TL;DR - I’m wanting to get some feedback about building out a CMS using nothing but WeWeb & Xano.
Quick Background
One of the big reasons I migrated to WeWeb was the ability to have static pages, which are very SEO-friendly compared to the dynamic pages that you typically see with other platforms like Bubble.
I absolutely need both my WeWeb app and my blog on the main domain which (as far as I am concerned) leaves me two options:
Option 1 - Use a headless CMS. What I don’t like about this approach is that it’s an additional cost and very often these headless CMS services require you to use their database.
Option 2 - Build my own CMS where the front-end editor is on WeWeb and host all of the actual post data on Xano. This is the option I want to pursue.
A Rough Outline
Here is how I’m picturing it to work: I have a static page on WeWeb where I would compose my article. Let’s call it /compose/. The page would essentially be a big form with fields for all your typical blog stuff (title, author, hero image, slug, etc).
When I write my post and click “submit”, that data is then sent to a designated “blog” table in my Xano database and that table becomes my static collection. Yes, I’ll have to re-publish my site everytime a new post is made, but that’s fine.
Before I move on to my dillema, is there something I’m missing here? This should work, right?
The “Missing” Piece
Hypothetically, I could use the WYSIWYG element on WeWeb to compose the body of my articles, but being able to insert images is important. I get this is tricky because those images need to be hosted somewhere. I suppose I could hyperlink to already-hosted images I want to use via HTML, but that’s not exactly the smooth nocode experience I’m looking for.
Does anybody have advice for this? Even if there were a 3rd party tool where I could compose my article and then just copy & paste the raw HTML afterwards into a box on my /compose/ page, that would be sufficiant.
At the same time, I don’t want to re-invent the wheel if I don’t have to. I suppose the dream tool would be a low-cost headless CMS that would allow me to use my own database instead of being forced to pay for theirs.
Would appreciate any feedback on this!
