Introduction to Payload — The open-source Next.js backend

Write a Payload Config and instantly get:
— A full Admin Panel using React server / client components, matching the shape of your data and completely extensible with your own React components
— Automatic database schema, including direct DB access and ownership, with migrations, transactions, proper indexing, and more
— Authentication which can be used in your own apps
— A deeply customizable access control pattern
— File storage and image management tools like cropping / focal point selection
— Live preview - see your frontend render content changes in realtime as you update

And a lot more.

00:00 Beginning
00:46 Payload Use Cases
01:49 Installing Payload Locally
02:44 Payload Config
03:25 Payload Docs
03:47 Adding a Collection
05:02 Bidirectional Relationships (joinField)
05:47 Media Collection & Features
06:38 RichText Field and Extensibility
08:08 Adding a Custom React Component
08:48 Access Control
09:32 Payload Hooks — Inject Any Functionality

[nima.zabihi]

The truth is, we all love having reliable and scalable tools with plenty of features, but most of them eventually lead you down a rabbit hole of subscriptions. Payload, however, feels like a miracle. I hope this team, and the entire community, are blessed for their genuine passion and dedication.

[saidakhrarov]

Always a good day when a new Payload vid drops

[mrbjjackson]

Looking forward to taking Payload for a spin. Thanks very much for making it. Tbh Im not quite sure why more influencers on Youtube arent all over this project. From what i can see it literally feels like the missing piece of the whole puzzle.

[eric-jt]

That crop and hot spot on the image was pretty sweet

[medbenbrahim]

That's a great contributions to OSS
Great work Payload Team

[carlofpvdiary]

Awesome CMS, finally trully opensource cms that is not a Wordpress! Thank you!.
Please make a tutorial how to use it with Astro!
and if there a way to make with a live edit feature working, would be unreal.

[Sairam_Kagitha]

Please make a tutorial on how to customize payload dashboard

[MichaelParkadze]

Can't wait to see a video about multi tenant implementation

[codenameunknown]

Let's be honest guys: Payload is the GOAT.

[roberth]

At first I was thinking, why wouldn't I just use a database and an ORM... but turns out you do some pretty cool stuff on top. Awesome stuff. Since alot of sites would add payload to handle certain functions of the site, a video on how Payload can live in the (blog) route of nextjs, utilizing the Drizzle extension would be cool.

[andrisuvorov]

Amazing features, please keep up these video tutorials and examples 🔥

[AnthonyCandaele]

Thanks for this introduction to Payload. I'm looking forward to that in-depth view of the website template. Maybe you could make a follow-along video. That's the best way to learn.

[ukasztarnowski]

Hi Payload Team, great job, again! I love the videos you share and I really enjoy working with this CMS, even though I am a beginner with coding; the channel 'All About Payload' by 10x Media guys is so helpful! There is just one thing I'd like to be better explained > Internationalisation for the 3.0 version. I mean, it's one of the most demanded features, and unfortunately the docs are not very detailed on this, moreover when you add 'localized: true' to fields the content disappears so it is tricky to implement it later on for the project. I'm looking forward to some tutorial on that as being new to coding I struggle :D cheers

[Lixqa]

First time seeing this and it really is something i wanna try in future 👍

[ssygon]

4:00 Question: In the collections structure, what if I remove the title or description fields, while there's data already in db. Can I just add the title or description fields back, and the data is still there? Or does deleting the fields also automatically remove those field's data in db too?

[Pistaschios]

Amazing looks almost like the thing I ever wanted to make but was too lazy/unexperimented. An admin dashboard running along next, that can be serverless, and have finally a simple typesafe scalable customisable Cms. Thank you for doing this open source !
Can't wait to test this out, see how to deploy it, how db integration works, etc. Gonna read the doc right now haha I'm hyped...
Too bad I dropped nextjs for Astro but if it can ever be headless I will start using rn.

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[OneBrighDay]

Payload looks super promising. I’m looking forward to doing a long tutorial or course on Payload so I can really get to know it.

[jhersonmedina]

I think it could be nice to add an updated tutorial on how to use multi-tenancy in Payload comparing it with the Multisite feature from Wordpress. God-like project you're building, hi from Colombia

[jseng]

nice! cant wait for the ecommerce template to be available..

[snailedlt]

Great video as always James!
Would be really neat if you open sourced the code for these walkthrough videos.