What is Headless CMS? — infovistar.com

What is CMS?

A CMS stands for Content Management System. A CMS is a software where users can create, manage, modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.

What is Traditional CMS?

A Traditional CMS is where the frontend (presentation layer) and the backend (content database and edit interface) are directly connected. A traditional CMS is best seen in a blogging platform like WordPress.

What is Headless CMS?

A Headless CMS is a backed-end-only content management system. A Headless CMS acts as a content repository, where there is our website, apps, etc. You can access content via a RESTful API or GraphQL API to display on any device from a headless CMS.

Advantages

As it gives us data via API, we can use it wherever we want, with any technology.

You can use it on any platform for example:

The main advantage of Headless CMS is:

• You can publish a piece of content, to multiple frontends and multiple platforms at once.
• And also you get much more freedom and flexibility on both sides frontend and backend.

Originally published at https://infovistar.com on August 24, 2021.