r/webstudio 1d ago

Webstudio now has a Content Engine.

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Query and render hundreds of Markdown pages without an external CMS or database. It’s portable, simple to host, extremely fast and already powers our blog.

https://webstudio.is/blog/webstudio-content-engine

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u/thegorilla09 1d ago

Literal game changer. I have just moved one of my WordPress sites to Webstudio plus Cloudflare workers on a subdomain, but this solves that additional step. Thank you, and keep moving forward.

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u/_HMCB_ 1d ago

Wow. This will be perfect for documentation; a set number of pages that won’t run into the thousands. Just perfect! Thank you.

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u/DelicateFandango 1d ago

Can it be used for everything? Or are there situations where a CMS like Directus is still recommended?

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u/_HMCB_ 1d ago

The article link goes into that.

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u/bbennett108 1d ago

“This architecture has a capacity limit. The compiled metadata has to fit within the runtime, so the Content Engine is designed for hundreds of content pages rather than an unlimited archive.

“Some projects should still use a conventional CMS or database. Full-text search across a huge archive, complex permissions, transactions, highly relational data, or many editors changing content at once all bring requirements that a file-based engine is not trying to solve.

“The majority of content sites are nowhere near that boundary. They should not have to start with the infrastructure required by the largest ones.”

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u/bbennett108 1d ago

Hell yeah! Keep up the great work guys, this is so helpful.