Apps

An app is a single entity that can be reused in multiple stacks or organizations with just one click. Apps allow you to integrate and implement third-party solutions within Contentstack CMS.

Apps offer advanced functionalities as they extend all the features of your current extensions and more to provide seamless integration with your favorite third-party platforms.

Review the benefits of using apps.

Ease of Use

Contentstack apps are much easier to develop, distribute, and discover.

• Apps can be easily located, installed, and managed from the Marketplace.
• Contentstack apps provide an interactive UI to manage your custom app configuration from a centralized location.

Developer Friendly

• Apps minimize the efforts that developers have to put into developing, deploying, and maintaining a solution.
• With apps, developers can build complex functionalities in less time with better features.
• Developers can effortlessly share app-related upgrades with the customers.
• Customers can use the latest and best version of the solution with updated app features from the Marketplace.

Packaging UI Locations

• Extensions are now added as UI Locations inside an app. This lets you pack and install multiple instances of UI locations from a single app, which means that a single app can be used as a custom field, sidebar extension, dashboard extension, etc.
• As different UI locations can be merged and packaged into a single app, they can be installed/ uninstalled with a single click.
• As you can package UI locations together for apps, you only need to configure the apps once and use them in multiple forms.

Other Advantages

Composable architecture is a modern approach that allows enterprises to assemble independent and reusable components to create digital experiences. It separates the presentation layer from the back-end system, leading to faster development, increased scalability, and agile cross-functional organization.

This architecture offers more flexibility and scalability than traditional methods, making it suitable for organizations requiring quick integration of new technologies. By leveraging reusable components, composable architecture simplifies deployments, allows component swapping or updating, and can be used for cloud-based solutions.

Marketplace Apps
Click the link to learn about some of the apps available in the Contentstack Marketplace.