Headless CMS Break Down & Roundup

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. 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 contentacms.org Craft CMS Ghost Strapi Keystone Joomla (JK!) 44:33 - API (BYOUI) Hasura Prisma Firebase 47:37 - Git Based Netlify Forestry 50:30 - Other Google Sheets Sheety Airtable Tina CMS Not a CMS Markdown under the hood Notion Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1254772936935739393 Pixel & Tonic GraphCool GraphCMS Sapper ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: DEWALT Random Orbit Sander Wes: Shelf Brackets Shameless Plugs Scott: New course on Sapper - Sign up for the year and save 25%! Wes: Wes’ YouTube Channel Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.4	Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest headless CMS treats.
0:15.0	Today we've got a breakdown of both like why you might want to use a headless CMS.
0:20.0	What are things that you should take into account?
0:23.0	We get this question all the time like,
0:24.7	hey, Wes and Scott, what headless CMS should I use?
0:27.6	And the answer, unfortunately, is it depends.
0:31.1	There's so much that you need to think about in terms of data and hosting and
0:35.0	pricing and self hosted backups, images, things like that. So we're going to go through a whole bunch
0:41.2	of things to think about for a headless CMS as well as we're going to
0:44.6	rattle through a huge list of hosted, self-hosted and bring your own UI CMSs for
0:51.3	you.
0:52.3	We're going to get into it. Today we are sponsored and intentionally did not look at who was sponsoring today's episode. We booked this like six months ago. I told Scott before we added the sponsors I said whoever sponsoring today
1:04.1	because obviously we've have several headless CMS sponsors on this podcast I said
1:10.0	whoever sponsors today we're not gonna we can't change it we booked it six months
1:13.4	ago so one of the sponsors is a headless CMS sanity and the other sponsor is
1:18.2	fresh books which is cloud accounting we'll talk about both of them part way through the episode. We'll talk about sanity actually in this episode as well.
1:26.9	Hey, how you doing today, Scott? I'm doing good. I was I was considering because I had written the word round up in this episode title I was considering doing like a get along little doggies kind of thing like a you know
1:39.0	Wild Wild West thing Jim West Desperado you know? don't, I don't know what that is.
1:43.5	Round up, like a round up, isn't that where you like,
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