Headless content management systems have become a common component of digital platforms. Contentful is still our default choice in this space, but new entrants like Strapi have impressed us too. We particularly like Contentful's API-first approach and implementation of CMS as code. It supports powerful content modeling primitives as code and content model evolution scripts, which allow it to be treated like other data store schemas and enable evolutionary database design practices to be applied to CMS development. Recently, Contentful has released an app framework to write apps that make it easier to adapt Contentful to individual business processes and to integrate with other services. Apps can be built by and for a specific organization but a marketplace for apps is emerging, too.
Headless content management systems (CMSes) are becoming a common component of digital platforms. Contentful is a modern headless CMS that our teams have successfully integrated into their development workflows. We particularly like its API-first approach and implementation of CMS as code. It supports powerful content modeling primitives as code and content model evolution scripts, which allow it to be treated like other data store schemas and enable evolutionary database design practices to be applied to CMS development. Its robustness and a stream of new features, including a sandbox environment, have impressed our teams further and made Contentful our default choice in this space.
Headless content management systems (CMSes) are becoming a common component of digital platforms. Contentful is a modern headless CMS that our teams have successfully integrated into their development workflows. We particularly like its API-first approach and implementing CMS as code. It supports powerful content modeling primitives as code and content model evolution scripts, which allow treating it as other data store schemas and applying evolutionary database design practices to CMS development. Other notable features that we've liked include inclusion of two CDNs to deliver media assets and JSON documents, good support for localization and the ability—albeit with some effort—to integrate with Auth0.
Headless Content Management Systems (CMSes) are becoming a common component of digital platforms. Contentful is a modern headless CMS that our teams have successfully integrated into their development workflows. We particularly like its API-first approach and implementing CMS as Code. It supports powerful content modelling primitives as code and content model evolution scripts, which allow treating it as other data store schemas and applying evolutionary database design practices to CMS development. Other notable features that we’ve liked include inclusion of two CDNs by default to deliver media assets and JSON documents, good support for localization, and the ability — albeit with some effort — to integrate with Auth0.
