Headless CMS and Visual Editing have a long-standing love-hate relationship. Our approach to is aimed at making it dead easy for developers to implement Visual Editing in DatoCMS, to let content editors get the WYSIWYG effect seamlessly. Combined with draft mode and real-time updates, making changes is a breeze. No more hunting through record forms to find the right field.
Invisible metadata in API responses is a much cleaner path than iframe sandboxing. Most headless CMS visual editors add a rendering layer that fights the frontend framework instead of working with it. The ContentLink component approach keeps the editing surface native to whatever stack you're already on, which means editors don't hit that weird lag between clicking and seeing the right field. Smart move shipping it on every plan including Free.
Invisible metadata in API responses is a much cleaner path than iframe sandboxing. Most headless CMS visual editors add a rendering layer that fights the frontend framework instead of working with it. The ContentLink component approach keeps the editing surface native to whatever stack you're already on, which means editors don't hit that weird lag between clicking and seeing the right field. Smart move shipping it on every plan including Free.