Building Static Websites with Content from a Headless DNN
Brian Dukes
CTO, Engage
What is Headless?
Why HeadLess?
- Multi-channel publishing
- Unconstrained display
- Focused development
Project Overview
- Hundreds (ultimately thousands) of similar websites
- Custom modules to manage content within DNN
- Generate static HTML based on a site's content
- Host HTML on AWS (CloudFront CDN in front of S3)
Static Websites?
Benefits
- Fast
- Secure
- Scalable
- Cheap
Drawbacks
- Dynamic only via JavaScript and APIs
- Personalization
- A/B testing
- Analytics and logging
DNN Integration
Files
Pages
- URLs
- Settings
- Metadata
- Theme
Site Settings
Custom Modules
- Manage Site Settings
- Create Content
- Assign Content
- DNN Content Items
- Preview and Publish
Static Site Generation
Wyam
- Razor
- Authoring
- Dependency management
- Memory Leak
- Razor
- Authoring
- Dependency management
- Memory Leak
Alternatives
Use DNN for Display
3rd Party Content Management
- 2sxc
- OpenContent
- Mandeeps
Custom Modules
Headless CMS (JAMstack)
- Contentful
- Kentico Kontent
- Strapi
- Netlify CMS