Technical
Headless
Also known as: decoupled, API-first
Understanding the term
The benefits are speed and freedom over presentation: the public website can be built to measure, without the CMS’s display constraints.
The cost is complexity. There are two systems to maintain instead of one, and previewing content before publication takes extra work. It makes sense beyond a certain scale, but rarely for a business website.
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