Introduction

Neos is an open source content application platform. It offers a functional scope of a CMS (content management system), but thanks to its flexible data model, also enables other possible uses, for example as a headless CMS.

Compared to other CMSs, Neos places great emphasis on intuitive usability and uses the website itself as an interface for editing wherever possible (inline editing). This is intended to enable content editors to focus more on the content than on the editing technology.

Neos tries to satisfy the following target audiences:

• Website visitors: Rendered content with no additional JavaScript needed.
• Content editors: Full featured editing with inline editing.
• Developers: Stable and flexible framework, that allow the creation of amazing experiences.

Neos is a PHP application which runs on a web server and an SQL database. It is based on top of the Flow Framework, which is developed by the Neos team as well.

As a developer you configure the database via the structured content storage and define the rendering with an object oriented templating language. For both the content and the rendering, you'll probably not need PHP – but YAML and Fusion which serve as powerful abstractions.

If you want to learn more about the highly customizable node-driven approach that Neos enables, the docs are a good place to start.

If you want a more guided way to learning Neos, our tutorials have your back. You can check out the examples, if you want to explore the functionality made possible with Neos and its Backend Editor.

Read on to learn Neos basics and API!