Why we’re adding a CMS to Build UI

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Sam and Ryan chat about issues they’ve run into in the past when building media sites that store content alongside other dynamic data like user accounts, and how they’re using a CMS to alleviate these problems in Build UI. They also talk about the approach they’ll be using for access control to the CMS.

Topics include:

• 0:00 – Intro
• 0:27 – Unintentional security attack vectors
• 11:20 – Environment-specific vs. environment-independent data
• 23:43 – Architecture discussion for an environment-independent CMS
• 34:39 – Added complexity for testing

Links:

• Framer Motion Recipes on Build UI
• Hacker News post on TeamViewer