PagieraBoth embed in your React app. One brings the backend too.
Teams comparing these two already want the editor in their own app. The question is how much of the surrounding system they want to write themselves.
Puck is an excellent embeddable drag-and-drop editor: you register components, it produces JSON, and storage, publishing and rendering are yours to build. Pagiera embeds the same way but ships the rest of the stack: PostgreSQL storage, drafts and revisions, a free-form responsive canvas, data binding, actions and motion, and a server-rendered runtime.
At a glance06
- 01Editor runs inside your appPagieraPuck
- 02Open-source licensePagieraPuck
- 03Content in your own databasePagieraPuck
- 04Free-form visual canvasPagieraPuck
- 05Storage, drafts and publishing includedPagieraPuck
- 06Pages bind to your own APIsPagieraPuck
Side by side05
| Pagiera | Puck | |
|---|---|---|
| What you install | Editor, backend handlers and rendering runtime. | An editor component and a renderer. |
| Storage | PostgreSQL, with drafts and revisions. | Yours to implement; Puck hands you JSON. |
| Editing model | Free-form canvas with native blocks and breakpoints. | Drag and drop of the components you register. |
| Behaviour and motion | Action graph and keyframe timeline built in. | Implemented inside your components. |
| License | MIT. | MIT. |
Choose Pagiera when…
- You want storage, drafts, revisions and publishing working on day one.
- Editors need a free-form canvas with breakpoints, not only a component list.
- Pages should bind to APIs and have interactions and motion without custom code.
Choose Puck when…
- You want the smallest possible editor and full control of everything around it.
- Every block must be one of your own React components.
- You already have a backend and only need the editing surface.
Rarely on the same page. Pick Puck if your components are the product; pick Pagiera if editors need a complete page builder.
Pagiera vs Puck
Questions
Pages are made of native Pagiera blocks rendered by its runtime, and they render inside your app. Shared structure is built from reusable Pagiera components and layouts.
It does more: backend routes, storage and runtime ship in the package. If you only need an editing surface, Puck is smaller.
Yes. Both embed in a React application; Pagiera's full integration targets the Next.js App Router.
Other comparisons05
- 01Hosted visual CMSPagiera vs Builder.ioThe same idea, opposite ownership.
- 02Visual builder for ReactPagiera vs PlasmicTwo visual builders for React, two places to edit.
- 03Headless CMSPagiera vs PayloadA CMS for content models, a builder for pages.
- 04Hosted site builderPagiera vs WebflowOne is a platform you join. The other is a package you install.
- 05Hosted site builderPagiera vs FramerA polished hosted builder, or a builder that lives in your code.
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