ButterCMS Spring Boot Integration

ButterCMS Spring Boot Integration

ButterCMS is a powerful headless content management system that provides a clean API for managing blog posts, pages, and other content. When integrated with Spring Boot, it offers developers a flexible solution for building content-driven applications without the overhead of traditional CMS platforms.

This guide explores the complete integration of ButterCMS with Spring Boot, including implementation details, caching strategies, and best practices for building a performant content management system.

Why ButterCMS + Spring Boot?

• Headless Architecture: Decouple content management from presentation layer
• API-First Design: Clean REST API for all content operations
• Developer Experience: Easy integration with existing Spring Boot applications
• Performance: Built-in CDN and caching capabilities
• Scalability: Handle high traffic loads with proper caching strategies
• Security: No database management or security concerns

Implementation

Add ButterCMS dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.buttercms</groupId>
    <artifactId>buttercmsclient</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Configure your API key in application.properties:

# ButterCMS Configuration
butter.cms.api.key=${JAVA_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY}
butter.cms.api.url=https://api.buttercms.com/v2/

Define spring configuration

@Configuration
public class CustomWebConfig {

    @Value("${buttercms.key}")
    private String butterCMSKey;

    @Bean
    public IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient() {
        return new ButterCMSClient(butterCMSKey, false);
    }

}

Using the client

Below you can see some basic operations you can do with ButterCMSClient:

List<Post> posts = butterCMSClient.getPosts(Collections.emptyMap()).getData();
List<Category> categories = butterCMSClient.getCategories(Collections.emptyMap()).getData();
Post post = butterCMSClient.getPost(slug).getData();

If you got this far, all works and now you need to just put more logic in your website/application/blog to interact with the ButterCMS api.