Payload is the content framework that accelerates how developers, marketers, and product owners work together.
Payload Self Host Guide
Payload is the content framework that accelerates how developers, marketers, and product owners work together.
Benefits over a regular CMS
- Don’t hit some third-party SaaS API, hit your own API
- Use your own database and own your data
- It's just Express - do what you want outside of Payload
- No need to learn how Payload works - if you know JS, you know Payload
- No vendor lock-in
- Avoid microservices hell - get everything (even auth) in one place
- Never touch ancient WP code again
- Build faster, never hit a roadblock
- Both admin and backend are 100% extensible