Conceptual guides

This part of the documentation provides explanation of concepts to deepen and broaden your understanding of Plone.

• Choose a user interface
• Compare Buildout and pip
• Plone distributions
  • Built-in distributions
  • Third-party distributions
  • Related packages
  • Comparison with other CMSs
• Package management
  • Manage backend Python packages
  • Manage frontend Node.js packages
• Architecture: packages and dependencies
  • Motivation
  • Overview
  • Mental model
  • Detailed view of the architecture
  • Packages in detail
• make build-backend details
• Component architecture
  • Concepts
  • Design patterns
  • Component architecture in Plone