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Can someone provide a pros/cons of Contentful? I don't get what's so hard about building an API around content. The frontend I get, but the backend seems relati
by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Can someone provide a pros/cons of Contentful? I don't get what's so hard about building an API around content. The frontend I get, but the backend seems relatively simple, and the complexities are usually brand-specific
- atonse 9y agoIt's not the API. It's that too many applications have Admin UI boilerplate interfaces for managing a lot of their content. And too much time is wasted in building those UIs. I know, I've done it. The way I see this is, it allows you to completely skip building the content management portion of Admin UIs, and present you with pure content as data, so you have full flexibility over how your website layout looks.
- Sujan 9y agoContentful (and similar services) also _can_ invest lots of time to get a good looking and super usable admin interface that can tackle difficult problems well. Examples: Sorting of ordered many to many relations, WYSIWYG or markdown editors, workflows, versioning, concurrent editing of items - all the stuff that you don't need for an MVP but if you have hundreds of editors and non dev people working on the actual content.