Digital Natives specialist in headless development

Lightning-Fast Digital Platforms with a Headless Content Management System

Using a content management system in a headless way means that you use all the advantages of a CMS for your content management, but when building the front end of the website, you are not bound by the templates dictated by a specific content management system. Previously, choosing Drupal, CraftCMS, WordPress, or a Laravel CMS meant you also had to follow the front-end rules of that CMS. Did you develop a platform in Laravel? Then you had to work with the so-called Blade syntax. CraftCMS or Drupal? Then you could hardly use anything from your previous Blade project because you had to work with Twig. And WordPress? It had its own variant altogether.

By decoupling the CMS—a part of the backend—from the front end that your platform visitors see, you can always use the same front-end structure and be flexible in which backend you connect to it. Headless, therefore: the backend is separated from the presentation.

Breaking Free from Limitations

Since at Digital Natives we no longer have to work within the limitations of WordPress, CraftCMS, Drupal, or Laravel, we are also no longer dependent on the speed of those systems. The role of a CMS is minimized, and the frontend is as streamlined and independent as possible. This makes our latest digital platforms incredibly faster.

Digital Natives Innovates with Progressive Web Apps

Since our team of experienced front-end developers now has complete freedom in choosing front-end tools, Digital Natives currently creates most platforms as progressive web apps. These feel more like fluid apps than websites with different pages.

Faster Time-to-Market Thanks to Reusable Components

When you create a project in Laravel one time and in CraftCMS another time, you can reuse very few components between those projects. That perfect registration form with all the features you could think of? Useless in another system. But since we at Digital Natives always use the same front-end setup, that problem is a thing of the past. We are now very advanced in creating a complete front-end toolkit for our platforms for change. We prefer to use Vue.js as a JavaScript framework, a versatile framework that allows you to break your code into different components. We can use these components more often within the same project but also deploy them in new projects. This way, we develop faster and never have to reinvent the wheel.

Server-Side Rendered Apps with Nuxt

JavaScript is the programming language for modern web apps, but it was also a language long understood only by web browsers and not by servers. As a result, it was extra difficult for search engines like Google to 'read' JavaScript; after all, these search engines were used to HTML. With the advent of NodeJS and server-side rendering, there has been much improvement: servers can now convert a JavaScript application to HTML that any search engine can easily navigate. To make your web application as convertible as possible, however, you as a developer must adhere to strict rules. For our favorite JavaScript framework Vue.JS, the new add-on Nuxt helps enormously at Digital Natives. Nuxt offers us:

• Clearly documented code
• A clear structure for dividing your code into components
• Meta-tags for search engine optimization
• Smooth animations for page transitions
• A large community actively contributing to the framework
• Server-side rendering of our code to readable HTML, thanks to NodeJs

With Nuxt, Digital Natives can always deliver the fluid, lightning-fast headless platforms that visitors are accustomed to today. Without compromising your platform's SEO score.