Serverless as alternative to wordpress?

Serverless Architectures
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Hello everyone,

I would like to build a website for something that is being promoted on facebook, yelp and other social media marketing, so mostly images.

I love hugo framework but coming from server management background I don’t want to deal with design.
Is there a way that I could setup front end (some WYSIWYG) so someone else could takeover and manage it?

What I was thinking of doing is to:

  • put hugo+frontend on ec2 but that’s not really serverless.

Is there really wordpress alternative in serverless world or it’s too early yet?

Thank you

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I haven’t seen any fully baked wordpress like solutions out there but checkout our site: https://github.com/serverless/site it’s built with phenomic.io and hosted on a CDN via netlify.

We are using auth0 for user login/auth stuff and have a couple of serverless functions handling various web tasks.

One thing that I’m looking into is an admin like interface for the static site by using: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms

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I highly recommend checking out the CRUD example https://github.com/pmuens/serverless-crud

You can start to see how you could use serverless functions to recreate the wordpress admin backend.

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It’s a bit more complicated than Wordpress but you could use a static site generator like Jekyll. I’ve seen sites using it handed over to non-technical staff inside marketing and design departments with a bit of training.

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Jekyll is a good option too.

I love http://phenomic.io b/c I can use all my react components for the site =)

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I invite you to take a look at my latest open source project https://github.com/sirceljm/LambdaBlogPlatform

It is a blogging platform based on AWS Lambda. Unlike static site generators you can:

  • setup your HTML templates
  • write posts in web editor
  • have a contact form

This is for now but I plan to add other stuff as well :slight_smile:

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What’s the differences from https://github.com/serverless/serverless-graphql-blog?