Headless CMS is the future 🙌

Use Ghost as a completely decoupled headless CMS and bring your own front-end written in Gatsby.js

Build an API driven static-site

There has been a lot of progress around static site generators, front end frameworks and API-centric infrastructure in recent years, which has generated some very cool products, like Gatsby. Since Ghost allows you to completely replace its default Handlebars theme layer in favour of a front-end framework, you can use Gatsby to build your site statically from the Ghost API.The headless-cms revolution.

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Using a static site generator usually involves storing Markdown files locally in the code repository. This would involve using a code editor to write content and a GIT workflow to publish - which works fine for small sites or developers. However, it's not ideal for professional publishers that need to scale. This is where a headless CMS comes in!

Instead, you can use Ghost for authoring, and then build out your front-end in Gatsby to pull content from the Ghost API. This provides several benefits for publishers:

• Developers can use their preferred stack

• Writers have their preferred editor & content management

• Performance is the maximum possible

• Security is the maximum possible

• Your site will be extremely scalable

Building sites in this way has become known as the JAMstack - (as in JavaScript, APIs, Markup). When you look at the bigger picture of the content mesh, it really starts to feel like an inevitable future for building websites.