudflare would be of interest?

[Operyl]

Wouldn’t that complicate their simple solution? I don’t think they wanted to deal with all of that.

[domtron_vox]

I would have to agree with Operyl. I don't have a reason to use the CMS in a desktop app and the site will be pretty low traffic, probably 20-30 unique visits a year or less, and all of it local so I doubt cloudflare would be needed. And I would netlify would have something similar protecting their servers.

That said, it would probably not be that hard to create that electron app. You just need to include 3 files to get netlifycms to work.