Merge pull request #758 from denolfe/payload-open-source

Payload CMS open-source update

Author: domitriusclark

src/site/headless-cms/payload-cms.md

@@ -7,62 +7,46 @@ opensource: "Yes"
 typeofcms: "API Driven"
 supportedgenerators:
   - All
-description: A self-hosted headless CMS and application framework built with Node.js, Express, React and MongoDB
+description: Payload is a free and open-source headless CMS aimed sharply at providing the best, developer-first experience possible to build out APIs and admin UI.
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-[Payload](https://payloadcms.com/) is a self-hosted headless CMS and application framework built with Node.js, Express, React and MongoDB.
+[Payload](https://payloadcms.com/) is a free and open-source headless CMS aimed sharply at providing the best, developer-first experience possible to build out APIs and admin UI.
 
 <img src="https://payloadcms.com/images/og-image.jpg" alt="Payload brand" />
 
-It’s meant to provide a massive boost to your development process, but more importantly, stay out of your way as your apps get more complex.
-
-Out of the box, Payload gives you a lot of the things that you often need when developing a new website, web app, or native app:
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-<br />
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-- A Mongo database to store your data
-- A way to store, retrieve, and manipulate data of any shape via full REST and GraphQL APIs
-Authentication—complete with commonly required functionality like registration, email verification, login, & password - reset
-- Deep access control to your data, based on document or field-level functions
-- File storage and access control
-- A beautiful admin UI that’s generated specifically to suit your data
-
 <br />
 
 ### Why Payload?
 
-The team behind Payload has been building websites and apps with existing content management systems and application frameworks for over a decade. We know what works and what doesn't about each of the existing solutions, and to this day have found no silver bullet solution.
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-<br />
+Payload is a CMS that is obsessed with giving engineers the best developer experience possible to build out APIs and admin UI. It catapults developers' efficiency and value by delivering an extensible REST and GraphQL API as well as a beautiful React admin panel for non-technical users to manage content—all in TypeScript.
 
-#### **We believe that a CMS should be:**
+From docs to design, it's staunchly code-first, but uncompromising in admin experience. Developers finally have a tool to deliver their admins with a CMS that is beautiful, minimal, extensible, and usable. It can power the backend for websites of all sizes, ecommerce, SaaS, native apps, and more.
 
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-- Cost-effective and should save time and effort
-- Intuitive for developers and content authors alike
-- Self-hosted however and wherever the application specifies
-- Designed in code but used with no coding experience
-- Blazing fast
-- Secure
-- Fully flexible and extensible
+**Payload is our silver bullet solution.** It represents years of passionate development and brings everything we need when we build new apps and websites:
 
 <br />
 
-**Payload is our silver bullet solution.** It represents over two years of passionate development and brings everything we need when we build new apps and websites:
+#### **Highlights:**
 
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-- A beautiful, dynamic, customizable admin UI
-- Extensible and reusable authentication
-- Content localization
-- Local file storage
-- Extremely flexible access control
-- Field conditional logic
-- Block-based layout building
-- Array field type(s)
-- Security
-- and much more
+- Completely open-source
+- [Fully self-hosted](https://payloadcms.com/docs/production/deployment)
+- [GraphQL](https://payloadcms.com/docs/graphql/overview), [REST](https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview), and [Local](https://payloadcms.com/docs/local-api/overview) APIs
+- [Customizable ReactJS Admin](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/overview)
+- [Extensible authentication](https://payloadcms.com/docs/authentication/overview)
+- [Local file storage & upload](https://payloadcms.com/docs/upload/overview)
+- [Field-based localization](https://payloadcms.com/docs/configuration/localization)
+- [Block-based layout builder](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/blocks)
+- [Extensible SlateJS rich text editor](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/rich-text)
+- [Array field type](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/array)
+- [Field conditional logic](https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/overview#conditional-logic)
+- Extremely granular [Access control](https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/overview)
+- [Document and field-level hooks](https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/overview) for every action Payload provides
+- Built with Typescript & very Typescript-friendly
+- Highly secure thanks to HTTP-only cookies, CSRF protection, and more
 
 ### Get Started