The Headless CMS

Posted Monday Feb 5, 2018 by Mike Lynch in

Last year we saw a rise in the Headless CMS – content management systems that are entirely API based. With so many devices and screens out there these days, tying your content management system to a particular platform doesn’t make a lot of sense. Even traditional frameworks like WordPress are moving towards a JSON REST API. And why not? The technology is there. The advent of Node.js and javascript frameworks like Express make building your own API a lot more feasible than it had traditionally been. Client side frameworks like Ember, React, Angular and Vue perfectly compliment API driven applications with their views-only approach. Together these new systems allow both front-end and back-end developers with backgrounds in various programming languages to access your data, all of which is stored and managed in one, singular place. Headless systems require less effort, they cost less, and are way more versatile. It’s very likely that using a headless CMS will become the new standard if it isn’t already.