Next.js In Review: An Exceptional Experience for Developers Building on a Headless CMS
Facebook's React UI framework, introduced in 2013, has been a trailblazer in the frontend world since its introduction. Developing dynamic websites with rich functionality was hard back then, and many devs (and upper management) considered Java
UI Development with Flutter: First Impressions
Organizations across every industry are laying plans to provide a mobile app to access their services. And with nearly 90% of mobile internet time spent in apps, it’s not hard to see why. While the web dev world has spent its time solving probl
RedwoodJS: A Rails-Inspired Experience for Full-Stack Javascript
When Jordan Walke first released React.js in 2013, it was a revolutionary moment for many frontend developers. Using a virtual DOM and one-way data flow, he greatly simplified reasoning about web applications compared to other approaches at the time.
CMS for SPAs Tutorial: Using Vue and GraphQL with Crafter CMS
In this tutorial you will learn to integrate existing Vue applications using Graph QL and Crafter CMS to supply content
CMS for SPAs Tutorial: Using React and Node JS with Crafter CMS
The most traditional, full-featured CMS platforms are not designed to handle headless content and most headless CMS platforms aren’t full-featured and have only basic authoring support. Crafter CMS is both full-featured and fully supports headless CMS capabilities. That’s pretty unique. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a content-rich, ReactJS-based Single Page Application (SPA) with in-context editing and other full-featured authoring capabilities.
Headless CMS: Enable In-Context Preview and Editing in an External Application
Do you have an existing application that has content in it that you want to manage but you don’t want to completely rebuild in a CMS? This use case is more common than you can imagine. Developers start building an application only much later to find it would benefit from CMS authoring capabilities like in-context editing and preview. What’s the solution? Rebuild the application? No. Crafter CMS is a headless CMS that’s front-end agnostic. It can plug into any application. Let’s look at a very simple example. Just recently I posted a blog that used Node JS an external application that called Crafter CMS headless CMS capabilities for content via APIs.
Building CMS Backed Augmented Reality Apps with Crafter CMS
From SnapChat to Pokemon Go to the helmets used by F-35 fighter pilots, Augmented Reality (AR) applications are gaining a ton of traction. Unlike virtual reality which attempts to completely replace actual reality with an alternative universe an
Responsive vs Adaptive Web Design: Better Together
Responsive web design (RWD), the ability for your web application to “respond” to the size of the view port (traditional screen size vs mobile screen size) is common place and practice today. Responsive design leverages client side,&n
Building Angular2 Single Page Applications with Crafter CMS
Single Page Applications (SPA) are quickly becoming the industry standard for HTML5 based applications and responsive websites because they tend to be more user friendly, feel faster and are more responsive. As with most applications today, SPA’s fre