How to Add a Blog to Your Remix App with a Headless CMS
Remix offers excellent SSR and progressive enhancement. Learn how to integrate a headless CMS blog with Remix loader functions.
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Why Remix for Blogs
Remix handles data loading, caching, and mutations elegantly. Its loader/action pattern is perfect for fetching blog content from a headless CMS — you get server-side rendering, stale-while-revalidate caching, and progressive enhancement out of the box.
Setting Up the Loader
// app/routes/blog._index.tsx\nimport { json } from "@remix-run/node";\n\nexport async function loader() {\n const res = await fetch(\n "https://app.rankflo.io/api/v1/content?project_key=blg_xxx&sort=newest"\n );\n const data = await res.json();\n return json(data, {\n headers: { "Cache-Control": "public, s-maxage=60, stale-while-revalidate=300" }\n });\n}Blog Post Route
// app/routes/blog.$slug.tsx\nexport async function loader({ params }) {\n const res = await fetch(\n `https://app.rankflo.io/api/v1/content?project_key=blg_xxx&slug=${params.slug}`\n );\n const { data } = await res.json();\n if (!data) throw new Response("Not Found", { status: 404 });\n return json(data);\n}\n\nexport function meta({ data }) {\n return [{ title: data.seo?.metaTitle || data.title }];\n}SEO Meta with Remix
Remix's meta export makes SEO straightforward. Return title, description, and OG tags from your CMS data in the meta function. Remix handles injecting them into the HTML head.
Performance
Remix + headless CMS gives you server-rendered HTML on first load with client-side navigation for subsequent pages. Combined with CDN caching headers, this produces sub-second load times consistently.