[Pandabob]

Obviously it depends a lot on which CMS you're using and I can imagine there being a lot of complexity involved.

That said, setting up something like Contentful and integrating it with NextJS is roughly a day or two of work if you're doing it for the first time. And it all works over REST so you don't have to worry about GraphQL.

You can even do "previews" now with Next thanks to preview mode: https://next-preview.now.sh/

[mherchel]

Contentful just abstracts away the complexity (for money). It's still complex, but you're paying instead of dealing with the complexity.

[colbyfayock]

i think thats a fair point but there's a lot of benefit from from that. they're able to focus on making a great CMS

there are also some open source solutions that are great. Netlify CMS works really well for a very basic page / blog management solution

a lot of the headless CMS solutions also offer generous free tiers, making it perfect for web devs to spin up a free instance for their personal sites and projects