A React CMS like no other

Meet the headless React CMS that integrates with your app using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.

Intuitive admin interface

So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.

Handy integration with React.js

Our React CMS has a simple content API and drop-in React SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.

A truly zero-maintenance solution

With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.

Powerful CMS for React. Zero headache.

Drop our API-based CMS into your React app in minutes. 

ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for React and React.js apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our React CMS set up in one hour or less. 

That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content. 

See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.

“Best CMS on the market”

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After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience. Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml

Deploy our React Starter in 30 seconds

Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and run your local server on localhost:3000/.

$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/react-starter-buttercms.git
$ cd react-starter-buttercms
$ npm install
$ echo 'REACT_APP_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=your_free_api_token_here' >> .env
$ npm run start

The React CMS that makes content marketing easy

ButterCMS is the best headless cms for React for a simple reason: React developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.

  • SEO landing pages
  • Customer case studies
  • Company news & updates
  • Events + webinar pages
  • Education center
  • Location pages
  • And more...

The best & simplest headless React CMS you'll find

Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!

headshot of LUKE GARDNER,

It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO

Fast integration with any React app

Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing React app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your React or React.js app.

Of course, you can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS React API client.

See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your React.js app.

Seamless React components

Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your React components. 

Components are the essential building blocks of any React app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease. 

Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing React components, and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.

One React CMS with everything you need

There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless React CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full React API.

  • Custom page types
  • Custom content modeling
  • CDN for assets
  • Webhooks
  • Testing environment
  • Customer case studies
  • Location pages

ButterCMS saves you development time

Most customers get our React CMS up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!

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Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME

How to integrate ButterCMS into your React application

Just follow the simple steps below to complete the integration and begin creating pages with Butter. Be sure to check out our full guide to creating pages using the ButterCMS React API.

1. First, you would set up a new Customer Case Study page type in Butter and create a page. With your page defined, the ButterCMS API will return it in JSON format like this:

{
    "data": {
        "slug": "acme-co",
        "fields": {
            "facebook_open_graph_title": "Acme Co loves ButterCMS",
            "seo_title": "Acme Co Customer Case Study",
            "headline": "Acme Co saved 200% on Anvil costs with ButterCMS",
            "testimonial": "<p>We've been able to make anvils faster than ever before! - <em>Chief Anvil Maker</em></p>\r\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.buttercms.com/NiA3IIP3Ssurz5eNJ15a\" alt=\"\" caption=\"false\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" /></p>",
            "customer_logo": "https://cdn.buttercms.com/c8oSTGcwQDC5I58km5WV",
        }
    }
}

2. To create these pages in our app, create a src/Customer.js file, as follows:

import React from 'react'
import butter from './butter-client'
import { Helmet } from 'react-helmet'

export default class extends React.Component {
  state = {
    data: {
      fields: {}
    }
  }
  async componentDidMount () {
    const { match } = this.props
    const resp = await butter.page.retrieve('customer_case_study', match.params.customer)
    this.setState(resp.data)
  }
  render () {
    const product = this.state.data
    const { customer_logo: customerLogo, headline, testimonial, seo_title, facebook_open_graph_title } = product.fields

    return (
      <div>
        <Helmet>
          <title>{seo_title}</title>
          <meta property='og:title' content={facebook_open_graph_title} />
        </Helmet>
        <div>
          <img src={customerLogo} alt='' height='124' width='124' />
        </div>
        <h1>{headline}</h1>
        <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: testimonial }} />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

3. Next, set up the Customers Page to list all our customers. To create a new file src/Customers.js. In this file, we should:

     a. Initialize the butterCMS library.
     b. On the componentDidMount hook, fetch the list of case studies.
     c. Return the response data as the component state.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

import React from 'react'
import { Link } from 'react-router-dom'
import butter from './butter-client'

export default class extends React.Component {
  state = { data: [] }
  async componentDidMount () {
    const resp = await butter.page.list('customer_case_study')
    this.setState(resp.data)
  }
  render () {
    return (
      <div>
        {this.state.data.map((customer, key) => {
          return (
            <div key={key}>
              <img src={customer.fields.customer_logo} height='40' width='40' />
              <Link to={`/customer/${customer.slug}`}>{customer.fields.headline}</Link>
            </div>
          )
        })}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

4. Finally, update the routes in your app to route to the specified components. You can create the route for your page in src/index.js as follows:

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom'


import Customer from './Customer'
import Customers from './Customers'

const AppRouter = () => (
  <Router>
    <div>
      <Route path='/customers' exact component={Customers} />
      <Route path='/customer/:customer' component={Customer} />
    </div>
  </Router>
)

ReactDOM.render(<AppRouter />, document.getElementById('root'))

That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.

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