WEBSITE BUILDING
What is a Headless Website?
Discover what is a headless website, “Headless” website architecture and the 3 notion of a “headless” website refers to a situation.
Headless Website
A headless website is a marketing term for separating or “decoupling” the presentation layer of your website that your customers see from the underlying backend engines that handle your data.
To understand how having a headless site can benefit your business, we must first understand the traditional way ecommerce sites were built when they were first released back in the early 2000’s.
Headless Website Architecture
The “headless” website architecture is gaining traction and popularity. Nearly every developer I’ve spoken to in the past six months is excited about the potential, and with good reason — this model allows breakthrough user-experiences and innovation.
There’s nothing supernatural or haunted about the idea of a headless website, so no need to worry about adding “Demon Hunting for Dummies” to your list of books to purchase. The concept is hardly new and is more broadly known as running a decoupled architecture.
The notion of a “headless” website refers to a situation where:
1) There is a traditional database-driven CMS which editors use to maintain the content for the site, usually via the same old admin interface as always.
2) The content for the site is accessible via a web-service API, usually in a RESTful manner and in a mashup-friendly format such as JSON.
3) The end-user experience is delivered by a JavaScript application rendering the output of this API into HTML, frequently making use of a modern application framework.
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