June 3rd, 2020 × #CMS#Headless CMS#Web Development
Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup
This podcast episode provides a breakdown of headless CMS options, including hosted, self-hosted and API-based systems. Scott and Wes discuss key considerations when evaluating CMS choices and provide an overview of popular options in each category.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about headless content management systems — why you might want to use one, things you should take into account, and more!
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Show Notes
02:38 - What and why
- A headless CMS doesn't mean you have to use a static site generator
- A headless CMS has an API:
- REST
- GraphQL
- GROQ
- A headless CMS can pipe its content into:
- Static Site on build - like Gatsby
- An app on run/refresh
- An existing website - widget
- What makes a CMS? Do you need a UI?
- What is the threshold?
- Is a hotdog a sandwich?
- Things to think about when choosing an API
- Auth - Rules + roles + levels
- How easy is it to create new data types?
- Is it code or UI?
- Can my mom use it?
- Can you create one-off content types? (e.g. settings pages)
- Custom workflows
- dRafts, revisions, roll backs
- How are images handled? Do you need another service for that?
- Pre-determined UI
- Is custom UI possible?
- Two-way relationships?
- Tags?
- Data validation?
- UI + API?
- Hosting?
- Pricing?
- Content movability?
- Can you get your data out?
- Schemas
- Users
- Revisions
- CORS or realtime API?
- APIs
- Can you insert data via the API? (or just pull)
- Node API
- Importing data
24:37 - Hosted
- Sanity
- Prismic
- Contentful
- Dato CMS
- Storyblok
- 8Base
- Agility CMS
- Seems to be making a big corporate play
36:59 - Self-Hosted
- WordPress
- WordPress REST API
- GraphQL API
- WP GraphQL
- Advanced Custom Fields for custom UI
- Most things in WordPress are custom post types and taxonomies, so data from plugins can often be surfaced
- The theme UI from plugins is often lost
- Drupal
- Craft CMS
- Ghost
- Strapi
- Keystone
- Joomla (JK!)
44:33 - API (BYOUI)
47:37 - Git Based
50:30 - Other
- Google Sheets
- Airtable
- Tina CMS
- Not a CMS
- Markdown under the hood
- Notion
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