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Headless websites: Astro and Sanity CMS, who edits what
A headless CMS is a content editing tool separated from the site that displays it: writers work in an interface like Sanity, and the site, built with Astro, fetches the content through an API at publication time. You keep the editing comfort of a WordPress with the speed and security of a static site.
This category covers choosing a headless CMS (Sanity, but also the alternatives when they fit better), the Astro + Sanity set-up with live preview and automatic rebuild, content modelling (what becomes a field, what stays free text), the real cost of a headless website over three years, and the question that comes before everything: do you need a CMS, or are files in a repository enough? The answer depends on who publishes and how often, and we give it with our own cases.
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Headless site with Astro and Sanity: who edits what, at what cost
A headless site separates content editing (Sanity) from publishing (Astro): the team writes in a tool, the site stays static and fast. When this set-up is justified, how it fits together, what it really costs, and why we unplugged our own.