The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. Over the years, there have been many different approaches and evolutions of static and Jamstack CMSs. In this article, Mike Neumegen will take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade.
Read more…
In this article, Alba Silvente will take a look at when it makes sense to migrate from a monolithic project to a headless setup and the benefits that come with it. In addition to a step-by-step guide on how to migrate WordPress to Storyblok Headless CMS, the problems that will arise during the process and how to deal with them.
Read more…
There is an array of Headless CMSes out there. In this article, we delve into headless CMS features to satisfy your content editors, marketers and yourself as a developer. For the experience headless practitioner, this could be a checklist to see what’s new out there. For those starting out on their headless journey, this could be a guide on what to look for.
Read more…
With the explosion in popularity of the Jamstack has come the proliferation of new options for managing your content. Headless has become quite the hot topic in development circles of late, but where do you start if you are embarking on a new project and haven’t yet decided where to store and organize your content? In this article, David Eglin will give you a little bit of a primer on the CMS landscape, as well as some questions to ask to aid you in making a decision.
Read more…
One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. We have a wealth of tools to help developers build things fast so results are expected quickly. Going headless lets your team take full control of the user experience instead of wrestling with a large tool that doesn’t do quite what you wanted. In this article, Aaron Hans will explore what headless means, use cases for it, and how to decide if headless is a good fit for you.
Read more…
If this is your first time hearing of Webiny, it’s an open-source framework for building serverless applications which provide users with tools and ready-made applications. In the world of serverless applications, Webiny is becoming a popular way to adopt the serverless approach of building applications by providing handy tools that developers can build their apps upon. In this article, we will look into what Webiny is and try out the headless CMS as a data source for a Gatsby blog application.
Read more…
MDX gives you the minimalist ergonomics of Markdown with the flexibility of custom components. By combining MDX with Sanity and Next, you can build robust, team-friendly content editing experiences while keeping the pleasant and efficient developer experience of building Jamstack sites with React.
Read more…
If you’re a designer or developer with intermediate knowledge of HTML and JavaScript, and know your way around GitHub and the command line, this tutorial is for you. Today, Scott Dawson is going to walk step-by-step through converting a WordPress site into a static site generated from Markdown.
Read more…
We’re asking what it looks like to dogfood the Jamstack at Netlify. Can you deploy an entire app to a CDN? Drew McLellan talks to Netlify Staff Engineer Leslie Cohn-Wein to find out.
Read more…
In modern development, there are so many great tools for developing websites, but often they are more than what’s necessary for a given project. Because these tools are built for diverse use cases, they have to have a lot of features. Those features make them powerful. They also make them quite complex and opaque for new developers. In this article, Bryan Robinson will explore how to take a humble HTML page and make its content editable in a CMS with no frameworks and no client-side JavaScript.
Read more…
