Acquia jumps on headless CMS bandwagon with open supply starter package • TechCrunch

During the last decade or so, content material administration programs have developed from monolithic programs managed by IT to a set of providers made out there to builders via an API. The extra fashionable strategy separates the presentation layer on the entrance finish from the administration on the again finish.

Right now, Acquia, the corporate behind the open supply Drupal venture, introduced its official entry into the headless CMS market, and never surprisingly it’s based mostly on Drupal and open supply. The corporate is looking this providing a “starter package,” a strategy to reap the benefits of headless options as wanted, says Jim Shaw, SVP and GM for Drupal at Acquia.

“When you come to Acquia and also you’re beginning a digital expertise venture, we usually give you Acquia CMS as the start line to start out with Drupal. However now we’re additionally providing a headless package inside that, as a way to use headless options to maneuver content material via an API,” Shaw advised TechCrunch.

He factors out that whereas it’s releasing the headless package, the corporate sees this as a part of a hybrid technique that features the full-blown Acquia CMS working along with the headless piece. “And for us that is much less about having a devoted headless product that solely does headless. It’s about having these capabilities out there from the platform that permits you to do hybrid in addition to headless,” he mentioned.

In actual fact, Shaw doesn’t see many purchasers going full-on headless. “I feel it’s unlikely that individuals will go 100% headless, that they may have solely headless use instances. I feel what we see is folks doing each, and because of this what we’re doing is we’re we’re constructing these capabilities contained in the Acquia platform,” he mentioned.

Along with the headless starter package, the corporate can be introducing a package for subsequent.js, an open supply internet improvement framework, to assist builders construct a entrance finish too. “[We’re also offering] a starter package for subsequent.js that primes the pump when it comes to getting a subsequent.js entrance finish working with a headless again finish,” he mentioned.

He says some prospects have been taking this strategy on their very own, and the corporate wished to construct one thing to make it simpler to do that with out constructing a full-blown product. “In order that’s why we providing these are starter kits, not total new product. They’re layers inside, issues that now we have that then permit our prospects — and hopefully new prospects — to speed up these headless initiatives on our platform and nonetheless have all of the choices out there to them when it comes to having a hybrid strategy out there as effectively.”

The 2 kits are being introduced at the moment at Acquia Have interaction, the corporate’s buyer convention going down in Miami this week. The kits will likely be out there for obtain at the moment.