I didn’t know what headless CMS was for an embarrassingly long time, and then I needed to understand it. Here’s the most succinct explanation I could come up with that summarizes what it is.
Hope this helps another legacy nerd who wasn’t quite understanding what it all meant.
A headless CMS is a content management system that focuses solely on the back-end content management and storage, without dictating how the content is presented or displayed. Instead of serving content through traditional web pages, a headless CMS provides content via an API (usually RESTful or GraphQL), allowing it to be consumed by any front-end system, such as mobile apps, websites, or other digital platforms. This approach decouples content creation from content presentation, offering greater flexibility and enabling developers to use their preferred technologies and frameworks for the front end.
This means you can utilize another framework to display your data while allowing for the flexibility of having users still have access to the familiar backend like WordPress or Laravel they may be more comfortable utilizing.
