Customize Backoffice
This is how you get started with the new Backoffice and Umbraco 14.
This page is a work in progress. It will be updated as the software evolves.
Whether you're building Umbraco packages or implementing backoffice extensions, you can find resources for development here.
Lit and TypeScript have been used for building the new backoffice. Developers are free to use any framework and libraries of their choice to implement the backoffice extensions.
In this section of the documentation, we'll provide an overview of the different ways you can extend the backoffice using the new frameworks.
Terminology
There are a few words that cover certain concepts, which is good to learn to decode the purpose of code.
Resource: An API enables communication with a server.
Store: An API representing data, generally coming from the server. Most stores would talk with one or more resources. You can read more about this in the Storearticle.
State: A reactive container holding data, when data is changed all its Observables will be notified. You can read more about state and observables in the Statesarticle.
Observable: An observable is the hook for others to subscribe to the data of a State.
Observe: Observe is the term of what we do when subscribing to an Observable.
Context-API: The name of the system used to serve APIs (instances/classes) for a certain context in the DOM. An API that is served via the Context-API is called a Context. You can read more about this in the Context API article.
Context Provider: One that provides a class instance as a Context API.
Context Consumer: One that consumer subscribes to a class instance as a Context API.
Controller: An abstract term for a thing that hooks into the lifecycle of an element. Many things in our system are Controllers.
Umbraco Controller: Enables hosting controllers. Additionally, it provides a few shortcut methods for initializing core Umbraco Controllers. You can read more about this in the Controllers article.
Controller Host: A class that can host controllers.
Controller Host Element: The element that can host controllers.
Umbraco Element: The
UmbLitElementorUmbElemenMixinenables hosting controllers. Additionally, it provides a few shortcut methods for initializing core Umbraco Controllers. You can read more about this in the Umbraco Element article.
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