In order for a web applications to stay relevant, there must be some sort of process put in place to ensure that everything could be updated and modified as quickly as possibly. To fulfill this need, Content Management Systems (or CMS) such as WordPress and Drupal have been created and have experienced an incredible success. That being said, both of these CMS solutions are developed using PHP, which comes as no surprise. After all, these projects were built in the early 2000s, when PHP was looked at as the be-all and end-all in web programming languages. The rise in server-side JavaScript of the last years has resulted in different CMS solutions built on top of Node.js due to its blazing fast speed.

In this article, I’ll give you an overview of three CMS solutions of this type:

  • KeystoneJS
  • Pencilblue
  • Apostrophe 


To give you the best insight possible, I’ll discuss some of the key technologies each of these platforms use and how they are unique from each other. So, you can pick the platform you think will be the best for the project you’re developing.

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