AEM Headless Developer Journey aem-headless-developer-journey
Start here for a guided journey through the powerful and flexible headless features of AEM, their capabilities, and how to use them on your first headless development project. This journey provides you with all the AEM Headless Documentation you need to develop your first headless application.
Introduction introduction
Headless implementation forgoes page and component management as is traditional in full stack solutions and focuses on the creation of channel-neutral, reusable fragments of content and their cross-channel delivery. It is a modern and dynamic development pattern for implementing digital experiences.
This guide leads you through the most headless implementation topics in AEM so that on completion you:
- Have a full understanding of what headless content delivery is and its benefits.
- Understand AEM’s headless features and how they work together to deliver a headless experience.
- Have the ability to take the first steps implementing your first AEM headless project.
AEM Documentation Journeys documentation-journeys
A Documentation Journey ties together many different and perhaps complicated topics and features by providing a narrative that helps the reader, who can be new to AEM, understand and solve a business problem from beginning to end, while assuming minimal prior topic or AEM knowledge.
Documentation Journeys are designed around best practices principles, informed by Adobe’s latest research, proven implementation experience from Adobe consultants, and feedback from customer projects.
If you want to know how Adobe recommends how to solve headless business cases with AEM, AEM Headless Journeys are where to start.
Audience audience
This journey is designed for the developer persona, laying out the requirements, steps, and approach of an AEM Headless project from a developer’s perspective. The journey defines additional personas with which the developer must interact for a successful project, but the point-of-view for the journey is that of the developer.
The following are the personas that interact in this journey.
Information in this journey can be useful to all personas, but some information may be superfluous to certain roles. Stay tuned for forthcoming journeys covering additional roles.
The Headless Developer Journey the-journey
You will explore many topics in this journey. The following articles give you foundational knowledge of headless in AEM and link out to detailed technical documentation.
Although you can go directly to a particular part of the journey, many concepts build on ones in previous articles. Therefore if you are new to headless in AEM, Adobe recommends that you start at the beginning and progress sequentially.
What’s Next what-is-next
You are now ready to get started on your Adobe Headless journey. We encourage you to continue on to the next part of the journey and read the article Learn about CMS Headless Development.
Choose Your Own Adventure choose-your-path
However, Adobe wants you to succeed as you get started with your AEM Headless project, regardless of your learning style. So consider these two options.
- If you prefer to continue to learn about headless concepts and AEM’s headless technologies, you should continue your AEM headless journey as recommended by next reviewing the document How to Model Your Content as AEM Content Models where you learn how to model your content structure in AEM.
- If you prefer to learn by doing, you can jump to the Getting Started with AEM Headless hands-on tutorial where you will jump directly into AEM Headless development by implementing a simple project to expose AEM headless content.
Additional Resources additional-resources
Documentation journeys show you how AEM solves a business problem by providing a narrative that guides you through complex, interrelated processes and features. A journey illustrates how multiple features work together to serve a single business need.
As such, journeys are designed to stand on their own. However, several them can be related to each other. Check out these additional journeys for more information on how AEM’s powerful features work together.
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AEM Headless tutorials - If you prefer to learn by doing and are technically inclined, take our hands-on tutorials organized by API and framework, that explore creating and using applications built on AEM Headless.
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AEM Headless Translation Journey - This documentation journey gives you a broad understanding of headless technology, how AEM serves headless content, and how you can translate it.
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Headless Authoring Journey - Start here for a guided journey through the powerful and flexible headless features of AEM, their capabilities, and how to model your content on your first headless project.
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Headless Architect Journey - Start here for an introduction to the powerful, and flexible, headless features of Adobe Experience Manager, and how to model content for your project.
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AEM technical documentation - If you already have a firm understanding of AEM and headless technologies, you may want to directly consult our in-depth technical docs.