The Future of Headless CMS

I've been building web apps for more than a decade. From an agency and consultancy perspective, developers can build truly amazing things on the web for any client need. The tools for building websites and apps have gotten better and better, the side-effect has been a mindblowing amount of complexity being introduced. You either end up with some no-code solution that is scoffed at by any serious engineer, or something built out that requires a senior engineer to maintain.

This ultimately is bad for the client and developers who have the resposibility of learning a dizzying amount of tooling just to make something that works. It shouldn't take a computer scientist to build a website.

To combat this we're excited to release a new package that simplifies your stack into a single repo with Next.js and Payload that can be run serverlessly. The beauty here is that there is very little devOps, generated typescript types unified across frontend and back, and the elimination of HTTP API calls between application and backend. https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload

My co-founder of Payload, James Mikrut is doing a livestream with Vercel's Steven Tey to shed some more light on what we're seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWkR-OPXKRU