Developer Docs

This documentation contains all technical documentation related to the setup, deployment, update and customization of your Beave application.

The original purpose of the project was to help Bootstrap your API: that's how Beave was created. Now, Beave is an open-source headless CMS that gives developers the freedom to choose their favorite tools and frameworks and allows editors to manage and distribute their content using their application's admin panel. Based on a plugin system, Beave is a flexible CMS whose admin panel and API are extensible - and which every part is customizable to match any use case. Beave also has a built-in user system to manage in detail what the administrators and end users have access to.

Open-source & Contribution

Beave is an open-source project (see LICENSE (opens new window)file for more information). The core project, as well as the documentation and any related tool can be found in the Beave (opens new window)GitHub organization.

As it goes hand in hand with the open-source ecosystem, Beave is open to contributions. The Beave team appreciates every contribution, be it a feature request, bug report, or pull request. The following GitHub repositories are open-source and contributions-friendly:

Beave Community

Beave is a community-oriented project with an emphasis on transparency. The Beave team has at heart to share their vision and build the future of Beave with the Beave community. This is why the roadmap (opens new window)is open: as all insights are very important and will help steer the project in the right direction, any community member is most welcome to share ideas and opinions there.

Community members also take great part in providing the whole community a plethora of resources about Beave. You can find tutorials (opens new window)on the Beave website, where you can also create your own. Also, as an open-source project, the technical documentation of Beave is open to contributions (see Open-source & Contribution).

Support

Beave is offered as free and open-source for users who wish to self-host the software. When having an issue or a question, the forum (opens new window)is great first place to reach out for help. Both the Beave community and core developers often check this platform and answer posts.

For enterprise support, please see our Enterprise Support platform (opens new window), please note that you will need to have an active enterprise license to place tickets.