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Why Develop on CMS Hub

Focus on meaningful development work and grow your career on a CMS and CRM platform that provides you with all the tools you need to build dynamic customer experiences
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Easily build CRM-powered experiences that your customers will love

Developers have the potential to directly impact the customer experience through their technical solutions.  But all too often, developers find themselves fixing bugs, patching plug-in conflicts, or handling small one-off requests from their marketing teams. With HubSpot’s all-on-one platform, you can focus less on maintenance, and more on meaningful work that will get you noticed. Leverage CRM-data to build integrated experiences, all without interrupting your existing workflow.

12,000+

Developers in our community.

128K+

Customers using HubSpot today.

8M+

Pages hosted on CMS Hub

900+

Curated integrations in our marketplace.

TOOLS THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE

Local website development

Leverage tools like GitHub to handle version control, and make changes to web assets as you're ready. Work within your preferred IDE using the Microsoft VS Code Extension.

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Unified data layer

CMS Hub includes HubSpot CRM, the #1 CRM platform for scaling businesses. Easily surface data from any CRM object on your site to build incredibly sophisticated experiences, and match your content with your business processes.

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Premium hosting

As a SaaS CMS, we take care of delivering your content so you can focus on more meaningful development work. With standard SSL certificates, a web application firewall (WAF), a global CDN, and 24/7 security and threat monitoring, you can rest easy knowing your website is protected from bad actors.

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Memberships

Create secure, personalized experiences for your customers by adding login elements to your website.

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Serverless functions

Add interactive elements like event registrations, guest books, and calculators, without configuring an external server, SSL certificate, or data transfer processes.

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GraphQL [Beta]

Fetch data from different data sources to power your website pages, instead of having to process and aggregate data from disparate REST API endpoints.

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  • I love the custom module interface. The ability to add your HTML/HubL, CSS, and JS all in the same place makes my life as a developer a lot simpler. It’s emblematic of a general trend with the CMS -- relative to other CMS’ the CMS Hub is very extremely organized, intuitive, and streamlined.

    Charles L. Inouye

    Web Developer

    New Breed Marketing

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  • RadekZaleski

    HubSpot's globally hosted CDN really puts me at ease. I never have to worry about how my content scales during periods of high traffic.

    Radek Zaleski

    Head of Growth

    Netguru

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    WHY BUILD ON CMS HUB?

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    Focus on meaningful work, not bug fixes

    As a SaaS CMS, with a curated ecosystem of apps and integrations, HubSpot developers focus on building CRM-powered digital experiences and business-critical integrations -- not mindless plugin maintenance. By leveraging the full platform in your development, you can provide more value for your end user with less effort.

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    Get started developing for impact, quickly

    Learning how to adopt a new CMS can be a daunting task. That’s why we provide you with courses, examples, boilerplates, and an active community to help you start developing for impact on day one.

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    Grow your career, not your to-do list

    Whether you’re developing apps or themes for our marketplace, or building full websites for clients or your own company, there’s plenty of greenspace to make an impact within HubSpot’s community. You’ll have the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunities present within the community to quickly grow your career, and become more than just a developer who knows one system.

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    Get in on the ground floor

    HubSpot is the most popular CMS on review sites like G2, and the entire platform is loved by marketers who want to differentiate their business through the experiences they build for their customers. We have big plans for the future of CMS Hub, and learning the tools now will set you up for success as more and companies adopt the HubSpot platform.

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      FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

      While HubSpot is based on languages you already know (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), you can unlock more power in CMS Hub by leveraging HubL. HubL is a simple templating language based on Jinja. It can be used to display data just like PHP on WordPress, and Liquid on Shopify. Use our theme boilerplate to get started quickly, and learn HubL at your own pace through our developer documentation.

       

      Developers can easily surface data from any CRM object in CMS content, making it possible to create personalized, data-driven websites that deliver a seamless user experience. CMS Hub also comes with HubDB, a content-specific structured data store that can be used to create custom types of content that dynamically generate listing and detail pages to help scale your digital presence.

       

      Developers leveraging CMS Hub can offer a variety of services to their clients -- ranging from front end web development, backend web app development, building assets for the marketplace, and more. Leveraging the full platform, you could also provide services on system integration, technical SEO, or website optimization to help your clients see better results with their website.

      Join our developer community on community.hubspot.com, or join our Developer Slack for quick answers from HubSpot’s product team and experienced developers.

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