Earlier this year, we released the first iteration of self-hosted TinaCMS. The initial demo relied on Tina Cloud for authorization and used MongoDB for the data layer. That was the first step in freeing TinaCMS users from vendor lock-in, but in the meantime we've been hard at work on improving self-hosted. Today we are excited to announce the next iteration of our self-hosted Tina demo, leveraging Vercel KV for the data layer and NextAuth.js. It is now possible for a developer to setup a fully functioning Next.js site running TinaCMS relying on just GitHub and Vercel provided services.

Internally Tina uses LevelDB as an abstraction over the

Last Edited: June 30, 2023