Custom developer portals
Deploy a fully custom developer portal on top of self-hosted Mintlify, designed and built by Mintlify and delivered through versioned releases.
For some platforms, documentation is one surface of a larger product. The product might be an API marketplace, a partner portal, or a developer experience with sign-in, credentials, and support built in. Mintlify supports those use cases by designing, building, and maintaining a custom presentation layer that replaces your existing portal front end. Your team authors content through the Mintlify editor or a Git-backed workflow.
The portal integrates with your existing APIs, gateway, and downstream systems, which remain owned and operated by your team.
Features
Section titled “Features”| Feature | What ships | Backed by |
|---|---|---|
| Custom presentation layer | A full front-end application in your design system, deployed inside your environment | Mintlify, alongside the self-hosted platform |
| Product and catalog pages | Marketplace, product discovery, and documentation surfaces | Content maintained on Mintlify |
| Sign-in | Authenticated sessions across the portal | Your identity provider |
| Applications and credentials | Application registration and credential management | Your backend APIs |
| Subscriptions | Product and plan subscriptions | Your backend APIs |
| Profiles and notifications | User profiles and notification centers | Your backend APIs |
| Support | Support ticket creation and tracking | Your backend APIs |
| Search | Login-aware search scoped to what the user can access | Mintlify platform |
| Personalized content | Entitlement and group-based filtering applied server-side at render time, so users only see the products and pages they have access to | Mintlify platform and your identity provider |
| Ongoing releases | Versioned releases with upgrade guides, the same operating model as any self-hosted deployment | Mintlify |
Authoring flow
Section titled “Authoring flow”The custom front end doesn't affect how content gets written. Maintain content with the editor or a local Git-based workflow. Every change flows through your repository's review process with a full audit trail, and publishing triggers builds that update the portal automatically. Content changes do not require a front-end deploy.
Architecture
Section titled “Architecture”The custom presentation layer integrates with the self-hosted Mintlify platform for content, search, and personalization; your API gateway for applications, subscriptions, and support; and your identity provider for authentication.
The custom presentation layer and Mintlify platform run inside your network boundary, using your cluster, data stores, and observability stack, with no third-party egress. Your downstream systems of record remain unchanged; the portal accesses them through your existing APIs.
How the engagement runs
Section titled “How the engagement runs”Scope and design
Your account team maps the portal surfaces, your design system, and the backend APIs the portal consumes, and agrees on an integration contract with your platform team.
Public surfaces first
The engagement typically implements your design system and public content surfaces first, so you can validate the experience against your existing portal before cutover.
Authenticated surfaces
Sign-in, credential management, subscriptions, and other logged-in experiences follow, integrated with your identity provider and backend APIs.
Search, personalization, and AI
Login-aware search and server-side personalization complete the core experience. Optional AI features remain disabled until your security or AI governance team approves them.
Throughout, your team reviews releases in non-production environments and controls every cutover.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”Talk to your account team
Scope a custom portal engagement and plan your launch.
Self-host
The deployment foundation a custom portal runs on.