Frontend options for TYPO3: from CMS to live storefront

TYPO3 is a enterprise, PHP-based CMS you can run headless: it delivers content through its headless API and REST endpoints, but it does not ship a finished, production-ready frontend. Building that frontend is a separate decision, and a visual page builder is one of the routes for TYPO3.

What TYPO3 gives you

TYPO3 manages your content, editorial workflow and localization, and exposes it through its headless API and REST endpoints. What it does not give you is a ready storefront: layout, components and page logic are yours to build.

The frontend question

Every TYPO3 project faces the same choice. Four options are established:

• Official starter or template: great to learn, you keep building the production frontend
• Community framework: active, but no official product and no enterprise support net
• Custom build (Next.js or Nuxt): full control, six to twelve months plus maintenance
• Visual page builder: components, hosting and a visual editor in the platform, live in weeks

Laioutr as the frontend layer for TYPO3

Laioutr reads your TYPO3 content through its headless API and REST endpoints and renders it as a fast frontend, with 70+ components, EU hosting and Core Web Vitals by default. TYPO3 stays your content backend; Laioutr delivers the frontend. See, for example, the Page Builder for TYPO3.

FAQ

Does Laioutr replace TYPO3? No. TYPO3 stays the content backend; Laioutr is the frontend layer on top.

How does Laioutr connect to TYPO3? Through its headless API and REST endpoints, plus project-specific queries for custom logic.

More on the category: what a Frontend Management Platform is, or the Laioutr home page.