A headless CMS provides content management (editing, publishing, media) through an API, without a built-in frontend. You build your own frontend with any framework (Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt) and fetch content from the API. Benefits: use any frontend technology, serve content to web, mobile, IoT, and other channels from one source. Popular options: Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, Directus, Payload CMS.
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Headless CMS Explained
A headless CMS separates content management from presentation.
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