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What is the difference between a decoupled, Headless and RESTful content management system?
By means of content management system architecture,
Is the implementation of decoupling architecture (backend and frontend separation), headless architecture and Representational State Transfer (REST) necessarily related?
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Since you ask if a CMS necessarily must be implemented using all three, the answer clearly becomes a theoretical "no" if a CMS can be implemented with anything less than all three, and a practical "no" if a CMS has been implemented with anything less than all three.
REST designs have five constraints:
- Client–server architecture
- Statelessness
- Cacheability
- Layered system
- Uniform interface
and optionally
- Code on demand
Since a content management system clearly can be implemented in a way that requires client-side state (one CMS product that I have to use at work works that way, at least as far as is visible from the user perspective), therefore violating the requirement of statelessness, it is clearly possible to implement a CMS in a way that does not meet the constraints of a REST architecture.
The answer is therefore: there can exist a CMS that does not meet all of the requirements of all the terms you list, as that list includes REST. By your definition of the word "related", they are therefore not "necessarily related".
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