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title: Introducing Phenomic 1.0.0 first alpha
author: bloodyowl
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## A complete rewrite

Phenomic is a static website generator that has been in v0.\* for quite a while
now. As we wanted to release a v1, we took some time to think about what needed
to change, and what we could do better for our stable API.

A few months ago, we started the reflexion. As our GitHub issues were mainly
bikeshedding and user-specific needs, we realised that we were trying to bring
too much in our core module, which was preventing us from moving forward to
where we wanted to push Phenomic.

We then started prototyping a new version in consideration of what we want it to
be capable of:

- Use an HTTP API as content source, which would enable us to build static
  versions of multiple CMS
- Have a powerful querying API
- Build scalable static web apps
- Handle pagination

Therefore we decided to make a simple core API and put the specifics in plugins.
Phenomic for now has a default preset with Webpack and React, but opens the way
for any other bundler or UI library (ping us if you'd like to implement Rollup,
Vue or Angular).

Today we're officially releasing the first alpha of our 1.0.0 API, and we'd be
really grateful for your feedback while we finalise the last details and the
docs.

Be sure to check out ["Getting Started"](https://phenomic.io/en/tutorials/)
page!

You can have a look on
[this website source](https://github.com/phenomic/phenomic/tree/master/website)
and
[learn how to get started](https://github.com/phenomic/phenomic/tree/master/packages/preset-react-app/docs/getting-started/README.md).

We hope you'll like this release!
