Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you’re wondering How does a Headless CMS work, in this video I’ll explain it and I’ll show you by putting together a working example in just 10 minutes.
00:00 - Introduction & Overview
00:15 - Chapter 1 - What is a Headless CMS
00:45 - Chapter 2 - What we will Build - Headless CMS Demo Example
01:00 - Chapter 3 - Frontend for Headless CMS on Next JS
01:37 - Chapter 4 - Backend Headless CMS on Wix Studio
02:04 - Chapter 5 - Add Content to Headless CMS
02:32 - Chapter 6 - Install & Setup Headless NPM Package (OAuth)
03:20 - Chapter 7 - Add Headless CMS Content to Next JS (API)
03:58 - Chapter 8 - Fetch Data, Queries & Updates with Headless CMS
05:57 - Chapter 9 - Styling the Design of the Headless CMS site
06:48 - Chapter 10 - Publishing Headless CMS Site
07:59 - Summary and Key Takeaways
⛌ Try Wix Studio:
wix.com/studio/?utm_campaign=pa_influencers_community_adrian^social&experiment_id=^youtube_channel
🏴 Additional Headless CMS Resources!
wix.com/studio/blog/headless-cms
wix.com/studio/developers/headless
wix.com/studio/developers/headless/templates
dev.wix.com/docs/go-headless
Firstly, A Headless CMS is really just made up of just two things. The CMS. This is your content management system, and often found in the backend.
It’s like a repository or database of your content that is interconnected.
Secondly, and headless part. Headless essentially means you can access this data without any sort overhead, often through an API. This allow you to build on your own ecosystem, be that on react, php or even python. The point of a CMS which is Headless is to give developers the freedom to manage their data without having it locked in to a specific frontend structure. It also provides the freedom to access that content via multiple apps or systems.
With that said, lets build a basic Headless site. For this part I’m going to create this small react app which will be hosted on the Next JS platform.
Content for this site being pulled via from a backend CMS through an API layer and then passed to my front end client. While that sound complicated, it really is only around 5-10 lines of code. For this part of the video we are going to do the following
Headless CMS are easy to setup and use use for a number of things, such as:
- Headless Bookings
- Headless Blogs or Articles
- Headless eCommerce
- Headless Session Management
- Headless Events
- Headless Pricing Plans
There are some quick starter easy templates you can access in the link in the description if you want to learn more about them, as well as some great documentation online which I’ll link in the description below.
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If you’re wondering How does a Headless CMS work, in this video I’ll explain it and I’ll show you by putting together a working example in just 10 minutes.
00:00 - Introduction & Overview
00:15 - Chapter 1 - What is a Headless CMS
00:45 - Chapter 2 - What we will Build - Headless CMS Demo Example
01:00 - Chapter 3 - Frontend for Headless CMS on Next JS
01:37 - Chapter 4 - Backend Headless CMS on Wix Studio
02:04 - Chapter 5 - Add Content to Headless CMS
02:32 - Chapter 6 - Install & Setup Headless NPM Package (OAuth)
03:20 - Chapter 7 - Add Headless CMS Content to Next JS (API)
03:58 - Chapter 8 - Fetch Data, Queries & Updates with Headless CMS
05:57 - Chapter 9 - Styling the Design of the Headless CMS site
06:48 - Chapter 10 - Publishing Headless CMS Site
07:59 - Summary and Key Takeaways
⛌ Try Wix Studio:
wix.com/studio/?utm_campaign=pa_influencers_community_adrian^social&experiment_id=^youtube_channel
🏴 Additional Headless CMS Resources!
wix.com/studio/blog/headless-cms
wix.com/studio/developers/headless
wix.com/studio/developers/headless/templates
dev.wix.com/docs/go-headless
Firstly, A Headless CMS is really just made up of just two things. The CMS. This is your content management system, and often found in the backend.
It’s like a repository or database of your content that is interconnected.
Secondly, and headless part. Headless essentially means you can access this data without any sort overhead, often through an API. This allow you to build on your own ecosystem, be that on react, php or even python. The point of a CMS which is Headless is to give developers the freedom to manage their data without having it locked in to a specific frontend structure. It also provides the freedom to access that content via multiple apps or systems.
With that said, lets build a basic Headless site. For this part I’m going to create this small react app which will be hosted on the Next JS platform.
Content for this site being pulled via from a backend CMS through an API layer and then passed to my front end client. While that sound complicated, it really is only around 5-10 lines of code. For this part of the video we are going to do the following
Headless CMS are easy to setup and use use for a number of things, such as:
- Headless Bookings
- Headless Blogs or Articles
- Headless eCommerce
- Headless Session Management
- Headless Events
- Headless Pricing Plans
There are some quick starter easy templates you can access in the link in the description if you want to learn more about them, as well as some great documentation online which I’ll link in the description below.
Want to learn web design? ⭐ Check out my course! ⭐
📘 Teach Me Design - Course: enhanceui.com
