fix(richtext-lexical): remove unused packages from package.json

BREAKING: `ValidationError` now requires the `global` or `collection`
slug, as well as an `errors` property. The actual errors are no longer
at the top-level.

.eslintignore

@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 playwright.config.ts
 jest.config.js
 test/live-preview/next-app
+tsconfig.tsbuildinfo

.eslintrc.cjs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ module.exports = {
       rules: {
         'payload/no-jsx-import-statements': 'warn',
         'payload/no-relative-monorepo-imports': 'error',
+        'payload/no-imports-from-exports-dir': 'error',
       },
     },
     {
@@ -30,6 +31,12 @@ module.exports = {
         'perfectionist/sort-objects': 'off',
       },
     },
+    {
+      files: ['templates/vercel-postgres/**'],
+      rules: {
+        'no-restricted-exports': 'off',
+      },
+    },
     {
       files: ['package.json', 'tsconfig.json'],
       rules: {

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -3,22 +3,19 @@
 ### Package Exports ###
 /**/exports/ @denolfe @jmikrut
 
-### Adapters ###
+### Packages ###
 /packages/richtext-*/ @AlessioGr
-
-### Plugins ###
 /packages/plugin-cloud*/ @denolfe
+/packages/email-*/ @denolfe
+/packages/storage-*/ @denolfe
+/packages/create-payload-app/ @denolfe
+/packages/eslint-*/ @denolfe
 
 ### Templates ###
 /templates/ @jacobsfletch @denolfe
 
-### Misc ###
-/packages/create-payload-app/ @denolfe
-/packages/eslint-*/ @denolfe
-
 ### Build Files ###
 /**/package.json @denolfe
-
 /tsconfig.json @denolfe
 /**/tsconfig*.json @denolfe
 

.github/actions/setup/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+name: Setup node and pnpm
+description: Configure the Node.js and pnpm versions
+
+inputs:
+  node-version:
+    description: 'The Node.js version to use'
+    required: true
+    default: 18.20.2
+  pnpm-version:
+    description: 'The pnpm version to use'
+    required: true
+    default: 8.15.7
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    # https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1187
+    - name: tune linux network
+      shell: bash
+      run: sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off rx off
+
+    - name: Setup Node@${{ inputs.node-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      with:
+        node-version: ${{ inputs.node-version }}
+
+    - name: Install pnpm
+      uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3
+      with:
+        version: ${{ inputs.pnpm-version }}
+        run_install: false
+
+    - name: Get pnpm store directory
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo "STORE_PATH=$(pnpm store path --silent)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+    - name: Setup pnpm cache
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
+      with:
+        path: ${{ env.STORE_PATH }}
+        key: pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
+        restore-keys: |
+          pnpm-store-
+          pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
+
+    - shell: bash
+      run: pnpm install

.github/workflows/label-author.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+name: label-author
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened]
+  issues:
+    types: [opened]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pull-requests: write
+  issues: write
+
+jobs:
+  debug-context:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: View context attributes
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        with:
+          script: console.log(context)
+
+  label-created-by:
+    name: Label pr/issue on opening
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Tag with 'created-by'
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        if: github.event.action == 'opened'
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          script: |
+            const type = context.payload.pull_request ? 'pull_request' : 'issue';
+            const association = context.payload[type].author_association;
+            let label = ''
+            if (association === 'MEMBER' || association === 'OWNER') {
+              label = 'created-by: Payload team';
+            } else if (association === 'CONTRIBUTOR') {
+              label = 'created-by: Contributor';
+            }
+
+            if (!label) return;
+
+            github.rest.issues.addLabels({
+              issue_number: context.issue.number,
+              owner: context.repo.owner,
+              repo: context.repo.repo,
+              labels: [label],
+            });
+            console.log('Added created-by: Payload team label');

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@ name: build
 
 on:
   pull_request:
-    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - reopened
+      - synchronize
   push:
-    branches: ['main', 'beta']
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - beta
 
 concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  # <workflow_name>-<branch_name>-<true || commit_sha if branch is protected>
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.ref_protected && github.sha || ''}}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
@@ -49,6 +55,51 @@ jobs:
           echo "needs_build: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.needs_build }}"
           echo "templates: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.templates }}"
 
+  lint:
+    if: >
+      github.event_name == 'pull_request' && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, 'no-lint') && !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, 'skip-lint')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      # https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1187
+      - name: tune linux network
+        run: sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off rx off
+
+      - name: Setup Node@${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Install pnpm
+        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3
+        with:
+          version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
+          run_install: false
+
+      - name: Get pnpm store directory
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "STORE_PATH=$(pnpm store path --silent)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Setup pnpm cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        timeout-minutes: 720
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.STORE_PATH }}
+          key: pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            pnpm-store-
+            pnpm-store-${{ hashFiles('**/pnpm-lock.yaml') }}
+
+      - run: pnpm install
+      - name: Lint staged
+        run: |
+          git diff --name-only --diff-filter=d origin/${GITHUB_BASE_REF}...${GITHUB_SHA}
+          npx lint-staged --diff="origin/${GITHUB_BASE_REF}...${GITHUB_SHA}"
+
   build:
     needs: changes
     if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.needs_build == 'true' }}
@@ -239,7 +290,8 @@ jobs:
         suite:
           - _community
           - access-control
-          - admin
+          - admin__e2e__1
+          - admin__e2e__2
           - auth
           - field-error-states
           - fields-relationship
@@ -248,9 +300,17 @@ jobs:
           - fields__collections__Array
           - fields__collections__Relationship
           - fields__collections__RichText
-          - fields__collections__Lexical
+          - fields__collections__Lexical__e2e__main
+          - fields__collections__Lexical__e2e__blocks
+          - fields__collections__Date
+          - fields__collections__Number
+          - fields__collections__Point
+          - fields__collections__Tabs
+          - fields__collections__Text
+          - fields__collections__Upload
           - live-preview
           - localization
+          - i18n
           - plugin-cloud-storage
           - plugin-form-builder
           - plugin-nested-docs
@@ -295,7 +355,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Cache Playwright Browsers for Playwright's Version
         id: cache-playwright-browsers
-        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
         with:
           path: ~/.cache/ms-playwright
           key: playwright-browsers-${{ env.PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION }}
@@ -368,13 +428,12 @@ jobs:
           cd templates/blank-3.0
           cp .env.example .env
           ls -la
-          pnpm add ./*.tgz
-          pnpm install --ignore-workspace
+          pnpm add ./*.tgz --ignore-workspace
+          pnpm install --ignore-workspace --no-frozen-lockfile
           cat package.json
           pnpm run build
 
   tests-type-generation:
-    if: false # This should be replaced with gen on a real Payload project
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: build
 
