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Discussion on: Which Headless CMS do you use for your blog and do you recommend it or not

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Naive question, but what's wrong with just GitHub + Visual Studio Code with live preview of your markdown files?

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Alex Quasar • Edited

The biggest issue with that is content management. This might be okay if you are just one person on a personal blog, but if you are working with marketing people or content writer you probably do not want them in messing with the code inside VS Code Editor.

The other reason is you want to make things consistent as possible, but still have that flexibility to make certain customizations. With a content management system, you can ensure that each article has a title, author, image, subtitle, etc and looks a "certain way"

A good content management system and editor, should make the writing process streamlined (ie. easily check for spelling mistakes and format your articles easily and nicely, detached from the code) and create some architecture and consistency with your content.

Hope that makes sense. That is my interpretation at least.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Yup that makes sense, thanks!