Payload Website CMS

This is the code that powers the official website CMS for Payload. The frontend is built with NextJS and the code can be found here.

Features shown

This CMS showcases many powerful features that Payload is capable of, including:

1. Collections and Globals
2. Access Control to restrict who can do what to the site's data
3. Versions and Drafts functionality
4. A great pattern for how to create reusable fields that can be used and re-used easily
5. Many advanced field types, including the relationship, blocks, array, and many more
6. The official Payload SEO plugin
7. The official Payload Form Builder plugin
8. Auto-generated TypeScript types
9. Lots more

Running locally

You can clone this repo to your own computer and play around super easily.

To do so, you'll need the following software:

• Yarn or NPM
• NodeJS version 10+
• A Mongo Database - IMPORTANT: you need to either have MongoDB running locally, or have signed up for a free MongoDB Atlas server in order to test this repo locally.

Local installation steps:

1. Clone the repo by running the following command at your terminal:

git clone [email protected]:payloadcms/public-demo.git

Navigate to folder and install dependencies

Type cd ./payload-website and then yarn or npm install --legacy-peer-deps to add all required dependencies.

Duplicate the example .env file and fill in your own values

Type cp .env.example .env in your terminal to make a copy of the example .env file, and then edit that file to fill in your own values.

Fire up the development server

Finally, type yarn dev to start up the server and see it in action!