How to migrate from Contentful to Payload, a Next.js native CMS & app framework

🚚 Migrating from Contentful to Payload? This is a deep dive into how to migrate a Contentful project to Payload 3.0. Even if migration isn’t on your radar, stick around as we explore concepts that are applicable on leveraging Payload 3.0 in general.
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A primer on Payload ...
- The fastest growing CMS in our category.
- Next.js native, so it can seamlessly integrate it into your Next app. You can also one-click deploy on Vercel.
- Fully open-source, offering the flexibility of self-hosting or managed hosting.
- Fully TypeScript, eliminating the need to navigate through a UI - simply configure everything in code.
- Highly extensible, granting you full control over custom hooks, endpoints, and more. It's not just a CMS; you can extend it to become a comprehensive backend for any application you build.
- Use as a standalone app if you're working with other frameworks.
Get started in one line: npx create-payload-app@beta
Big thanks to our friends at 10xMedia.de, a Payload preferred agency, who created this video.

[@fhorray]

I'm really anxious for the 3.0 stable version! Payload is amazing!

[@zaderku]

Although I don't use contentful, the wealth of knowledge of showing how Payload maps to familiar content types is so valuable.

[@ElcoBrouwervonGonzenbach]

Thanks for a very helpful video. I have just started a project migrating from Contentful to Payload, so your timing couldn't have been better!

[@Vrtel__]

I would like to see more in the live preview. Especially in the context of 3.0.

[@NicolaCaldo]

You should build the Wordpress migration tool if you want to really enter the market

[@augigauki]

great content! would love to see some more advanced stuff explored like custom SSO strategies, syncing a collection with external data and more

[@minggux1694]

cool. hope we can have more tutorials to develop on payload in-depth.

[@craignine5074]

This is great. Can you do a WP migration?

[@ashishanand4023]

When is payload 3 going from beta to stable? Waiting eagerly…

[@jojo_koomson]

please bring 3.0 already

[@Michael-Martell]

Can you make a simple tutorial of making an upload form for the site’s logo, so the end-user can upload and update this on their own?

[@muneebakram1670]

Is there any way to create Mega Menu inside this Global Menu option?

[@KratosCY]

I don’t get the whole concept of Payload as a CMS. Isn’t the whole point of a CMS is you don’t have to build a backend yourself? Contentful, Strapi, Sanity all have user interfaces to act as a backend without writing code so you can only focus on your front end. With payload, you have to do all the stuff yourself so what is the use case of it?

[@ja909]

Payload also provides a full backend

[@KratosCY]

@@ja909 Nextjs can also be a full backend?

[@ja909]

@@KratosCY my comment was to the statement that e.g. Strapi has interfaces to act as backend without writing code. Payload provides the same via the config.