Last updated June 21, 2021

Explain Like I'm Five: Headless CMS

By Tinloof

Headless CMS can be tricky to understand for non-developers stakeholders. This short piece explains what a Headless CMS is and shows examples of how it's used.

This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.

In this post, we explain in 4 minutes what a headless CMS is and show you how it's used.

Sanity – build remarkable experiences at scale

Sanity Composable Content Cloud is the headless CMS that gives you (and your team) a content backend to drive websites and applications with modern tooling. It offers a real-time editing environment for content creators that’s easy to configure but designed to be customized with JavaScript and React when needed. With the hosted document store, you query content freely and easily integrate with any framework or data source to distribute and enrich content.

Sanity scales from weekend projects to enterprise needs and is used by companies like Puma, AT&T, Burger King, Tata, and Figma.

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