To add, decoupling the frontend and backend can also be useful for client work. Clients love CMSs like WordPress because it's easy for them to mess with things, but sometimes they mess with things that they shouldn't. By decoupling things, they have the ability to make changes to content, but not to the frontend unless they know what they're doing.
Exactly this.
To add, decoupling the frontend and backend can also be useful for client work. Clients love CMSs like WordPress because it's easy for them to mess with things, but sometimes they mess with things that they shouldn't. By decoupling things, they have the ability to make changes to content, but not to the frontend unless they know what they're doing.
Here's a good read that goes into why people would use a static frontend on a WordPress backend:
northstack.com/static-wordpress-fr...