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What in JavaScript are you using to take the place of a server side database?

Your comment seems to imply that the only options are SPA or WordPress..

If you are building something that would normally need to be a desktop app, sure, an SPA might be a good idea. But this is still rarely the case, most web pages are just are just presenting data, and in those cases, the less JavaScript the better.

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I'm not. If your application needs a database, then it needs a backend. An SPA isn't inherently a "backendless" application.

A better question to me is, what does WordPress offer that a static site generator like Jekyll can't?

A management system my photographer friend can use without learning what "CLI" or "GitHub" are. They just login and make changes.

There's https://www.netlifycms.org/ if you want a static site generator with a CMS, FYI.

Are you aware of any open source applications as a CMC for static generators like Jekyll? Would be very convenient to have one with a a simple github login/auth settings page and then add/edit page/post options and the ability to select or upload a theme would be great.

NetlifyCMS works with Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Middleman and a few others.

https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/jekyll/

Yup, exactly that. WordPress editors (WYSIWYG and Gutenberg) are still far more user-friendly and mature than a Netlify CMS that still is buggy like hell and where many little details and YAML formattings need to be fixed in code editor. You really cannot expect such a thing to be done by a non-coding person.

my photographer friend can use ftp

my photographer friend can also add <img> tags to static html documents.

A huge variety of plugins, and a large pool of cheap developers with plenty of experience in the stack. I personally like Jenkins, but if I’m handing the site over to a low-tech client, I’d use WordPress hosted on managed WordPress.

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