@@ -441,3 +500,49 @@ jobs:
           yarn install
           yarn build
           yarn generate:types
+
+  generated-templates:
+    needs: build
+    if: false # Needs to pull in tgz files from build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      # https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1187
+      - name: tune linux network
+        run: sudo ethtool -K eth0 tx off rx off
+
+      - name: Setup Node@${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Install pnpm
+        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3
+        with:
+          version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
+          run_install: false
+
+      - name: Restore build
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        timeout-minutes: 10
+        with:
+          path: ./*
+          key: ${{ github.sha }}-${{ github.run_number }}
+
+      - name: Build all generated templates
+        run: pnpm tsx ./scripts/build-generated-templates.ts
+
+  all-green:
+    name: All Green
+    if: always()
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs:
+      - lint
+      - build
+      - tests-unit
+      - tests-int
+      - tests-e2e
+
+    steps:
+      - if: ${{ always() && (contains(needs.*.result, 'failure') || contains(needs.*.result, 'cancelled')) }}
+        run: exit 1

.github/workflows/release-canary.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+name: release-canary
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    branches:
+      - beta
+
+env:
+  NODE_VERSION: 18.20.2
+  PNPM_VERSION: 8.15.7
+  DO_NOT_TRACK: 1 # Disable Turbopack telemetry
+  NEXT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED: 1 # Disable Next telemetry
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Setup
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup
+        with:
+          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
+          pnpm-version: ${{ env.PNPM_VERSION }}
+      - name: Load npm token
+        run: echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=$NPM_TOKEN" >> ~/.npmrc
+        env:
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Canary release script
+        # dry run hard-coded to true for testing and no npm token provided
+        run: pnpm tsx ./scripts/publish-canary.ts
+        env:
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+          NPM_CONFIG_PROVENANCE: true

.gitignore

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ test-results
 .localstack
 .turbo
 
+meta_client.json
+meta_server.json
+meta_index.json
+meta_shared.json
+
 .turbo
 
 # Ignore test directory media folder/files

.idea/payload.iml

@@ -47,6 +47,34 @@
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/templates" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/test/.swc" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/versions" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/richtext-slate/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/richtext-slate/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/email-nodemailer/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/email-nodemailer/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/email-resend/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/email-resend/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/live-preview-vue/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/live-preview-vue/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/payload/.swc" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/plugin-form-builder/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/plugin-relationship-object-ids/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/plugin-relationship-object-ids/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/plugin-stripe/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-azure/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-azure/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-gcs/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-gcs/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-s3/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-s3/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-uploadthing/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-uploadthing/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-vercel-blob/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/storage-vercel-blob/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/translations/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/translations/dist" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/ui/.swc" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/ui/.turbo" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/packages/ui/dist" />
     </content>
     <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
     <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />

.idea/runConfigurations/_template__of_JavaScriptTestRunnerJest.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<component name="ProjectRunConfigurationManager">
+  <configuration default="true" type="JavaScriptTestRunnerJest">
+    <node-interpreter value="project" />
+    <node-options value="--experimental-vm-modules --no-deprecation" />
+    <envs />
+    <scope-kind value="ALL" />
+    <method v="2" />
+  </configuration>
+</component>

.prettierignore

@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@
 tsconfig.json
 packages/payload/*.js
 packages/payload/*.d.ts
+payload-types.ts
+tsconfig.tsbuildinfo

.swcrc

@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@
       "syntax": "typescript",
       "tsx": true,
       "dts": true
+    },
+    "transform": {
+      "react": {
+        "runtime": "automatic",
+        "pragmaFrag": "React.Fragment",
+        "throwIfNamespace": true,
+        "development": false,
+        "useBuiltins": true
+      }
     }
   },
   "module": {

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@
       "request": "launch",
       "type": "node-terminal"
     },
+    {
+      "command": "node --no-deprecation test/dev.js storage-uploadthing",
+      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
+      "name": "Uploadthing",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "type": "node-terminal",
+      "envFile": "${workspaceFolder}/test/storage-uploadthing/.env"
+    },
     {
       "command": "node --no-deprecation test/dev.js live-preview",
       "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
@@ -103,6 +111,13 @@
       "request": "launch",
       "type": "node-terminal"
     },
+    {
+      "command": "node --no-deprecation test/dev.js field-error-states",
+      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
+      "name": "Run Dev Field Error States",
+      "request": "launch",
+      "type": "node-terminal"
+    },
     {
       "command": "pnpm run test:int live-preview",
       "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -41,5 +41,9 @@
       "source.fixAll.eslint": "explicit"
     }
   },
-  "files.insertFinalNewline": true
+  "files.insertFinalNewline": true,
+  "jestrunner.jestCommand": "pnpm exec cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=\"--experimental-vm-modules --no-deprecation\" node 'node_modules/jest/bin/jest.js'",
+  "jestrunner.debugOptions": {
+    "runtimeArgs": ["--experimental-vm-modules", "--no-deprecation"]
+  }
 }

app/(payload)/layout.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY PAYLOAD. */
 import configPromise from '@payload-config'
 import { RootLayout } from '@payloadcms/next/layouts'
+// import '@payloadcms/ui/styles.css' // Uncomment this line if `@payloadcms/ui` in `tsconfig.json` points to `/ui/dist` instead of `/ui/src`
 /* DO NOT MODIFY IT BECAUSE IT COULD BE REWRITTEN AT ANY TIME. */
 import React from 'react'
 

docs/access-control/collections.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Collection Access Control
 label: Collections
 order: 20
 desc: With Collection-level Access Control you can define which users can create, read, update or delete Collections.
-keywords: collections, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: collections, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 You can define Collection-level Access Control within each Collection's `access` property. All Access Control functions accept one `args` argument.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ If a Collection supports [`Authentication`](/docs/authentication/overview), the
 **Example Collection config:**
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload';
 
 export const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: "posts",
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ Returns a boolean which allows/denies access to the `create` request.
 
