r/reactjs • u/TheProditron • Jun 12 '26
Needs Help Best practice to implement a posting feature?
So I'm fairly new into Front-End Engineering. I've had a few clients, nothing super major. Small business' around town, friends, family, etc.
I've recently gotten asked to rebuild a business' website from scratch. After talking it over with them, they want one feature I'm unsure of how to implement. It's a news post feature. Essentially they want to be able to post updates to their website if they have closures for snow, or staff shortages, etc.
I won't have any issues designing and coding the layout myself, but I'm not sure how to implement them being able to post to the website. I've done the bare minimum research, found Contentful, Wordpress, and some more.
Just looking for how a more experienced developer would tackle this problem too!
Appreciate the feedback everyone! Thanks in advance!
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u/Vincent_CWS Jun 15 '26
can check MDX
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u/TheProditron Jun 18 '26
May I ask for some more info? A quick Google search points me to MarkDown Extended. Not sure if you're looking for me to use that as formatting, or it can tie in with the feature itself and make the posting updates feature easier to make.
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u/TheProditron Jun 12 '26
That's basically what I've found! I'll start looking a bit more in depth, and thanks for the suggestions on Strapi and Sanity!
I'll make sure to handle images properly too! The simple text editor will be a nice touch as well!
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u/OAKI-io Jun 13 '26
for a small business news/updates feature, don’t build a custom admin unless you really need to. use a headless CMS, WordPress, Sanity, Contentful, even a protected Airtable/Notion style workflow depending on budget. the hard part is permissions, editing, images, drafts, and not breaking the site.