Squidex

Is Squidex actively maintained?

Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 55 commits, of which 7 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 2 commits a month.

Activity is cooling: commits are down 67% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.

The most recent tagged release, 7.23.0, is about 6 months old.

Squidex ranks #37 of 48 tracked content management systems (cms) projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.

What Squidex actually does

Squidex is a headless content management system that relies on MongoDB, command query responsibility segregation, and event sourcing. It provides a backend interface to store and manage structured content, which you can then distribute to various front-end applications via an API. The platform is written in .NET and distributed under an MIT licence.

Best fit: It suits teams that are already invested in the .NET ecosystem and require a structured content repository with audit trails powered by event sourcing.

Worth knowing: The moderate development activity and dependency on both MongoDB and event-sourcing architectures mean you should anticipate a steeper operational and debugging curve than with traditional database-backed CMS options.

Deployment notes

You will typically need to provision a separate MongoDB instance, configure persistent storage for your data, and place the application behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.

Links

• Official website
• Source code
• Live demo