The latest articles on DEV Community by Moon Seeker (@moonseeker). https://dev.to/moonseeker https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F896870%2F0a8c8035-c250-4c15-810a-34d0bcae0657.png https://dev.to/moonseeker en Moon Seeker Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:14:50 +0000 https://dev.to/moonseeker/where-does-a-cms-fit-in-1705 https://dev.to/moonseeker/where-does-a-cms-fit-in-1705 <p>I am a backend engineer and after 9 years at a company I jumped ship to a French company that switched to 100% remote and was willing to pay me 45% more (that’s huge!).</p> <p>Long story short, after 6 interviews I accepted the position to join a team and build a Nodejs backend, being promised the opportunity to pitch in the GraphQL idea. </p> <p>Sounds great, right? Can you blame me for being super excited to start ?</p> <p>Well, 1 month in, the management cannot see any reason to build an in-house backend when we can just get a headless CMS and integrate stuff with it. “Out of the box…”</p> <p>My new job proves to be “integration” of features with the CMS and help develop the front-end.</p> <p>Has anyone experienced anything like this ? How did you handle it? </p> <p>Are CMSes the future of backends?<br> I’m confused and lost…</p> node discuss programming api