Overview

COMET DXP is a highly customizable platform for building modern applications based on a headless CMS.

The following design principles are considered:

• The Twelve-Factor App
• Cloud-Native (foundation/charter.md at main · cncf/foundation)
• Microservices (What are microservices?)
• Headless (Headless content management system)
• Infrastructure as Code (What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?)
• Mobile first
• Typescript everywhere

The following diagram visually highlights these principles.

A typical COMET DXP application with its microservices is shown in the following diagram.

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Many of the highlighted microservices can be exchanged or omitted.

Why don't just use an off-the-shelf solution?

• We want a solution that is highly customizable
• We want to offer excellent developer experience (DX)
• We want to host on-premise

You can build two types of applications with COMET DXP:

• Content websites: Websites that are primarily content-driven without a lot of structured data. Content websites heavily use the CMS features (page tree, blocks etc.) and have at least one site.
• Data-driven applications: Applications that are primarily data-driven. Data-driven applications might not use the CMS features and might not have a site at all.

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This terms are used throughout the documentation as some concepts heavily differ between this two types.