Learning to future-proof sites using headless CMS and different SSGs

Decoupled architectures are becoming increasingly popular in modern web development, allowing developers to choose the best tools for each job and creating a better experience for users. The Developer Experience team at Netlify explored various site generation tools and frameworks, building reference implementations of a simple restaurant website using different frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, SolidJS, and Eleventy. They chose Contentful as their headless CMS, which provided a rich content authoring experience, authenticated APIs, webhook support, and fundamental tools for modern web development. By adopting a decoupled architecture with pre-rendering the site during builds and using a Netlify Build Plugin to fetch and format content from the CMS, they achieved flexibility and portability in their projects. This approach can bring outstanding results and is valuable when building for the web due to its robustness principle and rule of least power.

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