What is Umbraco Headless and why does it matter to you?
Charles Afford
Director
Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Less than a minutes read
Headless CMS
Quickly manage content for multiple devices and platforms.
Great support and developer community.
Easily deliver content on any device.
Fast-loading websites and applications.
Easy integration with other platforms.
Multi-language support.
Easy management of user roles and authorisations.
Built-in CDN.
Free Umbraco Forms.
Backend based on familiar Umbraco user experience.
Managed REST APIs
Umbraco Heartcore is the same Umbraco you know and love but allow its data to be used on any device with an internet connection. There is a great article on the pros and cons of Heartcore here Umbraco Headless In brief, you can use your Umbraco data on any device. For example if you have multiple different points of sale devices, you could keep your product and customer information structured with Umbraco and use Headless to allow the data to be served to your various devices
Umbraco comes in two parts, the Umbraco part and the website part. What you need for point of sales devices, smart watches is just the website part and the data from the Umbraco part. Heartcore provides this.
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