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Webiny is the AI-programmable CMS that gives enterprises full control. Build, extend and automate your content operations with a platform designed to be shaped by both developers and AI agents.
Our weekly release is here! This week we introduced a couple of improvements and fixes in different areas in Webiny. Let’s check them out!
Add support for CMS hooks via plugins (#1142)
Until now, there was no way to trigger a webhook when a content entry was updated or deleted. In this release, we’ve added support for hook plugins, which will allow you to hook into the CMS Data Manager, process entry-update and entry-delete events, and trigger whatever logic you want webhook, Slack notification, or something else.
Start creating your serverless applications with Webiny. Follow our Quick Start article, which will guide you through the initial set up steps.
Just in case you’ve missed it, if you’d like to check out the full changelog, you can do that here.
Single Page Applications With Webiny
In this session, we will be covering how Webiny enables us to create two main types of Single Page Applications (SPAs): full Client-Side Rendered (CSR) applications and applications that are utilizing a technique known as Server-Side-Rendering (SSR), in order to make them visible to search engine and social media web crawlers.
Starting off with a brief introduction to SPAs, we will see what they are, how they work, and their main advantages and disadvantages. We’ll also take a look at different approaches when it comes to rendering on the web in general. Once we have this fundamental knowledge, we’ll learn how Webiny approaches SPAs and how it overcomes some of the issues previously seen — both on the cloud architecture level and in the actual code.
App Development With Webiny
If you are interested to learn how to develop apps with Webiny, in this session, we’ll get to know the structure of the app, how it is bundled, and how to make reusable react app templates.
Apps in Webiny are just like any other React app. No difference from regular create-react-app, but with more freedom. ⭐️
You can use the default bundling utilities, tweak configs, or replace bundling logic completely. Last but not least, the Webiny apps are ready for the SSR. We provide services for SSR set up for you; you just need to deploy your app.
Check our knowledge-sharing session below to get hands-on Webiny apps.
Get Started with Webiny
If you are just getting started with Webiny, follow our Get Started YouTube videos below.
We encourage everyone to get involved and contribute, regardless of their experience level. Read the contributing guide, and if you still run into problems, just give us a ping on Slack, we will help you out.
Our development team is on standby to help your in-house team to learn and adopt Webiny — all free of cost!
We are looking for a member to join our team. If you are interested? Apply for the Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer role.
Since we are a small team, in this role, you’ll have a significant opportunity to directly influence the technical and product design choices we will make.
We have redesigned and published some of our pages with additional content. Check out our features page to learn how Webiny is a single platform for all of your serverless use-cases.
We never stop upgrading our product and we work with the community to identify what features they would like to see implemented in future releases.
We have a mission to empower developers and organizations to build serverless applications. As the next step in our mission, we want to bring Webiny even closer to our audience.
Webiny Control Panel will be our first commercial product and it will greatly complement our open-source offering.
Here are some of its features.
Check out our Roadmap Page for more details.