georgephillips / headless-cms-demo

CloudCannon Headless CMS Demo

This repo illustrates one approach to building a git-based headless CMS using CloudCannon.

The files in the content are used as the site, and are passed through the CloudCannon build unchanged. As these files are JSON files, this means they can be accessed as if they were an API endpoint — for example the file at content/posts/hello_world.json could be loaded at https://<website_address>/posts/hello_world.json.

When editing in CloudCannon, these posts will open in the Visual Editor, using the preview page found at content/previewer/index.html. This file uses CloudCannon's live editing APIs to fetch the relevant data on load, and previews the content of the JSON file with some hypothetical styling to match the end consumer application.