What is CMS & how it's use?

Blog What is CMS?

CMS = 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 fronted(presentation layer) & the backend( content database & edit interface) everything are directly connected together.

A traditional CMS is best seen in a blogging platform like wordpress. 

What is Headless CMS?

A headless CMS, is a back-end-only content management system

A headless CMS act as content repository,  Where there are content of our website , apps, etc.

From a headless CMS you can access content via a RESTful API or GraphQL API to display an any device.

Advantage

As it gives us data via API, we can use it where ever we want, with any technologies.

You can use it on any platform, for example:

*iOS apps 

*Android apps 

*website, etc.

Headless CMS

The main advantage of headless CMS is :

You can publish a pieces of content, to multiple frontends and to multiple platform at once.

And also you get much more freedom and flexibility on both side fronted and backend.

Top 8 Popular Headless CMS :

1) strapi.io

2) contentful.com

3) sanity.io

4) agilitycms.com

5) netlifycms.org

6) ghost.org

7) directus.io

8) getcockpit.com