Shipping marketing copy inside React components is fast early and expensive later.
Every headline tweak becomes a deploy. Every empty-state sentence hides in a PR diff. Every "we'll fix copy in admin later" note becomes a launch blocker.
Why CMS-first won
Lebear treats public UI as a read-only consumer of stored content:
- Site settings own hero, section titles, and about/contact copy.
- Tools and notes own their own cards and detail pages.
- Scripts like
content:checkenforce honest published inventory.
That constraint sounds strict. It is — and it keeps the brand credible while the tool catalog grows.
What this enables next
With copy out of components, enrichment work (detail pages, RSS, JSON-LD) composes on stable loaders instead of another sweep for hardcoded strings.
The site becomes a workshop door that can stay open while tools inside mature.