Getting started with Builder.io

Getting Started with Builder

Getting started with Builder is simple.

Builder.io can be customized to meet all kinds of needs, from simple headless data models to full on landing page building. You can choose to allow complete free-form control of Builder.io content or limit it to your design system components.

Landing pages quick start

In this quick start example, we will set up freeform landing page building for any site with just a few lines of code.

When a request to your site comes to a URL you don't otherwise have a route for, make a request to Builder's HTML API (or use a framework-specific SDK, such as React, Next.js, Gatsby, Angular, etc) passing in the requested URL and your API key.

If Builder matches a page for this URL, return the page contents. Otherwise, send (or redirect to) your 404 page.

React

HTML API

Plain JS

Angular

Also see our guides for Next.js and Gatsby

import { BuilderComponent, builder } from '@builder.io/react'

builder.init('YOUR_KEY')
 
export default let HomePage = () => {
  const [pageJson, setPage] = useState(null)

  useEffect(() => { 
    builder.get('page', { url: '/' }).promise().then(setPage)
  , [])

  return <BuilderComponent model="page" content={pageJson} />
}

Learn more about dynamic pages

import { Builder } from '@builder.io/react'
 
// Register our heading component for use in 
// the visual editor
const Heading = props => (
  <h1 className={style}>{props.title}</h1>
)
 
Builder.registerComponent(Heading, { 
  name: 'Heading',
  inputs: [{ name: 'title', type: 'text' }]
})

Learn more about using your components

Try it in CodeSandbox

And that's it!

You've just added the ability to create custom landing pages to your site. See this guide to extend this example for SEO optimizing your landing pages by requiring custom titles, descriptions, and other meta info.

You can do a ton more with Builder.io than just landing pages. See our guide on creating custom models to learn how to use Builder.io on any page using component models, data models, or a number of other advanced techniques.

Builder content types

Try it out

Use pages to Build to manage whole pages, like:

Homepage
Content pages (about, partners, etc)
Blog pages
Landing pages

Try it out

Use Sections to Build and parts around your site or app, like

Announcement bars
Product detail descriptions
Collection heros
Cart upsells

Learn more

Use Data to control structured data like

Navigation links
Product info
Blog post authors

Learn more

Structuring your site

One of the easiest ways to get started is to add landing page building to your site. Once you have that, you can start adding editable sections across your site, and use targeting to choose the right content for the right users

Here are some examples we recommend for how to structure various pages on your site