Lately I’ve been working with Apostrophe CMS<\/a>, a NodeJS base content management system. The Apostrophe website lists for features “in-context-editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets, and more.” Coming from WordPress, I encountered some familiar concepts like themes and plugins approached from a new perspective. I was excited to take on Apostrophe to say the least.
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\nMy first project is still ongoing. However I wanted to note a few “first impressions” after living with Apostrophe for a month.<\/p>\n

My biggest questions starting off with Apostrophe was surrounding Asset Management, and how do I use a Library like Bootstrap or Foundation<\/a>. Other problems that I encountered were mostly caused by my own ignorance, like not knowing that the button tag having a default type of submit, or not understanding how Node parses folders looking for assets.<\/p>\n

Despite these problems, I am starting to get a handle for how to shape Apostrophe into what I need. Tom Boutell<\/a>, the lead developer for Apostrophe, is very active on StackOverflow, answering all questions about Apostrophe CMs. There is also a support forum available. I found these tools to be very helpful, and encouraged me to try more difficult things with Apostrophe.<\/p>\n

With Apostrophe, everything extends something else pretty much. It took some time to understand the difference between pieces and modules and pages and widgets, but once I got going, everything became less daunting. The flexible nature of Apostrophe will surely inspire creativity as I continue to dive deeper into the CMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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