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CMS Migration

TYPO3 HeadlessNext.js FrontendZero Downtime Migration

Tu stack de TYPO3 acaba de perder a otro desarrollador que se negó a tocar TypoScript

Si eres un tech lead viendo cómo se dispara el presupuesto de contratación mientras los Core Web Vitals se hunden, has llegado al techo de la arquitectura.

90+

Lighthouse Score

Post-migration target

3×

Faster TTFB

SSG/ISR vs monolithic

100%

Content Preserved

Pages, forms, i18n

Data Loss

Full audit trail

What Decoupling TYPO3 Actually Means — And What Stays The Same

Your TYPO3 deployment ships with EXT:headless installed. That extension exposes your content types, navigation trees, forms, and plugins as JSON API endpoints. A Next.js application consumes those APIs and renders server-side or static pages at the edge. Your editorial team sees the same backend workspace they've always used. Your visitors hit a frontend that loads in under a second. The decoupling means TYPO3 updates no longer take down your public site, because the frontend and backend deploy independently. Your multilanguage setup stays intact — site trees, language fallbacks, workspace previews all flow through the headless layer. What changes is performance, hiring, and the fact that a frontend deploy no longer touches your database server.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Monolithic TYPO3 renders every page server-side on every single request That means slow TTFB, poor Core Web Vitals, and search rankings that quietly slip.

The frontend's locked to Fluid templates and jQuery-era patterns Good developers won't touch it, and hiring gets harder every year.

Multilanguage and multidomain setups turn into TypoScript spaghetti over time One content update can silently break other locales—and you won't find out until someone complains.

Extensions like EXT:form and EXT:news don't just work headless out of the box—they need custom JSON mapping Skip that step and you end up with a half-migrated site where forms don't submit and news feeds return nothing.

When backend and frontend share the same deployment, a TYPO3 core update can take down your entire public-facing site That's a bad day.

Without static generation or edge caching, your server costs climb in lockstep with traffic instead of staying flat. Server costs scale linearly with traffic instead of staying flat

Cumplimiento

EXT:headless Configuration

We install and configure the FriendsOfTYPO3 headless extension with site YAML flags, redirect middleware, and custom JSON output. Every content element ends up with a clean, typed API contract before we write a single line of frontend code.

Content Element Mapping

Every content element—standard and custom—gets mapped to a TypeScript interface and a matching React component. Nothing gets left out.

Multilanguage & Multidomain

We replicate your TYPO3 language fallback chains and domain routing in Next.js using i18n routing and middleware. All your locale URLs stay intact, so there's no SEO disruption at cutover.

Form & Extension Support

EXT:form, EXT:news, EXT:powermail, EXT:felogin, and EXT:solr each get dedicated Next.js integrations—proper POST handling, finisher support, the works.

SEO & Redirect Preservation

Every URL, meta tag, and 301 redirect gets exported from TYPO3 and rebuilt in Next.js. Structured data and canonical tags come with it.

Performance Benchmarking

We run Lighthouse audits before and after migration on every template. The target is 90+ across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.

Qué construimos

Renders every page server-side on every request — TTFB climbs, Core Web Vitals tank, Google filters you down

Static generation at build + ISR on demand — your high-traffic pages serve from the edge, editorial changes go live in seconds

Locks your frontend to Fluid templates and jQuery patterns that drive modern developers away

TypeScript component library built from your JSON schema — developers actually want to work on your stack

Turns multilanguage and multidomain into TypoScript debt that silently breaks other locales when you publish

Workspace previews and language fallbacks flow through the headless layer without TypoScript rewrites

Ships EXT:form and EXT:news without headless JSON mapping — half your site stops working post-migration

EXT:form, EXT:news, and custom CEs map to dedicated Next.js components with full API coverage audited upfront

Couples backend and frontend deployment so a TYPO3 core update can take your entire public site offline

Frontend deploys to Vercel independently — TYPO3 updates never touch your public-facing site

Scales server costs linearly with traffic because there's no static generation or edge caching layer

Edge caching + static pages flatten your infrastructure costs regardless of traffic spikes

Nuestro proceso

TYPO3 Audit & API Mapping

We start by inventorying every page type, content element, extension, language, and domain in your TYPO3 instance. You get a complete JSON API contract and a migration scope document before anything gets built.

Week 1-2

EXT:headless Setup & Customization

Next, we install and configure the headless extension, write TypoScript overrides for custom CEs, set up site YAML flags, and verify JSON output for every content type.

Week 2-3

Next.js Frontend Build

Then we build the component library, routing, i18n setup, forms, and authentication layer in Next.js—each component tested against the live TYPO3 API as we go.

Week 3-6

SEO Migration & QA

Before launch, we import all redirects, validate every URL, run Lighthouse audits, do cross-browser testing, and run a side-by-side content comparison against the original site.

Week 6-7

Cutover & Post-Launch Support

Cutover is a DNS switch with zero-downtime deployment. After that, you get 30 days of monitoring, bug fixes, and editor training on the new preview workflow.

Week 8

Next.jsTYPO3EXT:headlessVercelReactTypeScriptNode.js

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Puedo seguir usando TYPO3 como backend después de migrar a Next.js?

Sí, y ese es precisamente el objetivo. Tus editores siguen trabajando en TYPO3 exactamente como ahora: creando páginas, gestionando contenido y manejando traducciones. La extensión EXT:headless expone todo eso como APIs JSON. Next.js consume esas APIs y se encarga de todo en el frontend. Dos sistemas, separados de forma limpia, sin que ninguno dependa del otro.

¿Qué extensiones de TYPO3 están soportadas en modo headless?

EXT:headless soporta de serie EXT:news, EXT:form, EXT:powermail, EXT:felogin, EXT:gridelements y TYPO3 Solr. Las extensiones personalizadas necesitan anulaciones de TypoScript para exponer sus datos como JSON. Auditamos cada extensión instalada durante el descubrimiento y construimos esos mapeos personalizados donde sea necesario.

¿Cuánto tiempo lleva una migración de TYPO3 a Next.js?

Una migración típica de tamaño medio —de 200 a 500 páginas, varios idiomas, extensiones estándar— tarda entre 6 y 8 semanas. Los sitios más grandes con elementos de contenido personalizados, flujos de formularios complejos o integraciones con Solr pueden requerir entre 10 y 12 semanas. Te damos un plazo fijo durante el scoping, no un rango vago.

¿Se verán afectados mis rankings SEO durante la migración?

Preservamos cada URL, redirección, etiqueta canonical, atributo hreflang y bloque de datos estructurados de tu sitio actual. La generación estática de Next.js suele mejorar notablemente los Core Web Vitals, lo que tiende a beneficiar los rankings. Realizamos auditorías antes y después para detectar cualquier discrepancia antes del cutover.

¿Qué versión de TYPO3 necesito para el modo headless?

EXT:headless requiere TYPO3 v9.5 o superior, aunque recomendamos encarecidamente la v11 o v12 para obtener el mejor soporte de APIs y cobertura de seguridad a largo plazo. ¿Tienes una versión anterior? Podemos incorporar una actualización del core de TYPO3 al proyecto de migración con un alcance ajustado.

¿Dónde se despliega el frontend de Next.js?

Normalmente desplegamos en Vercel por su caché en el edge, rollbacks instantáneos y despliegues de vista previa integrados. Tu backend de TYPO3 permanece donde está; los dos sistemas se comunican a través de APIs HTTPS. Si tus requisitos de cumplimiento exigen AWS, Netlify o infraestructura Node.js autoalojada, también podemos trabajar con eso.

TYPO3 to Next.js Migration from $12,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included.

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