# Frontend overview

commercetools Frontend helps developers and business users collaborate on creating and maintaining the frontend for their commerce website.

commercetools Frontend provides a development framework and the tools necessary to build, deploy, and maintain a commerce website. It facilitates collaboration between developers and business users.

## What commercetools Frontend does

commercetools Frontend gives you the framework and tools to build, deploy, and maintain your commerce website. It enables you to:

- **Orchestrate data**: you can orchestrate data from different headless services with the API hub and extensions.
- **Manage UI components**: you can develop, deploy, and maintain reusable UI components.
- **Design and optimize websites**: you can design, manage, and optimize your website directly from the Studio.
- **Deliver Progressive Web Apps**: serve your website as a Progressive Web App (PWA), optimized for performance and mobile-first with the delivery layer.

![A diagram with an overview of commercetools Frontend architecture](https://docs.commercetools.com/frontend-development/images/commercetools-frontend-architecture-diagram.png)

You can extend the backend functionality by creating extensions written as JavaScript functions. Extensions let you fetch data, perform mutations, or any other business logic for your commerce website. A ready-to-use backend extension for [commercetools](/frontend-development/using-the-commercetools-extension.md) is included.

## User-specific workflows

Developers will primarily use the [CLI](/frontend-development/cli.md) in combination with the [Studio](/frontend-studio/accessing-the-studio.md) to develop Frontend components and extensions, and to manage the configuration and performance of your commercetools Frontend project.

Business users can also use [the Studio](/frontend-studio/overview.md) user interface to design, manage, and optimize your website.

## Additional resources

Get a comprehensive roadmap for learning commercetools Frontend in our [Frontend study guide](/study-guides/frontend-study-guide.md), covering everything from core concepts to deployment and go-live.

To learn more about commercetools Frontend, see the following resources:

- [Main development concepts](/frontend-development/development-concepts.md)
- [Architecture and stack](/frontend-development/architecture-and-stack.md)
- [Extensions](/frontend-development/extensions.md)
- [Frontend components](/frontend-development/frontend-components.md)
- [Frontend SDK](/frontend-development/frontend-sdk-v1.md)
- [Launchpad](/frontend-development/launchpad-overview.md)

## Support

If you experience any issues when using commercetools Frontend, contact the [commercetools support team](https://support.commercetools.com/).

To check the status of commercetools Frontend, see the [system status page](https://status.commercetools.com/).

## Related pages

- [Area overview page with navigation](/frontend-development.md)
- [Next page: Architecture and stack](/frontend-development/architecture-and-stack.md)
- [Search documentation and API specs](/search.md)