Joomla Component Builder (JCB)
This is a professional-grade Joomla 5.x component, created with Joomla Component Builder (JCB)—a uniquely advanced development engine for building and maintaining complete Joomla extensions.
🎥 Original... Quick Hello World Demo, yes JCB has been around for over a decade.
JCB generates native Joomla components, plugins, and modules for Joomla 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x — and is already prepared for Joomla 6. Every compiled project is tailored for the specific version without needing backward compatibility plugins. With integrated version-aware compiling, smart boilerplating, and Git-powered project syncing, JCB is much more than a code generator—it's a full-stack development pipeline for Joomla extensions.
You can install this component easily. The latest release (5.1.1-beta2) is available on Releases and updated frequently with full source access.
Upgrades are seamless through Joomla’s built-in extension update mechanism.
Here are just some of the key powers JCB brings:
- 🔁 Bi-Directional IDE Sync – Fetch custom logic from compiled projects and reintegrate on rebuild.
- 🧱 Build Joomla Components, Plugins, and Modules – Fully native and independently compiled.
- 🧠 Superpowers (PHP Class Builder) – Create namespaced abstract, interface, and trait-based PHP classes visually.
- 🔌 Joomla Powers – Intelligent Joomla class referencing via dynamic placeholders (JPKs) that adapt to Joomla versions.
- 🗃️ Smart Boilerplating – Start fast with 6+ curated demo blueprints for instant use or customization.
- 🔂 Round-Trip Development – Add, update, and persist changes across compiled code using insert/replace tags.
- 🔐 Field Types Engine – Blueprint reusable Joomla-native fields with constraints, security, DB structure, and logic.
- 🧬 Admin Views, Custom Admin Views & Site Views – Fine-grained design for structured or dynamic backend/front-end UIs.
- 🧮 Dynamic GET Builder – Advanced visual query designer for cross-table, filter-rich, deeply joined SQL fetches.
- 💡 Snippets, Layouts, Templates & Libraries – Shareable GUI-linked modules for reusable HTML/CSS/JS integration.
- 🧰 Custom Code System – Write logic once and reuse anywhere; full support for HTML & PHP placeholders and tracking.
- 🛠️ Multi-Version Compilation – Compile version-specific code for J3, J4, J5 without compatibility bloat.
- 📦 Package Management – Export/import blueprints, version control builds, sync with Git, and distribute clean packages.
- 🖥️ CLI Integration – Build commands natively via terminal using Joomla's CLI runner.
- 🌐 Update Server Support – Integrate custom update mechanisms for extensions post-deployment.
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- 🧠 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
- 📊 Dynamic dashboards built via custom admin view chart helpers
- 🔗 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
- 🗂️ Smart override detection and conflict management
- 🔍 Compiler debug tracking
- ✍️ Dynamic use-statement generation with alias auto-resolving
- 💾 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
- 🧪 Test-friendly compiler mode for internal checking
- 🧩 Template-based file creation with dynamic variables
- 📚 Smart template merging for updates
- 🚧 Field definitions drive DB schema
- 🎛️ Custom scripting per field on get/save
- 🔀 Field view-type override (admin vs config)
- 🛡️ Token integration via Joomla methods
- 🔐 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
- 📚 Custom documentation sections linked into generated components
- 🧬 Field injection points in layout/template snippets
- 🔁 Dynamic reload on selection change via JavaScript binding
- 📦 Reusable custom admin view templates
- 🧠 JS callback logic on field events
- 📄 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
- 🗂️ Blueprints stored and versioned by metadata
- 🎁 Auto-generated changelog from commits
- 🔐 Signed zip packaging supported
- 📬 Component update URLs via GUI settings
- 🏷️ Version-aware build ID assignment
- ⚡ Under-30-second build time on large components
- 📦 Memory-optimized ZIP builder
- 🔁 Repeatable fields via subform templates
- 💥 Fail-safe error protection and rollback
- 🔍 Detailed compiler logs with stack trace and UUIDs
- 📃 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
- 📜 Learn more about this here
- 🧬 Field types define templates and data types
- 💡 GUI-defined rules (required, unique, nullable)
- 🧠 Save/get hooks per field
- 🛡️ Database schema auto-generated from field settings
- 📄 Per-display field rendering config (list/edit)
- 🧩 Create dynamic models with modals/selectors
- 🧠 Conditional JS & CSS per field
- 📊 Design complex joins from GUI
- 🧠 Multiple GETs per view
- 🔄 Reusable query sets
- 🧾 Where/group/order statements supported
- 📃 Auto model method generation
- 🔧 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
- 📁 Media folder injection with override support
- 🔧 Repository push/pull/reset workflow
- 📥 Init snippets/layouts/templates via GUI
- 📄 Per-entity README auto-generation
- 📑 Markdown + PHPDoc docblock support
- 🧾 Internal documentation tables
- 🔄 Update version history logs per entity
- 🧠 Field reference mapping table output
- 📘 Auto-documented component structure
- 📈 Track last build, size, line count, field count
- 🔄 Compare current vs previous builds
- 🧠 Export component metadata as JSON
- 🗃️ Stats per model/view
- 📁 Total file/folder/line counters
- 🔽 Download: Stable Releases · Nightly J5 · Nightly J4
- 📥 Install: Use Joomla’s extension manager
- 🎓 Learn: Tutorials · How to Install Demo Blueprints
- 💬 GitHub Discussions
- 🐛 Report Issues
- 📚 JCB Wiki
- 👨🏫 Video Tutorials
- 🇩🇪 German Series
- 🔔 Telegram Groups · Announcements
- 📶 Status
- 🛡️ Security Reports
JCB is developed by developers for developers. Its purpose is to democratize high-performance Joomla development by empowering everyone — from solo builders to large teams — to work with clean, scalable, maintainable, and versionable code. This isn’t a template generator — it’s a full-scale extension engineering platform.
- Company: Vast Development Method
- Author: Llewellyn van der Merwe
- Component: Component Builder
- Created: 30th April, 2015 · Last Build: 19th June, 2025 · Version: 5.1.1-beta2
- License: GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt · Copyright: Copyright (C) 2015 Vast Development Method. All rights reserved.
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