You can configure netlify-cms to go through netlify for the git operations or not. Going through netlify servers let users edit without github credentials. On

You can configure netlify-cms to go through netlify for the git operations or not. Going through netlify servers let users edit without github credentials. On the blog where I have set this up, it goes direct and content editors aren't that happy with the experience Doing static site generation in the browser would definitely help with previews, at the cost of not working with off-the-shelf static site generators.