Hi - first time poster, not so long time reader.
I’m thinking about the relaunch of a medium website (500 pages) in Kirby and I see all the potential for building content pages with it.
What I’m trying to evaluate is how to approach tabular data.
I know Kirby can deal with that and I already tried it, but it seems that I can’t setup a db backend to list, filter and edit data in a database, in panels. (I read it’s possible with hooks, but a file will be created nonetheless)
I would love to see that all in Kirby, but I fear I have to find an external database management tool.
I thought about Directus CMS or maybe Cockpit CMS (two headless cms systems), but it feels like a weird compromise to outsource the editing of data that’s tied to the CMS framework.
For example: I have a list of users that need to authenticate to a certain part of the website so see slides and other materials to download.
I have a large list of documents (virtual pages) that need to be edited and filtered in a backend and those can be rendered as html and pdf (rendering is easy though, but editing?)
Maybe it comes down to the Pro and Con of building a monolithic system that can do everything and many micro services.
How have others approached that? How to sell that?
Thanks for your input.
