Publish it once. Deliver it globally. Production, Meet Distribution Many businesses can be split into two main segments: production and distribution. Content is no different. Many agencies and marketing departments are generating lots of content, then taking the historical route of inserting said content into a box, a legacy installed content management system. The media library within your WordPress system becomes bulky and bogged down, and you better go ahead and save those images, files and media elsewhere, since WordPress is a box and the media wouldn’t be usable in any other scenario. You’ve got production down — let’s nail down distribution. The old way of thinking would say that produced content would need to be fed into one CMS for distribution to a web page or website, while other content needs to be curtailed to send to the mobile app development agency to feed iOS and Android apps. Images would need to be resized per digital property, and one-off APIs built for a particular web application would have to be rebuilt for new application integrations as you layer your microservice applications around one another in the greater content management stack. Here’s the new model — Build your application. Manage your application. All you’ll need is your GitHub Repo and a Cosmic JS account. Using a makes for more agile dev cycles, content management and iterations, as well as the ultimate flexibility over delivery, presentation and integrations with other desired items in the stack of microservice applications that a cloud-based CMS is perfectly suited for. content delivery API Delivering content globally is as simple as: 1. Title2. Content3. Publish Delivery Content Globally via CMS API Using a like can solve many time-consuming problems. Let’s work through just a couple here. Content Delivery JSON API Cosmic JS 1. stores content as JSON objects, making it globally devourable by any internet-connected device2. It works by decoupling content from code, allowing your content to be fed into any application, regardless of which programming language you may have built it in.3. Systems like a WordPress will require app developers to be working in PHP, whereas Cosmic JS makes devs giddy by letting them build applications in languages such as , just to name a few.4. Content Editors get to experience a well-built modern framework application for which they can still manage dynamic content.5. works as a , a content delivery API as well as a Server by hosting media to be repurposed at any given time. With added-value platform items such as Imgix Image Processing, flexibility in serving media to various microservice applications becomes a breeze and far less time-consuming than past dev cycles.6. Cosmic JS is lightweight, requires no security updates, and comes fully-chalked with four : Admin, Developer, Editor and Contributor.7. Cosmic JS provides added features such as , and is portable, scalable and reusable — you can even download your bucket into a bucket.json file and take it with you. Cosmic JS Node.js, ReactJS, Vue.js, AngularJS, ReactNative Cosmic JS Content Management System User Permissions Localization, Webhooks, One-Click SSL If you haven’t already, get started by for . Helpful resources are provided below to streamline your development operations. Signing Up Cosmic JS Cosmic JS Website Cosmic JS Blog Cosmic JS GitHub Cosmic JS Apps is an API-first cloud-based content management platform that makes it easy to manage applications and content. If you have questions about the Cosmic JS API, please reach out to the founders on or . Cosmic JS Twitter Slack is the Co-Founder & CMO of , an API-first Cloud-based that decouples content from code, allowing devs to build slick apps and websites in any programming language they want. Carson Gibbons Cosmic JS Content Management Platform

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