{"id":285212,"date":"2019-03-21T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=285212"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:58:26","slug":"its-pretty-cool-how-netlify-cms-works-with-any-flat-file-site-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/its-pretty-cool-how-netlify-cms-works-with-any-flat-file-site-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s pretty cool how Netlify CMS works with any flat file site generator"},"content":{"rendered":"
Little confession here: when I first saw Netlify CMS<\/a> at a glance, I thought: cool, maybe I’ll try that someday<\/em> when I’m exploring CMSs for a new project. Then as I looked at it with fresh eyes: I can already use this! It’s a true CMS in that it adds a content management UI on top of any static site generator that works from flat files!<\/strong> Think of how you might build a site from markdown files with Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Middleman, etc. You can create and edit Markdown files and the site’s build process runs and the site is created. <\/p>\n Netlify CMS gives you (or anyone you set it up for) a way to create\/edit those Markdown files without having to use a code editor or know about Pull Requests on GitHub or anything. It’s a little in-browser app that gives you a UI and does the file manipulation and Git stuff behind the scenes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our conferences website<\/a> is a perfect site to build with a static site generator.<\/p>\nHere’s an example.<\/h3>\n