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

ButterCMS provides a CMS and content API for React Native apps. Use ButterCMS with React Native to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and more.

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Above is quick video of integrating Butter's Pages API into an application.

“Best CMS on the market”

Butter's API slides right into our apps and lets us avoid having yet another WordPress site. Daniel, Founder Of Collective Idea

Marketers love Butter

  • SEO Landing Pages
  • Customer Case Studies
  • Company News & Updates
  • Events + Webinar Pages
  • Education Center
  • Location Pages
  • and more...
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Butter saves you development time

Save thousands of dollars worth of development time with our easy setup.

Integrating Butter into our application took less than an hour and most of that time was spent on design work. Luke Brean, Legally
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Everything you need

  • Custom Page Types
  • Customer Case Studies
  • Custom Content Modeling
  • CDN for assets
  • Testing environment
  • Location Pages
  • Webhooks
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Beautiful admin interface

Easy to use. Easy to customize.

Integrates with React Native

Our CMS has a simple content API and drop-in React Native SDK.

Butter requires zero maintenance

Never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance.

Setup in minutes

Integrating Butter into your React Native app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for adding marketing pages to your app. You can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For full a integration guide check out our Official Guide

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Above is quick video of integrating Butter's Pages API into an application.
Integrate into your application

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",
      }
   }
}

To integrate this into your app, simply make a call to ButterCMS APIs using the ButterCMS client. Place this call in the componentDidMount hook in home.js:

import React from 'react'
import { Text,View,StyleSheet,Image,Button } from 'react-native';
import { Actions } from 'react-native-router-flux';
import butter from './butter-client'
import { TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
export default class Home extends React.Component {
   state = {
      data: ''
   }
   async componentDidMount() {
      const resp = await butter.page.retrieve('*', 'home')
      console.log(resp.data);
      this.setState(resp.data)
   }
   render() {
      const { fields } = this.state.data
      const goToAbout = () => {
         Actions.about()
      }
      const goToBlog = () => {
         Actions.blog()
      }
      if (fields) {
         return (
         <View>
            <Text style={styles.heading}>{fields.headline}</Text>
            <Image style={styles.heroimage} source={{uri: fields.hero_image}}></Image>
            <View style={styles.horizontal}>
            <TouchableOpacity style={styles.button}>
            <Button title={fields.call_to_action} onPress={goToAbout}></Button>
            </TouchableOpacity>
            <TouchableOpacity style={styles.button}>
            <Button title="Blog" onPress={goToBlog}></Button>
            </TouchableOpacity>
            </View>
         </View>

         )
      } else {
         return (
            <View>
               <Text>Loading..</Text>
            </View>
         )
      }
   }
}
const styles=StyleSheet.create({
   horizontal:{
      flex:1,
      flexDirection:'row',
      alignItems:"center",
      justifyContent:"center"
   },
   heading: {
      fontSize:'2em',
      fontFamily:'Georgia',
      color: '#333333',
      paddingTop:'10px'
   },
   heroimage:{
      width:'100%',
      height:'150px',
      padding: '20px'
   },
   button:{
      margin:20
   }
})

Get all page content of specific type. For instance, customers for the case study. Here's what customers.js might look like:

import React from 'react'
import { Text, ScrollView,StyleSheet,Image,Button } from 'react-native'
import { Actions } from 'react-native-router-flux'
import butter from './butter-client'
import { TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native-gesture-handler'
import HTMLView from 'react-native-htmlview';
export default class CaseStudy extends React.Component {
   state = {
      data: ''
   }
   async componentDidMount() {
      const resp = await butter.page.list('customer_case_study')
      this.setState(resp.data)
      console.log(resp.data);
   }
   render() {
      const { data } = this.state
      const goToHome = () => {
         Actions.home()
      }
      if (data) {
         return (
            <ScrollView style={{padding:20}}>
               {data.map(page =>
                  <ScrollView style={styles.post} key={page.slug}>
                     <Text style={styles.heading}>{page.fields.seo_title}</Text>
                     <Image style={styles.logo} source={{ uri: page.fields.customer_logo }} />
                     <HTMLView value={page.fields.testimonial}></HTMLView>
                  </ScrollView>
               )}
               <TouchableOpacity style={styles.button}>
                  <Button title="Back to Home" onPress={goToHome}></Button>
               </TouchableOpacity>

            </ScrollView>

         )
      } else {
         return (
            <ScrollView>
               <Text>Loading..</Text>
            </ScrollView>
         )
      }

   }
}
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
   post:{
      borderWidth:'1px',
      borderStyle:'solid',
      borderColor:'black',
      padding:20
   },
   vertical: {
      flex: 1,
      flexDirection: 'column',
      alignItems: "center",
      justifyContent: "center"
   },
   heading: {
      fontSize: '2em',
      fontFamily: 'Georgia',
      color: '#333333',
      paddingTop: '10px'
   },
   logo: {
      width: '90vw',
      height: '150px',
      alignItems:"center",
      flex:1,
      flexDirection:"column",
      justifyContent:"center"
   },
   content: {
      height:'100px',
      width:'100%'
   }
})

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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About ButterCMS

ButterCMS is an API-based, or "headless", CMS. We're a hosted service and we maintain all of the infrastructure. For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS check out API-based CMS vs Traditional CMS.

What kind of database can I use?

No database required! We're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.

Do you host my templates?

Unlike CMS's you might be used to, we don't control or host any of your templates. The design of your app (HTML + CSS) lives in your application along side the rest of your app. Your application calls our Content API and we return your content in JSON format. You can then render this content in any way you'd like.

Can I import my content?

Yep. To import existing content from another platform, simply send us an email.

How do you compare to Wordpress?

In short, we offer all the same easy-to-use editing capabilities of Wordpress but are significantly easier for developers to setup and maintain. This means you spend less time working on your CMS and more time focusing on things important to your business.

Can I self host Butter?

No, we're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.

More questions? We're happy to help.
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