Is there going to be any movement on this?

[jackkemmish]

Hi there,

Just wondering if there's any movement on this?

Would be nice to have an 'off the shelf' install for a headless version of the CMS and this was looking really promising.

Thanks,
Jack

[michalkleiner]

Hi @jackkemmish,

CMS itself has just released version 5 and when installed via the CMS recipe it comes with GraphQL 4 module that can provide you with the content over an API, so the CMS itself can act in the headless capacity as a content provider already.

What's your use case, what do you want to build, what limitations around the current setup have you encountered? Or have you not try going with the existing version for your build yet?

[jackkemmish]

Hi @michalkleiner thanks for the reply!

Currently downloading SilverStripe 5 as we speak 😃

In terms of my use case, I am just exploring how we can use a front-end framework such as Next.js with SilverStripe as I have quite a few sites built using the CMS, and would be nice to switch up my offering.

I originally installed it and there were some errors so I held off continuing, but if version 5 has has a GraphQL module installed I can take a look at the docs too.

Just thought it would be nice to have some off the shelf examples with SilverStripe best practises etc, not a full project, but a working example similar to how the likes of Prismic.io and Sanity.io do.

Thanks,
Jack

[michalkleiner]

Fair enough. There might still be room for a module like this, it probably solves some headless-specific issues like returning correct error responses, image URLs and whatnot, haven't look at the code in detail, but standard CMS already comes with GraphQL, so I would give that a go first and then see what needs to be added/tweaked/ported from here.

[michalkleiner]

Check out the GraphQL docs
https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/graphql/

[jackkemmish]

Thanks for the messages @michalkleiner.

I will give SS5 and the GraphQL docs a go for now then thanks!