How to Utilize SharePoint Online as a Headless CMS

What is a headless CMS? It is a Content Management System where the content repository (the body) is separated from the presentation layer (the head). The advantage is that your content is just content, which ideally is well structured, and it can be presented in any number of ways. The same content can be used for your traditional public website, in your Intranet (staff portal), in emails, social feeds, mobile apps, or presentation devices (like TVs in public or event spaces). On the presentation side, developers are free to make whatever technology choices they want to, to optimize the user experience. Later changes to those technology stacks do not affect the content, since it is decoupled from that.

We'll be using our Extranet Publisher product to illustrate how we achieve this in a SharePoint Online environment, using our own new Extranet User Manager website as an example.

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