I am one of those who don’t often change tools, especially when the tools are effective and reasonably priced. WordPress is no longer efficient, but Craft CMS still is. However, as a Laravel developer, I ventured into Statamic, and I loved it!
The fact that I develop using Laravel Herd is an advantage for Statamic, because with Craft CMS, a Dockerized method using DDEV is recommended. Though I know there must be a way to make it work with Herd as well, I've never managed to do it.
However, the fact that Statamic is flat-file based creates a lot of confusion for a developer coming from a world where there's always a database as the backbone. I haven't yet developed "the right instincts" and setting up my environments is still a bit complex, as I'm always afraid of overwriting my production content with my local data. I'll get there, but it's tough.
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One thing I really miss about Craft CMS when working with Statamic is its documentation, especially for templating. Antlers is great, but it’s not always well-documented. For instance, if I have a Replicator to create buttons (with a Link field and a Text field), I can get it to work, but I’d like to be able to hide a button if the linked entry isn’t published. And for that, I couldn’t find anything in the documentation to help me with this specific scenario, so I simply disabled the replicator block for lack of a better solution. It works, but it’s still an extra step.
All in all, I love Statamic—the branding, the vibrant community, the overall idea behind the CMS—I like almost everything about it.
I know there are also other interesting Laravel-based CMSs like October and Winter (which seems to be a fork of October, though I haven't compared them).
Thoughts?
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