Payload CMS released version 2.0 with support for Postgres, Live Preview, Lexical RTE, and More

Payload is a headless CMS and application framework released version 2.0 with interesting features.

Payload added support for PostgreSQL and uses Drizzle ORM to access it. Postgres is most widely used database and using Drizzle helps easier to support it.

Full database transaction support is now available. Payload now uses it seamlessly under the hood. This is important, because if you have a complex schema, one update operation might actually insert rows into two or more related tables. And if one fails, you don't want to have straggler rows left over. Transactions allow us to make sure this all works very gracefully.

Payload rich text editor has been built on Slate, it is great and it produces JSON instead of HTML. In version 2.0, Lexical editor is being added. This is a nice and cool editor with great features. You can now choose between Webpack or Vite as a bundler to work with Payload.