 **Available argument properties:**
 
-| Option     | Description                                                                |
-| ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**  | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
-| **`data`** | The data passed to create the document with.                               |
+| Option     | Description                                                                                                                  |
+| ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`req`**  | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`data`** | The data passed to create the document with.                                                                                 |
 
 **Example:**
 
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ Read access functions can return a boolean result or optionally return a [query
 
 | Option    | Description                                                                |
 | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`** | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`** | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`id`**  | `id` of document requested, if within `findByID`                           |
 
 **Example:**
 
 ```ts
-import { Access } from 'payload/config'
+import type { Access } from 'payload'
 
 const canReadPage: Access = ({ req: { user } }) => {
   // allow authenticated users
@@ -111,14 +111,14 @@ Update access functions can return a boolean result or optionally return a [quer
 
 | Option     | Description                                                                |
 | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**  | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`**  | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`id`**   | `id` of document requested to update                                       |
 | **`data`** | The data passed to update the document with                                |
 
 **Example:**
 
 ```ts
-import { Access } from 'payload/config'
+import type { Access } from 'payload'
 
 const canUpdateUser: Access = ({ req: { user }, id }) => {
   // allow users with a role of 'admin'
@@ -138,13 +138,13 @@ Similarly to the Update function, returns a boolean or a [query constraint](/doc
 
 | Option    | Description                                                                                         |
 | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`** | The Express `request` object with additional `user` property, which is the currently logged in user |
+| **`req`** | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object with additional `user` property, which is the currently logged in user |
 | **`id`**  | `id` of document requested to delete                                                                |
 
 **Example:**
 
 ```ts
-import { Access } from 'payload/config'
+import type { Access } from 'payload'
 
 const canDeleteCustomer: Access = async ({ req, id }) => {
   if (!id) {
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ If the Collection is [used to access the Payload Admin panel](/docs/admin/overvi
 
 | Option    | Description                                                                |
 | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`** | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`** | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 
 ### Unlock
 
@@ -183,4 +183,4 @@ Determines which users can [unlock](/docs/authentication/operations#unlock) othe
 
 | Option    | Description                                                                |
 | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`** | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`** | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |

docs/access-control/fields.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Field-level Access Control
 label: Fields
 order: 30
 desc: Field-level Access Control is specified within a field's config, and allows you to define which users can create, read or update Fields.
-keywords: fields, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: fields, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Field Access Control is specified with functions inside a field's config. All field-level Controls return a boolean value to allow or deny access for the specified operation. No field-level Access Controls support returning query constraints. All Access Control functions accept one `args` argument.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Field Access Control is specified with functions inside a field's config. All fi
 **Example Collection config:**
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload';
 
 export const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'posts',
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to set a field's value when
 
 | Option            | Description                                                                |
 | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**         | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`**         | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`data`**        | The full data passed to create the document.                               |
 | **`siblingData`** | Immediately adjacent field data passed to create the document.             |
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Returns a boolean which allows or denies the ability to read a field's value. If
 
 | Option            | Description                                                                |
 | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**         | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`**         | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`id`**          | `id` of the document being read                                            |
 | **`doc`**         | The full document data.                                                    |
 | **`siblingData`** | Immediately adjacent field data of the document being read.                |
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If `false` is returned and you attempt to update the field's value, the operatio
 
 | Option            | Description                                                                |
 | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**         | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`**         | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`id`**          | `id` of the document being updated                                         |
 | **`data`**        | The full data passed to update the document.                               |
 | **`siblingData`** | Immediately adjacent field data passed to update the document with.        |

docs/access-control/globals.mdx

@@ -3,13 +3,11 @@ title: Globals Access Control
 label: Globals
 order: 40
 desc: Global-level Access Control is specified within each Global's `access` property and allows you to define which users can read or update Globals.
-keywords: globals, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: globals, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 You can define Global-level Access Control within each Global's `access` property. All Access Control functions accept one `args` argument.
 
-\*\*Available argument properties:
-
 ## Available Controls
 
 | Function                | Allows/Denies Access                   |
@@ -20,7 +18,7 @@ You can define Global-level Access Control within each Global's `access` propert
 **Example Global config:**
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload'
 
 const Header: GlobalConfig = {
   slug: 'header',
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ Returns a boolean result or optionally a [query constraint](/docs/queries/overvi
 
 | Option    | Description                                                                |
 | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`** | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`** | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 
 ### Update
 
@@ -57,5 +55,5 @@ Returns a boolean result or optionally a [query constraint](/docs/queries/overvi
 
 | Option     | Description                                                                |
 | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`req`**  | The Express `request` object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
+| **`req`**  | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object containing the currently authenticated `user` |
 | **`data`** | The data passed to update the global with.                                 |

docs/access-control/overview.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Access Control
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: Payload makes it simple to define and manage access control. By declaring roles, you can set permissions and restrict what your users can interact with.
-keywords: overview, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: overview, access control, permissions, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Access control within Payload is extremely powerful while remaining easy and intuitive to manage. Declaring who should have access to what documents is no more complex than writing a simple JavaScript function that either returns a `boolean` or a [`query`](/docs/queries/overview) constraint to restrict which documents users can interact with.
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Access control within Payload is extremely powerful while remaining easy and int
 - Restricting a `User` to only be able to see their own `Order`(s), but no others
 - Allowing `User`s that belong to a certain `Organization` to access only that `Organization`'s `Resource`s
 
-### Default Settings
+## Default Settings
 
-**By default, all Collections and Globals require that a user is logged in to be able to interact in any way.** The default Access Control function evaluates the `user` from the Express `req` and returns `true` if a user is logged in, and `false` if not.
+**By default, all Collections and Globals require that a user is logged in to be able to interact in any way.** The default Access Control function evaluates the `user` from the `req` and returns `true` if a user is logged in, and `false` if not.
 
 **Default Access function:**
 
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@ const defaultPayloadAccess = ({ req: { user } }) => {
   <strong>Note:</strong>
   <br />
   In the Local API, all Access Control functions are skipped by default, allowing your server to do
-  whatever it needs. But, you can opt back in by setting the option <strong>
+  whatever it needs. But, you can opt back in by setting the option
+  <strong>
     overrideAccess
-  </strong>{' '}
+  </strong>
+  {' '}
   to <strong>false</strong>.
 </Banner>
 
-### Access Control Types
+## Access Control Types
 
 You can manage access within Payload on three different levels:
 
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ You can manage access within Payload on three different levels:
 - [Fields](/docs/access-control/fields)
 - [Globals](/docs/access-control/globals)
 
-### When Access Control is Executed
+## When Access Control is Executed
 
 <Banner type="success">
   <strong>Note:</strong>
@@ -60,17 +62,17 @@ You can manage access within Payload on three different levels:
   your access control is executed.
 </Banner>
 
-#### As you execute operations
+### As you execute operations
 
 When you perform Payload operations like `create`, `read`, `update`, and `delete`, your access control functions will be executed before any changes or operations are completed.
 
-#### Within the Admin UI
+### Within the Admin UI
 
 The Payload Admin UI responds dynamically to the access control that you define. For example, if you restrict editing a `ExampleCollection` to only users that feature a `role` of `admin`, the Payload Admin UI will **hide** the `ExampleCollection` from the Admin UI entirely. This is super powerful and allows you to control who can do what with your Admin UI.
 
 To accomplish this, Payload ships with an `Access` operation, which is executed when a user logs into the Admin UI. Payload will execute each one of your access control functions, across all collections, globals, and fields, at the top level and return a response that contains a reflection of what the currently authenticated user can do with your application.
 
-### Argument Availability
+## Argument Availability
 
 <Banner type="warning">
   <strong>Important:</strong>

docs/admin/bundlers.mdx

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Bundlers
-label: Bundlers
-order: 60
-desc: Bundlers are used to bundle the code that serves Payload's Admin Panel.
----
-
-Payload has two official bundlers, the [Webpack Bundler](/docs/admin/webpack) and the [Vite Bundler](/docs/admin/vite). You must install a bundler to use the admin panel.
-
-##### Install a bundler
-
-Webpack (recommended):
-
-```text
-yarn add @payloadcms/bundler-webpack
-```
-
-Vite (beta):
-
-```text
-yarn add @payloadcms/bundler-vite
-```
-
-##### Configure the bundler
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import { webpackBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-webpack'
-// import { viteBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-vite'
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  // highlight-start
-  admin: {
-    bundler: webpackBundler(), // or viteBundler()
-  },
-  // highlight-end
-})
-```
-
-### What are bundlers?
-
-At their core, a bundler's main goal is to take a bunch of files and turn them into a few optimized files that you ship to the browser. The admin UI has a root `index.html` entry point, and from there the bundler traverses the dependency tree, bundling all of the files that are required from that point on.
-
-Since the bundled file is sent to the browser, it can't include any server-only code. You will need to remove any server-only code from your admin UI before bundling it. You can learn more about [excluding server code](/docs/admin/excluding-server-code) section.
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  <strong>Using environment variables in the admin UI</strong>
-  <br />
-  Bundles should not contain sensitive information. By default, Payload excludes env variables from
-  the bundle. If you need to use env variables in your payload config, you need to prefix them with
-  `PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_` to make them available to the client-side code.
-</Banner>

docs/admin/customizing-css.mdx

@@ -1,51 +1,65 @@
 ---
 title: Customizing CSS & SCSS
 label: Customizing CSS
-order: 40
-desc: Customize your Payload admin panel further by adding your own CSS or SCSS style sheet to the configuration, powerful theme and design options are waiting for you.
-keywords: admin, css, scss, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+order: 60
+desc: Customize the Payload Admin Panel further by adding your own CSS or SCSS style sheet to the configuration, powerful theme and design options are waiting for you.
+keywords: admin, css, scss, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-### Adding your own CSS / SCSS
+Customizing the Payload [Admin Panel](./overview) through CSS alone is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to customize the look and feel of the dashboard. To allow for this level of customization, Payload:
 
-You can add your own CSS by providing your base Payload config with a path to your own CSS or SCSS. Customize the styling of any part of the Payload dashboard as necessary.
+1. Exposes a [root-level stylesheet](#global-css) for you to easily to inject custom selectors
+1. Provides a [CSS library](#css-library) that can be easily overridden or extended
+1. Uses [BEM naming conventions](http://getbem.com) so that class names are globally accessible
 
-To do so, provide your base Payload config with a path to your own stylesheet. It can be either a CSS or SCSS file.
+To customize the CSS within the Admin UI, determine scope and change you'd like to make, and then add your own CSS or SCSS to the configuration as needed.
 
-**Example in payload.config.js:**
+## Global CSS
 
-```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import path from 'path'
+Global CSS refers to the CSS that is applied to the entire [Admin Panel](./overview). This is where you can have a significant impact to the look and feel of the Admin UI through just a few lines of code.
 
-const config = buildConfig({
-  admin: {
-    css: path.resolve(__dirname, 'relative/path/to/stylesheet.scss'),
-  },
-})
+You can add your own global CSS through the root `custom.scss` file of your app. This file is loaded into the root of the Admin Panel and can be used to inject custom selectors or styles however needed.
+
+Here is an example of how you might target the Dashboard View and change the background color:
+
+```scss
+.dashboard {
+  background-color: red; // highlight-line
+}
 ```
 
-### Overriding built-in styles
-
-To make it as easy as possible for you to override our styles, Payload uses [BEM naming conventions](http://getbem.com/) for all CSS within the Admin UI. If you provide your own CSS, you can override any built-in styles easily.
-
-In addition to adding your own style definitions, you can also override Payload's built-in CSS variables. We use as much as possible behind the scenes, and you can override any of them that you'd like to.
-
-You can find the built-in Payload CSS variables within [`./src/admin/scss/app.scss`](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/payload/src/admin/scss/app.scss) and [`./src/admin/scss/colors.scss`](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/payload/src/admin/scss/colors.scss). The following variables are defined and can be overridden:
-
-- Breakpoints
-- Base color shades (white to black by default)
-- Success / warning / error color shades
-- Theme-specific colors (background, input background, text color, etc.)
-- Elevation colors (used to determine how "bright" something should be when compared to the background)
-- Fonts
-- Horizontal gutter
-
-#### Dark mode
-
 <Banner type="warning">
-  If you're overriding colors or theme elevations, make sure to consider how your changes will
-  affect dark mode.
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  If you are building [Custom Components](./overview), it is best to import your own stylesheets directly into your components, rather than using the global stylesheet. You can continue to use the [CSS library](#css-library) as needed.
 </Banner>
 
-By default, Payload automatically overrides all `--theme-elevation`s and inverts all success / warning / error shades to suit dark mode. We also update some base theme variables like `--theme-bg`, `--theme-text`, etc.
+## CSS Library
+
+To make it as easy as possible for you to override default styles, Payload uses [BEM naming conventions](http://getbem.com/) for all CSS within the Admin UI. If you provide your own CSS, you can override any built-in styles easily, including targeting nested components and their various component states.
+
+You can also override Payload's built-in [CSS Variables](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_custom_properties). These variables are widely consumed by the Admin Panel, so modifying them has a significant impact on the look and feel of the Admin UI.
+
+The following variables are defined and can be overridden:
+
+- [Breakpoints](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/beta/packages/ui/src/scss/queries.scss)
+- [Colors](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/beta/packages/ui/src/scss/colors.scss)
+  - Base color shades (white to black by default)
+  - Success / warning / error color shades
+  - Theme-specific colors (background, input background, text color, etc.)
+  - Elevation colors (used to determine how "bright" something should be when compared to the background)
+- [Sizing](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/beta/packages/ui/src/scss/app.scss)
+  - Horizontal gutter
+  - Transition speeds
+  - Font sizes
+  - Etc.
+
+For an up-to-date, comprehensive list of all available variables, please refer to the [Source Code](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/ui/src/scss).
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Warning:</strong>
+  If you're overriding colors or theme elevations, make sure to consider how [your changes will affect dark mode](#dark-mode).
+</Banner>
+
+#### Dark Mode
+
+Colors are designed to automatically adapt to theme of the [Admin Panel](./overview). By default, Payload automatically overrides all `--theme-elevation` colors and inverts all success / warning / error shades to suit dark mode. We also update some base theme variables like `--theme-bg`, `--theme-text`, etc.

docs/admin/environment-vars.mdx

@@ -1,27 +1,78 @@
 ---
-title: Environment Variables in Admin UI
+title: Environment Variables in the Admin Panel
 label: Environment Variables
 order: 100
 desc: NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN
 ---
 
-## Admin environment vars
+Environment variables are a way to store sensitive information that your application needs to function. This could be anything from API keys to database credentials. Payload allows you to provide environment variables to your [Admin Panel](./overview) that can be accessed by your [Custom Components](./components) and [Custom Endpoints](../rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints).
+
+For security and safety reasons, the Admin Panel not **not** include environment variables in client-side bundle by default. But, Payload provides a mechanism to expose environment variables to the client-side bundle when needed.
 
 <Banner type="warning">
   <strong>Important:</strong>
   <br />
   Be careful about what variables you provide to your client-side code. Analyze every single one to
-  make sure that you're not accidentally leaking anything that an attacker could exploit. Only keys
-  that are safe for anyone to read in plain text should be provided to your Admin panel.
+  make sure that you're not accidentally leaking anything that an outside attacker could exploit. Only keys
+  that are safe for anyone to read in plain text should be provided to your [Admin Panel](./overview).
 </Banner>
 
-By default, `env` variables are **not** provided to the Admin panel for security and safety reasons.
-But, Payload provides you with a way to still provide `env` vars to your frontend code.
+## Client-side Environments
 
-**Payload will automatically supply any present `env` variables that are prefixed with `PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_` directly to the Admin panel.**
+If you are building [Custom Components](./components) that are using Client Components and need to access environment variables from the client-side, you can do so by prefixing your environment variables with `NEXT_PUBLIC_`.
 
 For example, if you've got the following environment variable:
 
-`PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX`
+```bash
+NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+```
 
-This key will automatically be made available to the Payload bundle and can be referenced in your Admin component code as `process.env.PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY`.
+This key will automatically be made available to the client-side Payload bundle and can be referenced in your Custom Component as follows:
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+import React from 'react'
+
+const stripeKey = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY // highlight-line
+
+const MyClientComponent = () => {
+  // do something with the key
+
+  return (
+    <div>
+      My Client Component
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  For more information on how to use environment variables in the [Admin Panel](./overview), see the [Next.js documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/configuring/environment-variables).
+</Banner>
+
+## Server-side Environments
+
+All [Custom Endpoints](../rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints) and [Custom Components](./components) that are Server Components are unaffected by this restriction and can access any environment variables you provide. For example, if you've got the following environment variable:
+
+```bash
+STRIPE_SECRET=sk_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+```
+
+This key will be available to your Server Components as follows:
+
+```tsx
+import React from 'react'
+
+const stripeSecret = process.env.STRIPE_SECRET // highlight-line
+
+const MyServerComponent = async () => {
+  // do something with the secret
+
+  return (
+    <div>
+      My Server Component
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+```

docs/admin/excluding-server-code.mdx

@@ -1,206 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Excluding server-only code from admin UI
-label: Excluding server code
-order: 70
-desc: Learn how to exclude server-only code from the Payload Admin UI bundle
----
-
-Because the Admin Panel browser bundle includes your Payload Config file, files using server-only modules need to be excluded.
-It's common for your config to rely on server only modules to perform logic in access control functions, hooks, and other contexts.
-
-Any file that imports a server-only module such as `fs`, `stripe`, `authorizenet`, `nodemailer`, etc. **cannot** be included in the browser bundle.
-
-#### Example Scenario
-
-Say we have a collection called `Subscriptions` that has a `beforeChange` hook that creates a Stripe subscription whenever a Subscription document is created in Payload.
-
-**Collection config**:
-
-```ts
-// collections/Subscriptions/index.ts
-
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
-import createStripeSubscription from './hooks/createStripeSubscription'
-
-export const Subscription: CollectionConfig = {
-  slug: 'subscriptions',
-  hooks: {
-    beforeChange: [createStripeSubscription],
-  },
-  fields: [
-    {
-      name: 'stripeSubscriptionID',
-      type: 'text',
-      required: true,
-    },
-  ],
-}
-```
-
-**Collection hook**:
-
-```ts
-// collections/Subscriptions/hooks/createStripeSubscription.ts
-
-// highlight-start
-import Stripe from 'stripe' // <-- server-only module
-// highlight-end
-
-const stripe = new Stripe(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY)
-
-export const createStripeSubscription = async ({ data, operation }) => {
-  if (operation === 'create') {
-    const dataWithStripeID = { ...data }
-
-    // use Stripe to create a Stripe subscription
-    const subscription = await stripe.subscriptions.create({
-      // Configure the subscription accordingly
-    })
-
-    // Automatically add the Stripe subscription ID
-    // to the data that will be saved to this Subscription doc
-    dataWithStripeID.stripeSubscriptionID = subscription.id
-
-    return dataWithStripeID
-  }
-
-  return data
-}
-```
-
-<Banner type="error">
-  <strong>Warning:</strong>
-  <br />
-  The above code is NOT production-ready and should not be referenced to create Stripe
-  subscriptions. Although creating a beforeChange hook is a completely valid spot to do things like
-  create subscriptions, the code above is incomplete and insecure, meant for explanation purposes
-  only.
-</Banner>
-
-**As-is, this collection will prevent your Admin panel from bundling or loading correctly, because Stripe relies on some Node-only packages.**
-
-#### How to fix this
-
-You need to make sure that you use `alias`es to tell your bundler to import "safe" files vs. attempting to import any server-side code that you need to get rid of. Depending on your bundler (Webpack, Vite, etc.) the steps involved may be slightly different.
-
-The basic idea is to create a file that exports an empty object, and then alias import paths of any files that import server-only modules to that empty object file.
-
-This way when your bundler goes to import a file that contains server-only modules, it will instead import the empty object file, which will not break the browser bundle.
-
-### Aliasing server-only modules
-
-To remove files that contain server-only modules from your bundle, you can use an `alias`.
-
-In the Subscriptions config file above, we are importing the hook like so:
-
-```ts
-// collections/Subscriptions/index.ts
-
-import createStripeSubscription from './hooks/createStripeSubscription'
-```
-
-By default the browser bundle will now include all the code from that file and any files down the tree. We know that the file imports `stripe`.
-
-To fix this, we need to alias the `createStripeSubscription` file to a different file that can safely be included in the browser bundle.
-
-First, we will create a mock file to replace the server-only file when bundling:
-
-```js
-// mocks/modules.js
-
-export default {}
-
-/**
- * NOTE: if you are destructuring an import
- * the mock file will need to export matching
- * variables as the destructured object.
- *
- * export const namedExport = {}
- */
-```
-
-Aliasing with [Webpack](/docs/admin/webpack) can be done by:
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import { webpackBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-webpack'
-
-import { Subscriptions } from './collections/Subscriptions'
-
-const mockModulePath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'mocks/emptyObject.js')
-const fullFilePath = path.resolve(
-  __dirname,
-  'collections/Subscriptions/hooks/createStripeSubscription',
-)
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  collections: [Subscriptions],
-  admin: {
-    bundler: webpackBundler(),
-    webpack: (config) => {
-      return {
-        ...config,
-        resolve: {
-          ...config.resolve,
-          // highlight-start
-          alias: {
-            ...config.resolve.alias,
-            [fullFilePath]: mockModulePath,
-          },
-          // highlight-end
-        },
-      }
-    },
-  },
-})
-```
-
-Aliasing with [Vite](/docs/admin/vite) can be done by:
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import { viteBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-vite'
-
-import { Subscriptions } from './collections/Subscriptions'
-
-const mockModulePath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'mocks/emptyObject.js')
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  collections: [Subscriptions],
-  admin: {
-    bundler: viteBundler(),
-    vite: (incomingViteConfig) => {
-      const existingAliases = incomingViteConfig?.resolve?.alias || {}
-      let aliasArray: { find: string | RegExp; replacement: string }[] = []
-
-      // Pass the existing Vite aliases
-      if (Array.isArray(existingAliases)) {
-        aliasArray = existingAliases
-      } else {
-        aliasArray = Object.values(existingAliases)
-      }
-
-      // highlight-start
-      // Add your own aliases using the find and replacement keys
-      // remember, vite aliases are exact-match only
-      aliasArray.push({
-        find: '../server-only-module',
-        replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, './path/to/browser-safe-module.js'),
-      })
-      // highlight-end
-
-      return {
-        ...incomingViteConfig,
-        resolve: {
-          ...(incomingViteConfig?.resolve || {}),
-          alias: aliasArray,
-        },
-      }
-    },
-  },
-})
-```

docs/admin/fields.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+---
+title: Customizing Fields
+label: Customizing Fields
+order: 40
+desc:
+keywords:
+---
+
+All Payload fields support the ability to swap in your own React components. So, for example, instead of rendering a default Text input, you might need to render a color picker that provides the editor with a custom color picker interface to restrict the data entered to colors only.
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br />
+  Don't see a built-in field type that you need? Build it! Using a combination of custom validation
+  and custom components, you can override the entirety of how a component functions within the admin
+  panel and effectively create your own field type.
+</Banner>
+
+**Fields support the following custom components:**
+
+| Component    | Description                                                                                                                 |
+| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Filter`** | Override the text input that is presented in the `List` view when a user is filtering documents by the customized field.    |
+| **`Cell`**   | Used in the `List` view's table to represent a table-based preview of the data stored in the field. [More details](#cell-component).|
+| **`Field`**  | Swap out the field itself within all `Edit` views. [More details](#field-component).                                                |
+
+As an alternative to replacing the entire Field component, you may want to keep the majority of the default Field component and only swap components within. This allows you to replace the **`Label`** or **`Error`** within a field component or add additional components inside the field with **`beforeInput`** or **`afterInput`**. **`beforeInput`** and **`afterInput`** are allowed in any fields that don't contain other fields, except [UI](/docs/fields/ui) and [Rich Text](/docs/fields/rich-text).
+
+| Component         | Description                                                                                                     |
+| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Label`**       | Override the default Label in the Field Component. [More details](#label-component).                                    |
+| **`Error`**       | Override the default Label in the Field Component. [More details](#error-component).                                    |
+| **`beforeInput`** | An array of elements that will be added before `input`/`textarea` elements. [More details](#afterinput-and-beforeinput).|
+| **`afterInput`**  | An array of elements that will be added after `input`/`textarea` elements. [More details](#afterinput-and-beforeinput). |
+
+## Cell Component
+
+These are the props that will be passed to your custom Cell to use in your own components.
+
+| Property         | Description                                                       |
+| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`field`**      | An object that includes the field configuration.                  |
+| **`colIndex`**   | A unique number for the column in the list.                       |
+| **`collection`** | An object with the config of the Collection that the field is in. |
+| **`cellData`**   | The data for the field that the cell represents.                  |
+| **`rowData`**    | An object with all the field values for the row.                  |
+
+#### Example
+
+```tsx
+import React from 'react'
+import type { CellProps } from 'payload'
+import './index.scss'
+
+const baseClass = 'custom-cell'
+
+const CustomCell: React.FC<Props> = (props) => {
+  const { field, colIndex, collection, cellData, rowData } = props
+
+  return <span className={baseClass}>{cellData}</span>
+}
+```
+
+## Field Component
+
+When writing your own custom components you can make use of a number of hooks to set data, get reactive changes to other fields, get the id of the document or interact with a context from a custom provider.
+
+### Sending and receiving values from the form
+
+When swapping out the `Field` component, you'll be responsible for sending and receiving the field's `value` from the form itself. To do so, import the `useField` hook as follows:
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+import { useField } from '@payloadcms/ui'
+
+const CustomTextField: React.FC<{ path: string }> = ({ path }) => {
+  // highlight-start
+  const { value, setValue } = useField({ path })
+  // highlight-end
+
+  return <input onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.value)} value={value} />
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  For more information regarding the hooks that are available to you while you build custom
+  components, including the <strong>useField</strong> hook, [click here](/docs/admin/hooks).
+</Banner>
+
+## Label Component
+
+These are the props that will be passed to your custom Label.
+
+| Property       | Description                                                      |
+| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`htmlFor`**  | Property used to set `for` attribute for label.                  |
+| **`label`**    | Label value provided in field, it can be used with i18n.         |
+| **`required`** | A boolean value that represents if the field is required or not. |
+
+#### Example
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+import React from 'react'
+import { useTranslation } from '@payloadcms/ui'
+import { getTranslation } from '@payloadcms/translations'
+
+type Props = {
+  htmlFor?: string
+  label?: Record<string, string> | false | string
+  required?: boolean
+}
+
+const CustomLabel: React.FC<Props> = (props) => {
+  const { htmlFor, label, required = false } = props
+
+  const { i18n } = useTranslation()
+
+  if (label) {
+    return (
+      <span>
+        {getTranslation(label, i18n)}
+        {required && <span className="required">*</span>}
+      </span>
+    )
+  }
+
+  return null
+}
+```
+
+## Error Component
+
+These are the props that will be passed to your custom Error.
+
+| Property        | Description                                                   |
+| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`message`**   | The error message.                                            |
+| **`showError`** | A boolean value that represents if the error should be shown. |
+
+#### Example
+
+```tsx
+import React from 'react'
+
+type Props = {
+  message: string
+  showError?: boolean
+}
+
+const CustomError: React.FC<Props> = (props) => {
+  const { message, showError } = props
+
+  if (showError) {
+    return <p style={{ color: 'red' }}>{message}</p>
+  } else return null
+}
+```
+
+## afterInput and beforeInput
+
+With these properties you can add multiple components before and after the input element. For example, you can add an absolutely positioned button to clear the current field value.
+
+#### Example
+
+```tsx
+import React from 'react'
+import type { Field } from 'payload/types'
+
+import './style.scss'
+
+const ClearButton: React.FC = () => {
+  return (
+    <button
+      onClick={() => {
+        /* ... */
+      }}
+    >
+      X
+    </button>
+  )
+}
+
+const titleField: Field = {
+  name: 'title',
+  type: 'text',
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      afterInput: [ClearButton],
+    },
+  },
+}
+
+export default titleField
+```

docs/admin/hooks.mdx

@@ -1,58 +1,75 @@
 ---
 title: React Hooks
 label: React Hooks
-order: 30
+order: 50
 desc: Make use of all of the powerful React hooks that Payload provides.
-keywords: admin, components, custom, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: admin, components, custom, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-Payload provides a variety of powerful hooks that can be used within your own React components. With them, you can interface with Payload itself and build just about any type of complex customization you can think of—directly in familiar React code.
+Payload provides a variety of powerful [React Hooks](https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/hooks) that can be used within your own [Custom Components](./components), such as [Custom Fields](./fields). With them, you can interface with Payload itself and build just about any type of complex customization you can think of.
 
-### useField
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Reminder:</strong>
+  All Custom Components are [React Server Components](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components) by default. Hooks, on the other hand, are only available in client-side environments. To use hooks, [ensure your component is a client component](./components#client-components).
+</Banner>
+
+## useField
 
 The `useField` hook is used internally within every applicable Payload field component, and it manages sending and receiving a field's state from its parent form.
 
 Outside of internal use, its most common use-case is in custom `Field` components. When you build a custom React `Field` component, you'll be responsible for sending and receiving the field's `value` from the form itself. To do so, import the `useField` hook as follows:
 
 ```tsx
-import { useField } from 'payload/components/forms'
+'use client'
+import { useField } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
-type Props = { path: string }
-
-const CustomTextField: React.FC<Props> = ({ path }) => {
+const CustomTextField: React.FC = ({ name }) => {
   // highlight-start
-  const { value, setValue } = useField<string>({ path })
+  const { value, setValue, path } = useField({ path: name })
   // highlight-end
 
-  return <input onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.value)} value={value.path} />
+  return (
+    <input
+      onChange={(e) => setValue(e.target.value)}
+      value={value.path}
+    />
+  )
 }
 ```
 
-The `useField` hook accepts an `args` object and sends back information and helpers for you to make use of:
+The `useField` hook accepts the following arguments:
+
+| Property          | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `disableFormData` | If `true`, the field will not be included in the form data when the form is submitted.                                                                                                                                         |
+| `hasRows`         |                                                                                                           |
+| `path`            | If you do not provide a `path` or a `name`, this hook will look for one using the `useFieldPath` hook.                                                                                                                         |
+| `validate`        | If you do not provide a `validate` function, the field will be validated _on the client_ before submitting to the server.                                                                                                     |
+
+Here is what `useField` hook returns:
 
 ```ts
-const field = useField<string>({
-  path: 'fieldPathHere', // required
-  validate: myValidateFunc, // optional
-  disableFormData?: false, // if true, the field's data will be ignored
-  condition?: myConditionHere, // optional, used to skip validation if condition fails
-})
-
-// Here is what `useField` sends back
-const {
-  showError, // whether or not the field should show as errored
-  errorMessage, // the error message to show, if showError
-  value, // the current value of the field from the form
-  formSubmitted, // if the form has been submitted
-  formProcessing, // if the form is currently processing
-  setValue, // method to set the field's value in form state
-  initialValue, // the initial value that the field mounted with
-} = field;
-
-// The rest of your component goes here
+type FieldResult<T> = {
+  errorMessage?: string
+  errorPaths?: string[]
+  filterOptions?: FilterOptionsResult
+  formInitializing: boolean
+  formProcessing: boolean
+  formSubmitted: boolean
+  initialValue?: T
+  path: string
+  permissions: FieldPermissions
+  readOnly?: boolean
+  rows?: Row[]
+  schemaPath: string
+  setValue: (val: unknown, disableModifyingForm?: boolean) => voi
+  showError: boolean
+  valid?: boolean
+  value: T
+}
 ```
 
-### useFormFields
+## useFormFields
 
 There are times when a custom field component needs to have access to data from other fields, and you have a few options to do so. The `useFormFields` hook is a powerful and highly performant way to retrieve a form's field state, as well as to retrieve the `dispatchFields` method, which can be helpful for setting other fields' form states from anywhere within a form.
 
