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Package Health Score

80 / 100

security
Security review needed
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Healthy
community
Sustainable

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Security

Security review needed

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
2.17.0	\|	05/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.16.1	\|	05/2024	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.15.8	\|	10/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.20.1	\|	07/2022		0 C 1 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.19.2	\|	07/2022		0 C 1 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Popular

Weekly Downloads (46,090)

GitHub Stars: 20K
Forks: 1.18K
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package payload receives a total of 46,090 downloads a week. As such, we scored payload popularity level to be Popular.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package payload, we found that it has been starred 20,002 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Sustainable

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 0
Funding: No

This project has seen only 10 or less contributors.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 208
Open PR: 136
Last Release: 19 hours ago
Last Commit: 15 hours ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of payload based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that payload demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=14

Age: 9 years
Dependencies: 88 Direct
Versions: 583
Install Size: 10.3 MB
Dist-tags: 3
# of Files: 3.02K
Maintainers: 2
TS Typings: Yes

payload has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

Readme

Payload headless CMS Admin panel built with React

Explore the Docs · Community Help · Try Live Demo · Roadmap · View G2 Reviews

> [!IMPORTANT] > 🎉 Payload 2.0 is now available! Read more in the announcement post.

Benefits over a regular CMS

Don’t hit some third-party SaaS API, hit your own API
Use your own database and own your data
It's just Express - do what you want outside of Payload
No need to learn how Payload works - if you know JS, you know Payload
No vendor lock-in
Avoid microservices hell - get everything (even auth) in one place
Never touch ancient WP code again
Build faster, never hit a roadblock
Both admin and backend are 100% extensible

☁️ Deploy instantly with Payload Cloud.

Create a cloud account, connect your GitHub, and deploy in minutes.

🚀 Get started by self-hosting completely free, forever.

Before beginning to work with Payload, make sure you have all of the required software.

npx create-payload-app@latest

Alternatively, it only takes about five minutes to create an app from scratch.

🖱️ One-click templates

Jumpstart your next project by starting with a pre-made template. These are production-ready, end-to-end solutions designed to get you to market as fast as possible.

🛒 E-Commerce

Eliminate the need to combine Shopify and a CMS, and instead do it all with Payload + Stripe. Comes with a beautiful, fully functional front-end complete with shopping cart, checkout, orders, and much more.

🌐 Website

Build any kind of website, blog, or portfolio from small to enterprise. Comes with a beautiful, fully functional front-end complete with posts, projects, comments, and much more.

We're constantly adding more templates to our Templates Directory. If you maintain your own template, consider adding the payload-template topic to your GitHub repository for others to find.

✨ Features

Completely free and open-source
GraphQL, REST, and Local APIs
Easily customizable ReactJS Admin
Fully self-hosted
Extensible Authentication
Local file storage & upload
Version History and Drafts
Field-based Localization
Block-based Layout Builder
Extensible SlateJS rich text editor
Array field type
Field conditional logic
Extremely granular Access Control
Document and field-level hooks for every action Payload provides
Built with Typescript & very Typescript-friendly
Intensely fast API
Highly secure thanks to HTTP-only cookies, CSRF protection, and more

Request Feature

🗒️ Documentation

Check out the Payload website to find in-depth documentation for everything that Payload offers.

Migrating from v1 to v2? Check out the 2.0 Release Notes on how to do it.

🙋 Contributing

If you want to add contributions to this repository, please follow the instructions in contributing.md.

📚 Examples

The Examples Directory is a great resource for learning how to setup Payload in a variety of different ways, but you can also find great examples in our blog and throughout our social media.

🔌 Plugins

Payload is highly extensible and allows you to install or distribute plugins that add or remove functionality. There are both officially-supported and community-supported plugins available. If you maintain your own plugin, consider adding the payload-plugin topic to your GitHub repository for others to find.

🚨 Need help?

There are lots of good conversations and resources in our Github Discussions board and our Discord Server. If you're struggling with something, chances are, someone's already solved what you're up against. 👇

⭐ Like what we're doing? Give us a star

👏 Thanks to all our contributors

payload dependencies

@date-io/date-fns @dnd-kit/core @dnd-kit/sortable @faceless-ui/modal @faceless-ui/scroll-info @faceless-ui/window-info @monaco-editor/react @swc/core @swc/register body-parser body-scroll-lock bson-objectid compression conf connect-history-api-fallback console-table-printer dataloader date-fns deep-equal deepmerge dotenv express express-fileupload express-rate-limit file-type find-up flatley fs-extra get-tsconfig graphql graphql-http graphql-playground-middleware-express graphql-query-complexity graphql-scalars graphql-type-json html-webpack-plugin http-status i18next i18next-browser-languagedetector i18next-http-middleware is-hotkey is-plain-object isomorphic-fetch joi json-schema-to-typescript jsonwebtoken jwt-decode md5 method-override minimist mkdirp monaco-editor nodemailer object-to-formdata passport passport-anonymous passport-headerapikey passport-jwt passport-local pino pino-pretty pluralize probe-image-size process qs qs-middleware react react-animate-height react-datepicker react-diff-viewer-continued react-dom react-helmet react-i18next react-image-crop react-router-dom react-router-navigation-prompt react-select react-toastify sanitize-filename sass scheduler scmp sharp swc-loader terser-webpack-plugin ts-essentials use-context-selector uuid

payload development dependencies

@release-it/conventional-changelog @types/asap @types/body-parser @types/body-scroll-lock @types/compression @types/express @types/express-fileupload @types/express-rate-limit @types/express-serve-static-core @types/hapi__joi @types/ignore-styles @types/is-hotkey @types/isomorphic-fetch @types/joi @types/json-schema @types/jsonwebtoken @types/method-override @types/mime @types/mini-css-extract-plugin @types/minimist @types/mkdirp @types/node-fetch @types/nodemailer @types/passport @types/passport-anonymous @types/passport-jwt @types/passport-local @types/pluralize @types/prismjs @types/probe-image-size @types/qs @types/qs-middleware @types/react @types/react-datepicker @types/react-dom @types/react-helmet @types/react-router-dom @types/sharp @types/uuid confusing-browser-globals copyfiles cross-env css-loader css-minimizer-webpack-plugin file-loader form-data get-port mini-css-extract-plugin node-fetch nodemon object.assign object.entries passport-strategy postcss-loader postcss-preset-env release-it rimraf sass-loader serve-static swc-loader terser terser-webpack-plugin url-loader vite webpack @payloadcms/eslint-config

FAQs

What is payload?

Node, React and MongoDB Headless CMS and Application Framework. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for payload, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is payload popular?

The npm package payload receives a total of 46,090 weekly downloads. As such, payload popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is payload well maintained?

We found that payload demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 0 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is payload safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of payload, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 16 May-2024, at 07:32 (UTC).

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