Acquia Developer Portal

Structured content, on any frontend

Build and scale structured content, with fine-grained access controls and collaborative editorial tools, on as many frontends as you want, with reads and writes over an open API.

Drupal gives you all of that out of the box: content types and fields, roles and permissions, editorial workflow, revisions. You write the components and editors compose pages with them. Acquia runs what’s underneath.

Drupal and Drupal Canvas are open source: you can run the same pieces on your laptop today.

• Open source freedom
• Enterprise governance and security
• Agent ready

How you build

01Pick your backend

Source CMSA fully managed CMSFully managed SaaS: Acquia runs, updates, and hosts the CMS. No infrastructure to operate and no upgrades to schedule. A site is there on day one, serving content over its API.Cloud PlatformMaximum control and flexibilityYour own Drupal codebase on Drupal-optimized hosting: contributed and custom modules, custom PHP, the content model in code, promoted through git across Dev, Stage, and Prod.

02Pick your frontend

Drupal Canvas+Single applicationRendered by Drupal: push your React components and the platform serves the finished pages.Faster to get started, simpler to maintain: no frontend to build, host, or deploy.

Canvas HeadlessDecoupled

Rendered by your frontend: the same Canvas components, served from your own app. One scaffold command per adapter.

• Next.js
• Astro
• Nuxt
• TanStack Start

Either way, editors compose pages in Drupal Canvas, a modern visual editor, from the components you write, and nothing reaches readers until it is published. They are still your own components, even when Drupal renders the pages. A site renders one way at a time, and both work on either backend.Choose your path →

Pick your task

• Start hereWhat you can build on Acquia, which docs live where, and how to choose your path.
  • What you can build
  • Choose your path
  • Glossary
  • Acquia APIs directory
• Source CMSA fully managed SaaS CMS; you build on it: Canvas components, AI agents, headless frontends.
  • Build page components
  • Connect AI agents
  • Authenticate API requests
  • Work with content via the API
  • Build a headless frontend
  • Deploy a headless frontend
  • Reference
• Cloud PlatformYou run Drupal; Acquia hosts it on a Drupal-optimized platform: the CLI, code workflow, local dev, CI/CD, automation.
  • Work from the terminal
  • Ship code to environments
  • Set up local development
  • Automate with CI/CD
  • Configure environments
  • Cache and deliver pages
  • Read logs and diagnose
  • Reference

Developer tools & reference

• Content API reference
• acli commands
• Canvas CLI
• MCP server
• Webhooks
• Glossary

Get oriented

New to Acquia? Start with what you can build and which path fits you. Subscription settings, teams, and billing are at docs.acquia.com.

• What you can build
• Which docs site do I need?
• Choose your path