[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.