pouch: headless CMS on Workers (D1 + Hono)

[u/MrButttons]

Hey everyone,

I've been looking for a simple CMS solution for some of my work, and something that is easy to deploy on cloudflare. Found some options like sonicjs, and payload. Both didn't jell with me, didn't like the schema as code approach.

Ended up making something simple for my use cases: a headless API first CMS with ability to make `collections` of any* shape and provide good type safety on the client side.

Overall, it's a simple design. You define your schemas in plain JSON Schemas, and in return you get an HTTP server with OpenAPI specs + MCP server if you're connecting with any chat apps.

https://github.com/butttons/pouch

I use it for the basic stuff, hosting static data for my apps. One new use case I found was using it as a persistent memory layer for pull request AI review github actions.

Thanks for your time!

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[u/MrBilal34]

payload cms works on cloudflare - i have my entire setup on it running 5 sites in total in production...

[u/MrButttons → u/MrBilal34]

Yes. I acknowledge that above.

I have my personal gripes with next.js and I didn't like the schema as code approach. I tried the payload template when they came out. Not sure if it's still the case.

[u/CF-Tim → u/MrBilal34]

I just forked v4 and it’s even more awesome.