AEM Headless CMS Developer Journey aem-headless-developer-journey
Welcome to the documentation for developers who are new to Adobe Experience Manager headless CMS!
Learn about the powerful and flexible headless features, their capabilities, and how to use them on your first headless development project. This journey provides you with all the information you need to develop your first headless application.
Introduction introduction
The Headless implementation of AEM uses Content Fragments Models and Content Fragments to focus on the creation of structured, channel-neutral, and reusable fragments of content and their cross-channel delivery. To achieve this it forgoes page and component management as is traditional in full stack solutions. It is a modern and dynamic development pattern for implementing digital experiences.
This guide leads you through headless implementation topics in AEM so when you are done you can:
- 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.
- Take the first steps implementing your first AEM headless project.
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.
The Headless Developer Journey the-journey
We will cover many topics in this journey, which will provide you with the foundational knowledge of headless in AEM.
Although you can go directly to a particular part of the journey, many concepts are built on ones in previous articles. Adobe recommends that you start at the beginning and progress sequentially.
What’s Next what-is-next
Get started by checking out the next article: Learn about CMS Headless Development.
Choose Your Own Adventure choose-your-path
Do you prefer to learn at your own pace? Check out these 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 related processes and features. A journey illustrates how multiple features work together to serve a single business need.
Check out these additional journeys for more information on how AEM’s powerful features work together.
- The AEM Developer Portal
- AEM Headless tutorials - If you prefer to learn by doing and have existing knowledge of AEM, take our hands-on tutorials organized by API and framework, that explore creating and using applications built on AEM Headless.
- 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.
- 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.
- Headless Architect Journey - Start here for an introduction to the powerful, and flexible, headless features of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, and how to model content for your project.
- AEM as a Cloud Service technical documentation - If you already have a firm understanding of AEM and headless technologies, check out our in-depth technical docs.