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If you are using a third-party image hosting service like Cloudinary or if you are hosting your images via a headless CMS like Storyblok, you may have been annoyed that the images are not delivered from your domain...

A few weeks ago I started working on a small side project where it is a requirement to authenticate users. It was pretty clear to me that I didn't want to roll my own custom authentication flow, but I didn't want to go the cheap way and work with Netlify Identity either, because although I'm sure it's great (like any Netlify service), I want to learn new things with my side projects. So I decided to go the middle way and use the very popular Passport Express middleware...

For a long time, I was able to abstain, but now the time has come: I'm jumping on the Serverless hype train. Today we build a Serverless comment system powered by Netlify Functions, and we use the headless CMS Storyblok as a database (on steroids) to store the comments entered by our users...

In recent weeks I played around with a ton of headless content management systems. To cut a long story short: there are a lot of bad and a couple of pretty good ones out there. At the end of my journey, I was left with two systems I both very much enjoy: Contentful and Storyblok...