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Gentics Mesh is your friendly, enterprise-grade, open-source headless CMS

To be honest, it’s more than that: it’s your application development platform to develop your websites, your IoT applications, your mobile apps, your smart devices and your digital signage solutions. With its best-in-class APIs, a complete feature list and great documentation, you’ll get your projects done successfully in less time, no matter which technology you prefer.


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Gentics Mesh Screenshot

Quick Start

Check out our Getting Started Guide for an explanation of the basic concepts of Gentics Mesh.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Gentics CMP

Gentics CMP (Content Management Platform) is composed of the following components: Gentics CMS, Gentics Mesh, and Gentics Portal. Gentics CMS and Mesh are available as both open-source software (OSS) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Gentics Portal Java and PHP can only be acquired with the Enterprise Edition. You can find the EE features here: Open-Source and Enterprise Edition. For more information about the EE, please contact sales@gentics.com.

Here are the links to our open-source projects:

What is a Headless CMS?

Traditional CMSes are "coupled", which means that the CMS also takes care of the presentation layer responsible for delivering the content to the clients. The content and the presentation are closely interlinked. Typically, content managers create and manage their content through tools like "What you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) editors. The CMS then delivers the content according to the front-end delivery layer built into the CMS. Typically, a traditional CMS supports your websites but not much else.

A pure headless CMS is different, because it offers no front-end capabilities at all, giving you full control of your customer experience via APIs. The CMS typically provides content managers with a presentation and channel agnostic way of managing content. It requires a front-end development team to manage the rest with the frameworks and tools they prefer: The content can be loaded by external applications which handle the content delivery to the client, meaning that the content can be (re-)used by multiple applications and channels (web, mobile app, audio guides, IOT).

a coupled vs a headless CMS

Why pick Gentics Mesh?

Gentics Mesh is the platform that holds your content, gives you great APIs to access and modify it, while relieving you from handling permissions, multi-language aspects, search, and much more. You can use its modern user interface that makes content editing and administration enjoyable. At the same time, we don’t lock you in: You choose the technology and programming language you want to implement your application with. You decide whether you want to host it locally or in the cloud. We don’t care if you’re a Windows, Linux or Mac guy or girl. Also, with its Apache 2.0 license, you are free to use it, modify it and improve it.

What makes Gentics Mesh special over other headless CMSes is:

  • its built-in user management not only covers the admin and editor features, but can also be used for handling access to your application.
  • it thinks in content trees (just like websites do), which brings you many things for free: automatic navigation menus, automatic beautiful URLs, built-in link resolving, …​
  • it is scalable and built for clustering, so your deployment can grow with your project’s success.

Status

Gentics Mesh is actively developed by a dedicated team at Gentics Software GmbH in Vienna, Austria.

CMP DEV

The Gentics Mesh core team consists of the following members:

Dominik Decker
UI/UX developer
Norbert Pomaroli
Software architect
Patrick Klaffenböck
Backend developer
Serhii Plyhun
Backend developer
Oliver Guggenberger
Backend developer
Péter Nyári
Frontend developer
En Qiang Zhou
Product Owner

Installation

For your first steps, please refer to the Quick Start which shows you how to run the demo application.

When you're ready to run your own CMS installation, check out our Administration Guide where you will find everything you need to know, and much more.

Features

Documentation

You can find our extensive documentation at https://getmesh.io/docs/

Getting Help

You can chat with us via our gitter channel or create Stack Overflow questions. Issues can be reported via GitHub.

Professional Services

The company behind Gentics Mesh, Gentics Software GmbH is offering commercial services for Gentics Mesh. Please contact us at sales@gentics.com for details.

Product Development

Gentics Mesh already has an extensive set of features, but these features can always be extended. After an extension request has been received from you, it will be evaluated whether the features will be added to the standard product or offered as an individual project.

Consulting

We accompany you in your projects with our experienced Gentics Mesh Consultants. Here we can help you setting up the project, executing together the conception of the structures in the CMS, taking into account your requirements, and offer orientation to best practices.

Maintenance

Product Maintenance includes product error removal. We offer various Product Maintenance Packages - differing between Essential, Professional and Elite Package - depending on the number of Gentics Mesh Nodes.

Support

To help and support you and your developers working and developing applications and online projects using Gentics Mesh we offer a dedicated Developer Support focusing on all the typical questions and needs arising when working with Headless CMS solutions.

Getting started developing with Gentics Mesh

Authentication

First things first: you need to authenticate, otherwise you will not be able to access your data.

You can post your credentials via JSON, use basic auth or send a JWT header - the choice is yours. If you open that URL in a browser, you will most likely authenticate using basic auth.

Using the REST API

Some sample API requests:

Using the GraphQL API

A sample GraphQL query

query webroot($path: String) {
  node(path: $path) {
    ... on vehicle {
      fields {
        name
        description
        vehicleImage {
          uuid
          path
          ... on vehicleImage {
            fields {
              image {
                height
                width
                dominantColor
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
---
{
  "path": "/yachts/indian-empress"
}

Contributing to Gentics Mesh

Please read our Contributing Guidelines if you intend to contribute to the project. The guidelines will tell you the legal information, give you instructions on how to set up your IDE in order to build Gentics Mesh, and will tell you necessary knowledge to understand the codebase.

Gentics Mesh is currently split into two repositories:

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2014-2023 Gentics Software GmbH. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Gentics is a registered trade mark of Gentics Software GmbH.