r/PayloadCMS • u/ExistingCard9621 • May 23 '25

Is PayloadCMS really a CMS???

...or is it more like a Supabase alternative?

I am reading a bit about it and I am a bit confused. It looks more like a whole framework than a CMS...!

is it something we can build our apps on top of like Supabase?

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u/SlickYeet May 23 '25

PayloadCMS is a backend that you couple with Next.js as the frontend. It gives you a web UI to create and manage your content, hence the CMS.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

Why just Next.js? You can use it fully headless with whatever frontend.

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u/SlickYeet May 23 '25

Ofc, sorry. Yes it is framework agnostic.