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🚀 Joomla!® Component Builder now works

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The Component Builder for Joomla!® that is highly advanced, truly able to build extremely complex components in a fraction of the time.
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The Most Advanced Joomla!® Component Builder ever! Ultimate!

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JCB Brings to You

  • 🧠 Super Powers: Namespaced PHP classes (interfaces, traits, abstracts, finals) managed from GUI
  • 🔌 Joomla Powers: Dynamic Joomla class resolution via JPK placeholders per Joomla version
  • 🧱 Compile native Components, Plugins & Modules in one unified workflow
  • 🔀 Multi-version support (J3, J4, J5, J6-ready) with per-version compilation
  • 🚦 Conditional logic injection in models, views, controllers
  • 🧬 Reusable Admin Views across multiple components
  • 🧠 Dynamic GET Builder for visual cross-table queries
  • 🔄 Round-trip code integration with file-to-database inserts/replaces
  • 🧬 Custom Admin Views with full MVC override power
  • 🧩 Site Views supporting public display of data with custom logic
  • 🔗 Model linking between views using subforms and dynamic selectors
  • 🧩 Shared field reuse across views and components
  • 📥 Drag & Drop field mapping for layout and logic assignment
  • 🎯 Dynamic Field Visibility conditions via GUI
  • 📦 Independent packaging of views and logic for reuse
  • 🧾 Insert/Replace tags for persistent file overrides
  • 🗃️ PHP & HTML custom code injection via placeholder system
  • 🛠️ Automatic file synchronization on rebuild
  • 🧮 Reverse string parser to restore lang strings back to natural text
  • 📋 Line tracking to see where code was compiled from
  • 💾 Auto language string export from templates & views
  • 🧰 Helper classes and static utilities included by default
  • 🧱 Demo component blueprints for rapid prototyping
  • 🔁 Blueprint export/import via JSON or Git sync
  • 📎 Shared field types serve as field templates
  • 🎛️ Custom scripting per field on get/save
  • 🔀 Field view-type override (admin vs config)
  • 🔐 ACL per view, field, item
  • 🧾 Field-based Joomla config generation
  • 📘 Support for Joomla categories/tags/custom fields
  • ⚙️ CLI-ready components with native terminal support
  • 🛰️ Joomla Update Server integration
  • 🧪 Version-aware language string compilation
  • 📤 Remote publishing to custom repo update streams
  • 🎨 Layout builder with inline layout reusability
  • 📁 Template builder with overrides
  • 🧠 Snippets GUI for code blocks linked to layouts/templates
  • 🧬 Field injection points in layout/template snippets
  • 🔁 Dynamic reload on selection change via JavaScript binding
  • 📄 Inline help descriptions from config
  • 🖱️ Custom admin menus and dashboard menu builders
  • 🌐 Excel import/export for language strings
  • 📁 Per-field language control
  • 🧾 Language string auto-indexing
  • 🔁 Reverse engineering of language constants
  • 🧠 Per-Joomla-version lang key mapping
  • 🔧 GUI to rewrite or update lang string context
  • 📤 Push component to Git repo
  • 🔄 Auto-compile and auto-tag packages
  • 🎁 Auto-generated changelog from commits
  • 📬 Component update URLs via GUI settings
  • 🏷️ Version-aware build ID assignment
  • ⚡ Under-30-second build time on large components
  • 📦 Memory-optimized ZIP builder
  • 📃 Build summary report after compilation
  • 🔧 Universal reusable code blocks (inject anywhere by key)
  • 🪄 Update detection & visual diffing on reused code
  • 🧬 Multi-context custom code binding
  • 📄 Dynamic placeholder variable injection
  • 🔁 Nested custom code support
  • 🔥 Advanced compiler hooks per code block
  • 🧠 Round-trip tag tracking in PHP/HTML
  • 💡 GUI-defined rules (required, unique, nullable)
  • 🛡️ Database schema auto-generated from field settings
  • 📄 Per-display field rendering config (list/edit)
  • 📊 Design complex joins from GUI
  • 🔄 Reusable query sets
  • 🧾 Where/group/order statements supported
  • 🔧 Switch between list/item GETs
  • 🛡️ Output Joomla-native query builder logic
  • 🧠 Snippets = reusable HTML blocks
  • 🧩 Layouts = reusable PHP render templates
  • 🖼️ Templates = page-level views linked to custom admin/site views
  • 📦 Libraries = JS/CSS assets linked to UI
  • 🌐 CDN/local toggle for library delivery
  • 🔧 Repository push/pull/reset workflow
  • 📥 Init snippets/layouts/templates via GUI
  • 📑 Markdown + PHPDoc docblock support
  • 🔄 Update version history logs per entity
  • 📘 Auto-documented component structure
  • 📈 Track last build, size, line count, field count
  • 📁 Total file/folder/line counters

Just Imagine

freedom
  • Your Component Back-end can be more advanced then the Joomla Article Manager.
  • Your Code as Perfectly Unified to the strict Joomla Standards.
  • Adding Custom Scripting almost anywhere in the MVC structure.
  • Import and export feature to all backend-views.
  • Batch copy and move/update feature for all backend-views.
  • History tracking per/change made on any back-end item.
  • Dynamic field control, to show and hide fields in amazing ways.
  • Front-end freedom of design that allows for any library to be used.
  • This and much much more are all possible with this component builder!

You are in Control

continuity
  • You can change the licensing template for your components.
  • You can change/improve existing field types and add more.
  • Line numbers to show where in compiler was the code build.
  • You can improve the component since all code are open-source.
  • You need only pay us once and use the component forever.
  • You can dynamically add internal help structures to all component.
  • There is no limitations on how big or how much you want to build (server limitation only).
  • This is a complete factory kind of component that functions like a deployment hub.
  • This and much much more are all possible with this component builder!

The Real Deal

Unexpected Success

We have components on github that is highly advanced and was fully build with this Joomla Component Builder. So you can take a look at the code structures and on top of that you can also install the component builder with the Demo component in it as a examples of how it gets build with JCB.

Building Component Builder

Component Builder builds itself, this is amazing!!! Now you can get this amazing tool with itself as a demo component to see how we structurally were able to build Component builder with Component builder.
The Absolute Wow factor!!!

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Quick Access Links

🚀 Main JCB Engine & Source Code

Component Builder (Main Repo)

📦 Download the JCB Installer Package

Stable Releases
Nightly J6 J5 J4

🎓 Tutorials and Learning Resources

Video Series (EN)
German Tutorials

📚 Documentation and Developer Wiki

Explore the Wiki Explore JCB Feature Docs

🐞 Report Bugs or Request Features

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🧠 Ask or Answer Questions

GitHub Discussions

🌐 Monitor the Network & APIs

Service Status
JCB API
SuperPowers API

🤝 How to Contribute

Contribution Guide

💯 Free & Open Source

Always Will Be

JCB is like Linux for Joomla developers — powerful, transparent, and community-driven.

All features are unlocked and fully open source, hosted on GitHub.

No subscriptions. No paywalls. Just freedom to build.

🧰 Install JCB Locally

Full Privacy, Full Control

Install Joomla Component Builder (JCB) like any Joomla extension — right on your own site.

Develop locally or on a private server, with no cloud ties or data sharing.

Your code stays yours. Always.

🎁 Built-in Demo

Smart Boilerplating

Every fresh JCB install now includes a fully working demo component.

Explore real-world field types, views, templates, and packaging — all preconfigured.

Use it as a learning tool or blueprint to kickstart your next project.

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