CMS & Headless

Your CMS determines how every future content change feels: whether editors work independently or a developer has to step in for every text update. A headless CMS separates content from presentation. You manage text, images, and data in a backend, and an API delivers them to your website, your app, or both.

This category brings together open source CMS and headless systems: API-first platforms like Payload CMS and Directus, Git-based editors like Decap CMS, plus generators like 11ty and Docusaurus for documentation and content sites. Which approach fits your project and what matters when comparing CMS options is covered in the guide below the tools. Each detail page weighs strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives.