Prerequisites
- A DFRNT Hub account
- An API key (get one)
What you'll achieve By the end of this guide, you will have connected to DFRNT Hub programmatically.
TerminusCMS is now DFRNT Hub TerminusCMS has been renamed to DFRNT Hub. All features described on this page are available at dfrnt.com. The TerminusDB open source database remains unchanged.
Cloud hosted TerminusDB is available from https://dfrnt.com that is maintaining TerminusDB since 2025. Register an account or sign up if you haven't already, to get started fast.
DFRNT includes a full high quality modeller, visualisation and git-for-data support for all supported TerminusDB features. It enables a "closed-world" document-oriented knowledge graph with a datalog with variable unification, for a precise and small subset of JSON-LD-like document representation and advanced knowledge graph querying.
DFRNT is offered as a SaaS platform, complete with the TerminusDB data product API and where API tokens can be generated for your cloud instance in the settings section. It naturally supports a graphical UI for git-for-data actions like clone, push, pull, merge, rebase etc.
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Next steps
You're connected to DFRNT Hub. Now start building:
- Get your API key — mint a token to authenticate programmatically
- TypeScript quickstart — build, branch, and query with the JS client
- HTTP Documents API — CRUD operations using curl or any HTTP client