A headless CMS is often associated with dashboards, APIs, and complex infrastructure.
In reality, headless simply means that content is separated from presentation — nothing more.
In this project, Markdown files act as the content layer, while Next.js handles rendering, routing, and static generation.
Posts live outside the UI, are parsed at build time, and can be replaced later without touching the frontend.
This approach has several advantages.
Content is version-controlled, easy to review, portable, and free from vendor lock-in. Git becomes the CMS, and the build step becomes the delivery mechanism.
The architecture is intentionally CMS-agnostic.
Today, content is read from the filesystem. Tomorrow, the same data layer could fetch from an external API, a database, or a hosted CMS — without changing the UI, routing, or design system.
A Markdown-based headless CMS won’t fit every team.
But for developer-focused blogs and documentation-heavy sites, it offers clarity, control, and long-term stability with almost no overhead.
Sometimes the best architecture isn’t the most powerful one — it’s the one that stays out of the way.