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Hugo, Jekyll, etc. are Static Site Generators (SSGs) Content Management Systems are likes of WordPress, Ghost, Contentful and Strapi - they help you create and
by arek_nawo 3y ago
Hugo, Jekyll, etc. are Static Site Generators (SSGs)
Content Management Systems are likes of WordPress, Ghost, Contentful and Strapi - they help you create and manage content. From those, headless CMSs form a distinct group, which only provide a dashboard for you to manage and create content with, but no built-in frontend. Instead you have to use API and other means to create your own frontend based on the content from CMS.
- masukomi 3y agobut this DOESN'T "only provide a dashboard" or api. this SPECIFICALLY provides a GUI to manage it. your definition makes sense to me, but since this has a GUI it doesn't fall into that definition.
- arek_nawo 3y agoContent presentation layer is the "head" in this case. Any frontend or blog you might have. The management dashboard is a separate thing not really considered in this definition - every CMS has it. Maybe this article will explain things better: https://www.contentful.com/headless-cms/ https://www.contentful.com/headless-cms/