CategoryHeadless

September 24, 2021 — Developing with Next.js is amazing, but there are definitely some challenges. The developer experience with Next.js is something you just need to experience. We made the switch from a more traditional integrated e-commerce platform to a headless platform with Next.js. Here are the most important lessons learned while rebuilding a large e-commerce site with Next.js. Read more…

August 20, 2021 — 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…

July 30, 2021 — Having an e-commerce store is crucial for any store owner as more and more customers are turning to online shopping. In this article, Zara Cooper will cover how to build an e-commerce store using Angular 11. You shall use Commerce Layer as our headless e-commerce API. Although there may be tonnes of ways to process payments, she’ll demonstrate how to use just one, Paypal. Read more…

July 6, 2021 — 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…

April 6, 2021 — 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…

March 23, 2021 — 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…

March 11, 2021 — All of us use web scraping in our everyday lives. It merely describes the process of extracting information from a website. For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, Andreas Altheimer will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites based on Node.js and Puppeteer. Read more…

March 9, 2021 — 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…

February 11, 2021 — Headless CMS is a powerful and easy way to manage content and access API. Built on React, Sanity.io is a seamless tool for flexible content management. It can be used to build simple to complex applications from the ground up. In this article, Ifeanyi Dike explains how to build a simple listing app with Sanity.io and React. The global states will be managed with Redux and the application will be styled with styled-components. Read more…

December 7, 2020 — 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…