Why Headless Drupal

Making the site future proof. If in future there is a need to redesign a site, there won’t be any need of going through the hassle of redesigning the back-end and setting up services again. Since the logic of the website and the content management is handled by Drupal, redesigning a site visually would only require tinkering with the front-end.

It completely frees up the front-end team to work on the way the site looks, in-turn freeing up the back-end team to handle the site’s backend architecture.

It helps to speed up the site. JavaScript frameworks like React.js are known for their speed and ease of use. Using such framework to deliver content to the user eliminate a lot of the limitations of Drupal’s own front-end architecture. Also, since these frameworks only have to deliver API calls from Drupal to HTML; the entire site gets faster since they need to adhere to complex logics set by Drupal and can only focus on content delivery itself.

The websites that use headless Drupal are much more responsive than ones using Drupal’s native front-end. It has become almost a necessity for a site to be responsive due to the immense rise of mobile devices. Thanks to headless Drupal, this is well addressed.

Conclusion:
Headless Drupal (headless websites, for that matter) are all the rage now whenever the future of the web is discussed. Where CMSs aimed to simplify management of a website’s content, this concept takes it a step further by aiming to simplify the front-end as well. Headless Drupal enables creating sites that are much faster, responsive and capable of delivering rich user experience.