What is Liferay Portal?

Liferay Portal provide you enterprise web based solutions. Collaborative websites for teams and an entire enterprise are developed with the help of portals.

Using liferay authorizing teams individuals can create their own communities,creating a web area assigning a set of collaborative tools (blog, wiki, calendar, tasks, alerts, doc sharing, etc.) through the portal to the group. All collaborations within that community can be created by an individual to which he can join and organize as well.

Summary of AlloyUI

AlloyUI provides you UI components which we can scale according to our requirements and consistent look and feel for your application. It’s a structure enclosing JavaScript extensions of Yahoo UI (YUI). YUI’s modules and add up its own components to provide you the awesomeness UI. AlloyUI also using Twitter Bootstrap to make and update the styling of components easy.

Why AlloyUI

  • AlloyUI component is built on top of YUI.
  • YUI help you to build high quality production-level widgets quickly.
  • YUI has a flexible, elegant architecture that is easy to extend. It is useful in both small as well as large scale projects.

YUI helps to reduce the size of your up-front JavaScript’s request download, and lazily loads other modules as needed. For the developer, Liferay provides special tag libraries that let you designate JavaScript for parsing only after your page’s HTML and CSS have been loaded. This often speeds up the availability of your UI to your user.

Now a days, as we know, many of the developers in the Liferay community likes to use jQuery but in the current version of liferay 7 gives the freedom to developer to use any javascript framework. we can also use any third party libraries like angular,react , vue etc.

Note: AlloyUI Library is available to you in Liferay old versions.

What is liferayUI?

The user interface of Liferay CMS consists of Portal that contain UI elements. The UI element is a page or a part of the page that contains CMS that is shown to the end user. The UI Personalization is available to extend to the UI elements like Menu,Tabs,forms,text and group of controls etc. There is lot’s of framework available in the market to customize your UI of Application. AlloyUI is one of the UI frame which is developed on top of the YUI3 that offers an easy API for constructing high scalable applications. It’s maintained by liferay engineers. When you develop component using AlloyUI scripts in the portal, you can reuse them anywhere else.

What is Liferay?

Liferay is an open source portal based on a web solution providing to the enterprise a web platform for building solutions that delivers immediate result. Liferay is one of the most prominent open source for websites content management solution.

The reasons to use Liferay Portal for your website is simple:

  • It provides a robust platform to serve your site to all clients, be it desktop, mobile, or anything in between.
  • It provides all the standard applications you need to run on your site.
  • It provides an easy to use development framework for new applications or customization.

In addition to this, Liferay Portal is developed using an open source methodology, by the people from all over the world. The coding is reliable, and has been verified to be consistent and secure in mission of critical deployments in diverse industries.

Let’s see how Liferay Portal handles the assigned job:

  1. BUILDING A SITE WITH LIFERAY WEB CONTENT
  2. USING LIFERAY PORTAL AS A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM
  3. USING LIFERAY AS A WEB PLATFORM
  4. EXTENDING AND CUSTOMIZING LIFERAY FOR YOUR OWN NEEDS

So what is Liferay? As you can spot, it’s hard to exemplify, as it does too much. What we’ve essentially to say it’s totally an awesome content and document managing, user collaborating, socially enabling, application developing, corporate integrating, and completely customizable platform for building the internet.

To know more about Liferay. Please visit Liferay.com