Cms on ServDigest — Honest Reviews of Digital Services

Sanity CMS: The Content Editor Developers Love

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sanity is a headless CMS from Norway, founded in 2015. The main differentiator from competitors: content is structured data, not HTML blocks. Developers describe the schema in code, editors populate it in a real-time collaborative admin panel, and content queries are executed with GROQ — Sanity’s own query language.

Website: sanity.io

Architecture

Sanity separates content and presentation at a fundamental level. Content lives in the Sanity Content Lake — a cloud-based store accessible via API. The admin panel (Sanity Studio) is a React application you can customize to your heart’s content and host anywhere.

Strapi: Open-Source Headless CMS with a Human Face

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Strapi is the number one headless CMS on GitHub by stars. Open source, Node.js under the hood, a flexible content type builder, and auto-generated REST + GraphQL API. Launched in 2015 by a French team and has since grown into an ecosystem of thousands of plugins and hundreds of thousands of users.

Website: strapi.io

How It Works

Unlike WordPress, where content is tightly coupled to a theme and frontend, Strapi is a pure API. You create content types in the admin panel (articles, products, landing pages — whatever you need), populate them through a visual editor, and the frontend fetches data via REST or GraphQL.