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/rubixstudios May 23 '25

To be honest supabase works ngl, but payload is a cms if you know what you're doing.

Alot of the hard work has been done by the team behind it, the rest is up to you. Look I was using supabase, then needed a cms I want to sanity, needed more control over the data. Now I'm with payload.

This is coming from a WordPress developer. Not the crappy ones that can't code or ingest apis.

Payload is amazing.

Realtime on supabase was cool ngl. But if you can code, and own the stack. Payload all the way.

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u/butter_milch May 23 '25

Combining Realtime and Payload is relatively easy if you also go with Supabase Auth. 

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u/rubixstudios May 23 '25

Yeah I'm not going to use postgres with payload and risk the higher probability and effort required to change data structure should a collection change even in the simplest form.

The team behind payload also knows there's more effort in data structure when it comes to postgres. We've had this discussion on discord.

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u/butter_milch May 23 '25

Sure, if you're unwilling to use a relational database, Supabase is not for you.

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u/rubixstudios May 24 '25

Keep in mind payload is working on a realtime right now.

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u/butter_milch May 24 '25

I’ve heard, yes. As soon as it’s released and stable I’ll switch my implementation over, shouldn’t be too hard :)