It's a big day for Magnolia frontend developers

We’re continuously improving the developer experience, so you can focus on building great applications, not on repetitive setup and manual work. Today we're excited to finally unleash the new frontend goodies that we've been working on for months.

With CLI v5, a comprehensive new suite of Starter Headless Demo projects, and a new major version of our Frontend SDK, we’re making it easier to get started, work efficiently, and follow best practices without extra effort.

These updates help you jumpstart projects faster, integrate Magnolia more smoothly, and apply best practices with ease. Whether working with a headless or Freemarker approach, you can focus more on development and less on setup.

Let’s take a look at what’s new and how these updates help you build faster, and with less hassle.

Magnolia CLI v5 is designed to make development more efficient by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying setup. Whether you’re working with headless or Freemarker-based projects, CLI v5 provides a unified approach to managing components, pages, and configurations effortlessly.

With features like jumpstart and modular plugin support, developers can set up projects faster, maintain consistency, and reduce manual effort. The plugin-based setup makes it easy to expand and adjust workflows to fit project needs. 

For an in-depth look at what CLI v5 brings and how it enhances development, check out our dedicated blog post.

Read more about Magnolia CLI v5

We’ve updated and aligned our Minimal Headless Demos to provide a consistent and structured starting point for headless development across frameworks. We call them "starters". Whether you’re building a single-page application or a server-side rendered app, you can now see how to integrate with the most popular Magnolia features in the framework that works best for your project.

Plus a snazzy new design. ;)

Each demo provides insight into how Magnolia works with different frontend frameworks. They include working examples of the key content management tasks in the visual editor. But they also showcase advanced features like Inheritance, internationalization, personalization and component autogeneration. Whether you are experimenting with Magnolia headless integration or using them as a starting point, these demos offer a solid foundation.

Explore the starters here.

To make Magnolia integration with SPAs even easier, and to provide great support for the js frameworks, we’ve introduced new front-end libraries. These libraries streamline the way you fetch and render Magnolia content.

The Frontend SDK v2 are already included in the new starter projects, so you can test them out immediately.

Explore the Frontend SDK.

Magnolia CLI, Starter Projects, and the Frontend SDK are constantly evolving. Your feedback matters!

Have feature requests or feedback on CLI v5? Let us know at cli-feedback@magnolia-cms.com.

Built a custom CLI plugin? Share it with us - we’d love to feature it.

Try out the CLI, Starter Projects and the SDK in 5 minutes with just one command. Create a new directory and then: