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sveltia/sveltia-cms
Git-based headless CMS. Successor to Netlify CMS (now Decap CMS). Modern UX, first-class i18n support, mobile support + 100s of improvements. Framework-agnostic, open source & free.
Sveltia CMS is a ground-up rewrite of Netlify CMS (now Decap CMS), serving as a drop-in replacement with a modern Svelte-based UI. It targets the same audience: developers who want a Git-backed CMS they can drop into a static site without running a server. Actively maintained and already adopted by a decent number of production sites.
First-class i18n support is genuinely better than Decap — locale switching, per-locale validation, and translation integrations are built in rather than bolted on. The backend abstraction covers GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and a local filesystem backend, which makes it usable outside the Netlify ecosystem. The test coverage is broad and structured — nearly every service module has a co-located `.test.js` file, which is more than Decap ever had. Config compatibility with Netlify/Decap CMS means migration is mostly a script tag swap, and they document the exceptions.
It's still a single-maintainer project — the CODEOWNERS file points to one person, which is a real bus-factor problem for something teams will depend on for content operations. The rich-text editor is CodeMirror-based and functional, but it's not on par with what editors expect coming from WordPress or Contentful; you'll hear complaints. No self-hosted backend option — it's always Git as the datastore, which is fine for small teams but falls apart when non-technical editors start producing hundreds of entries and want drafts, approvals, or scheduled publishing without a Git-native workflow in place. The custom widget/component extensibility story exists but is underdocumented compared to what Netlify CMS had at its peak.