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Plone is a mature, secure, and user-friendly content management system (CMS).
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Plone was first released to the public on October 4, 2001.
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- React-based frontend for editing and viewing content, backed by a server with a REST API.
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- Headless CMS server with a REST API, allowing a developer to build a custom frontend with their chosen technology.
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## Key benefits
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## High Level Overview
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## High Level Overview for Developers
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Plone is a content management platform with its backend written in Python. The backend builds upon Zope, an open source web
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application server and development system, and thus on the pluggable Zope Component Architecture (ZCA). The frontend has up until now
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application server and development system, and thus on the pluggable Zope Component Architecture (ZCA). The frontend has up until version 6
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served HTML based content, with advanced resource management on the server to add and bundle CSS and javascript.
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With the release of Plone 6 there are now two out of the box supported configurations possible for a new Plone website.
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You can still use the Python based backend server to render the content server side and deliver html to the browser.
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This setup is referred to in the documentation as 'Classic UI' and has been supported by Plone since its release.
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For container based deployment you only need the plone-backend image, or a derivation with your customisations added.
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For container based deployment you only need the plone-backend image, or a derivation with your customisations added.
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In the documentation
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The default and advised configuration for new websites in Plone is to use our new React Based javascript frontend called 'Volto'.
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For this setup you will still need to run the Python based backend server, but with the REST API enabled and an updated configuration profile.
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For this setup you still need to run the Python based backend server, but with the REST API enabled and an updated configuration profile.
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In addition a separate NodeJS based frontend server will serve the javascript frontend resources and provide SSR with hydration.
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To deploy this setup using containers you will need the plone-frontend image of the frontend server.
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This is the first release of Plone where the community has to work in and support 2 language and development stacks.
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This is the first release of Plone where we support two programming language stacks, one for Python and Javascript.
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The documentation has been rewritten, but for this first release you will find some repetition of concepts in the documentation structure.
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For example for deployment or development setup.
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It will take some time before we will find the best structure to explain these new possibilities and expansion of Plone its capabilities.
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For example for the development setup and information on deployment options.
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It will take some time before we find and can implement the best structure to explain these new possibilities and expansion of Plone its capabilities.
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## Deployment
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### Traditional server side rendered HTML pages
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To run a public Plone website in production, you will also need to configure and run a reverse proxy (or ingress), arrange for SSL certificates (either from Lets Encrypt or manually), check persistenct of the content database and arrange for backups. This is the domain
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of sysadmins and modern devops. Our documentation contains setup examples for these services but requires also experience and knowledge.
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## Good to know / What to know
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### Headless CMS with JavaScript frontend through a REST API
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One of the key benefits of the new React based frontend for Plone 6 is that you can now customise and theme Plone extensively using HTML and Javascript using up to date frontend technologies without having having to set up a local Python development environment.
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The Plone backend can be run on a local developer machine in a container.
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### Explain frontend-backend terms
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Basic familiarity with programming in Python and managing Python modules/packages using virtualenv and pip is required to work on the backend code.
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We use virtualenv and mxdev to manage the source installation of packages in Plone 6.
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Similarly, to develop for the new React frontend, you need to have some experience with setting up NodeJS, using a tool like NVM (Node Version Manager) to isolate your setup, Yarn and React.
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### Internationalization (i18n)
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If you are looking for more study material on these technologies and the documentation is too dense, see and follow one or more [Plone Trainings]](https://training.plone.org).
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Our trainings are more verbose and contain extra clarification and examples.
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