CMS
Headless Content Management Systems (CMS) are essential for managing and delivering content in your storefront. They allow you to create, edit, and publish content in seconds without ever touching the code, facilitate the implementation of personalization and A/B testing, and provide a seamless experience for your customers. Alokai supports multiple CMS integrations, offering flexibility in managing and delivering content for your Storefront.
Features
Every CMS integration comes with a set of features that accelerate your content management process:
- Predefined Content Types: Use our predefined content types to structure your content
- Storefront Components: Display content in your Storefront using our reusable components
- Styling: Customize the appearance of the components to match your brand
- Live Preview: Preview content changes in your CMS in real-time
- Unified Architecture: Use the same components across different CMS integrations
- Simple Installation Process: Add the module to your Storefront with a single command
Predefined Content Types
A headless CMS allows you to define dynamic content types to structure your content. Our CMS integrations come with predefined content types that you can import into your CMS environment and start building your content immediately. They have been designed so that they are easy to manage and display in your Storefront.
With the default set of Content Types - in combination with Storefront components - you can quickly:
- enhance your Storefront's Product Listing and Product Details pages with dynamic CMS content,
- build fully-dynamic Storefront pages such as Home, About or Contact.
Read our quick-start guide on creating CMS pages.
Storefront Components
The content you create in your CMS has to be displayed in your Storefront. Our CMS integrations provide you with frontend components for all of the predefined content types. These components include banners, cards, hero sections and more. They allow you even to fetch additional data from your eCommerce platform, such as product information. The components are based on Storefront UI - a library of reusable components that are designed to work seamlessly with your CMS.
Find out more about the components in the Components page.
Styling
You can customize the appearance of the components to match your brand. Furthermore, you can change the colors, fonts, and any other styles to create a unique look for your Storefront. Styles can be applied globally in the codebase or for individual component entries in the CMS.
Live Preview
The Live Preview feature enables content editors to view real-time changes in the Storefront as they edit CMS content, without needing to publish or save first. The side-by-side view of the content form and the Storefront iframe shortens the feedback loop, allowing for faster iterations.
Unified Architecture
Our CMS integrations follow a unified architecture. They are using the same set of components to display dynamic content and you can switch between them without completely remodelling the code in your Storefront. This is especially useful in the PoC phase when you want to evaluate more than one CMS.
Find out more about the Unified Architecture here.
Simple Installation Process
Choose your CMS integration and follow the installation guide to add it to your Storefront.