payloadcms / payload

Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

Date Created 2021-01-05 (4 years ago)

Commits 13,363 (last one 2 days ago)

Stargazers 34,180 (275 this week)

Watchers 136 (-2 this week)

Forks 2,327

License mit

Ranking

RepositoryStats indexes 641,914 repositories, of these payloadcms/payload is ranked #618 (99th percentile) for total stargazers, and #12,076 for total watchers. Github reports the primary language for this repository as TypeScript, for repositories using this language it is ranked #95/50,834.

payloadcms/payload is also tagged with popular topics, for these it's ranked: javascript (#98/14438), react (#49/11313), typescript (#42/10739), nodejs (#38/7261), nextjs (#14/3497), open-source (#10/2960), mongodb (#8/1904), graphql (#7/1703), express (#4/1032), postgres (#5/849), cms (#5/701), headless (#1/284), jamstack (#3/244), payload (#2/191), headless-cms (#3/141)

Other Information

payloadcms/payload has 285 open pull requests on Github, 5,209 pull requests have been merged over the lifetime of the repository.

Github issues are enabled, there are 300 open issues and 3,052 closed issues.

There have been 500 releases, the latest one was published on 2025-04-17 (3 days ago) with the name v3.35.1.

Homepage URL: https://payloadcms.com

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cms react nextjs nodejs express graphql mongodb payload headless jamstack postgres javascript payloadcms typescript mit-license open-source headless-cms content-management content-management-system

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updated: 2025-04-20 @ 11:09pm, id: 327089870 / R_kgDOE37-zg