@@ -66,7 +83,8 @@ Thanks to the awesome package [`use-context-selector`](https://github.com/dai-sh
 You can pass a Redux-like selector into the hook, which will ensure that you retrieve only the field that you want. The selector takes an argument with type of `[fields: Fields, dispatch: React.Dispatch<Action>]]`.
 
 ```tsx
-import { useFormFields } from 'payload/components/forms'
+'use client'
+import type { useFormFields } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // Get only the `amount` field state, and only cause a rerender when that field changes
@@ -81,14 +99,15 @@ const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useAllFormFields
+## useAllFormFields
 
 **To retrieve more than one field**, you can use the `useAllFormFields` hook. Your component will re-render when _any_ field changes, so use this hook only if you absolutely need to. Unlike the `useFormFields` hook, this hook does not accept a "selector", and it always returns an array with type of `[fields: Fields, dispatch: React.Dispatch<Action>]]`.
 
 You can do lots of powerful stuff by retrieving the full form state, like using built-in helper functions to reduce field state to values only, or to retrieve sibling data by path.
 
 ```tsx
-import { useAllFormFields, reduceFieldsToValues, getSiblingData } from 'payload/components/forms';
+'use client'
+import { useAllFormFields, reduceFieldsToValues, getSiblingData } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const ExampleComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // the `fields` const will be equal to all fields' state,
@@ -109,9 +128,9 @@ const ExampleComponent: React.FC = () => {
 };
 ```
 
-##### Updating other fields' values
+#### Updating other fields' values
 
-If you are building a custom component, then you should use `setValue` which is returned from the `useField` hook to programmatically set your field's value. But if you're looking to update _another_ field's value, you can use `dispatchFields` returned from `useFormFields`.
+If you are building a Custom Component, then you should use `setValue` which is returned from the `useField` hook to programmatically set your field's value. But if you're looking to update _another_ field's value, you can use `dispatchFields` returned from `useFormFields`.
 
 You can send the following actions to the `dispatchFields` function.
 
@@ -128,7 +147,7 @@ You can send the following actions to the `dispatchFields` function.
 
 To see types for each action supported within the `dispatchFields` hook, check out the Form types [here](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/payload/src/admin/components/forms/Form/types.ts).
 
-### useForm
+## useForm
 
 The `useForm` hook can be used to interact with the form itself, and sends back many methods that can be used to reactively fetch form state without causing rerenders within your components each time a field is changed. This is useful if you have action-based callbacks that your components fire, and need to interact with form state _based on a user action_.
 
@@ -141,7 +160,7 @@ The `useForm` hook can be used to interact with the form itself, and sends back
   up-to-date. They will be removed from this hook's response in an upcoming version.
 </Banner>
 
-The `useForm` hook returns an object with the following properties: |
+The `useForm` hook returns an object with the following properties:
 
 <TableWithDrawers
   columns={[
@@ -394,7 +413,7 @@ export const CustomArrayManager = () => {
 }`}
 </pre>
 
-  <p>An example config to go along with the custom component</p>
+  <p>An example config to go along with the Custom Component</p>
   <pre>
 {`const ExampleCollection = {
   slug: "example-collection",
@@ -491,7 +510,7 @@ export const CustomArrayManager = () => {
 }`}
 </pre>
 
-  <p>An example config to go along with the custom component</p>
+  <p>An example config to go along with the Custom Component</p>
   <pre>
 {`const ExampleCollection = {
   slug: "example-collection",
@@ -601,7 +620,7 @@ export const CustomArrayManager = () => {
 }`}
 </pre>
 
-  <p>An example config to go along with the custom component</p>
+  <p>An example config to go along with the Custom Component</p>
   <pre>
 {`const ExampleCollection = {
   slug: "example-collection",
@@ -635,23 +654,24 @@ export const CustomArrayManager = () => {
   ]}
 />
 
-### useCollapsible
+## useCollapsible
 
 The `useCollapsible` hook allows you to control parent collapsibles:
 
-| Property                  | Description                                                                                                  |
-| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --- |
-| **`isCollapsed`**         | State of the collapsible. `true` if open, `false` if collapsed                                               |
-| **`isVisible`**           | If nested, determine if the nearest collapsible is visible. `true` if no parent is closed, `false` otherwise |
-| **`toggle`**              | Toggles the state of the nearest collapsible                                                                 |
-| **`isWithinCollapsible`** | Determine when you are within another collaspible                                                            |     |
+| Property                  | Description                                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`isCollapsed`**         | State of the collapsible. `true` if open, `false` if collapsed.                                               |
+| **`isVisible`**           | If nested, determine if the nearest collapsible is visible. `true` if no parent is closed, `false` otherwise. |
+| **`toggle`**              | Toggles the state of the nearest collapsible.                                                                 |
+| **`isWithinCollapsible`** | Determine when you are within another collapsible.                                                            |
 
 **Example:**
 
 ```tsx
+'use client'
 import React from 'react'
 
-import { useCollapsible } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+import { useCollapsible } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const CustomComponent: React.FC = () => {
   const { isCollapsed, toggle } = useCollapsible()
@@ -667,14 +687,14 @@ const CustomComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useDocumentInfo
+## useDocumentInfo
 
 The `useDocumentInfo` hook provides lots of information about the document currently being edited, including the following:
 
 | Property                  | Description                                                                                                        |
 | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| **`collection`**          | If the doc is a collection, its collection config will be returned                                                 |
-| **`global`**              | If the doc is a global, its global config will be returned                                                         |
+| **`collection`**          | If the doc is a collection, its Collection Config will be returned                                                 |
+| **`global`**              | If the doc is a global, its Global Config will be returned                                                         |
 | **`id`**                  | If the doc is a collection, its ID will be returned                                                                |
 | **`preferencesKey`**      | The `preferences` key to use when interacting with document-level user preferences                                 |
 | **`versions`**            | Versions of the current doc                                                                                        |
@@ -687,7 +707,8 @@ The `useDocumentInfo` hook provides lots of information about the document curre
 **Example:**
 
 ```tsx
-import { useDocumentInfo } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+'use client'
+import { useDocumentInfo } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const LinkFromCategoryToPosts: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -707,12 +728,13 @@ const LinkFromCategoryToPosts: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useLocale
+## useLocale
 
-In any custom component you can get the selected locale object with the `useLocale` hook. `useLocale`gives you the full locale object, consisting of a `label`, `rtl`(right-to-left) property, and then `code`. Here is a simple example:
+In any Custom Component you can get the selected locale object with the `useLocale` hook. `useLocale`gives you the full locale object, consisting of a `label`, `rtl`(right-to-left) property, and then `code`. Here is a simple example:
 
 ```tsx
-import { useLocale } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+'use client'
+import { useLocale } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const Greeting: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -728,7 +750,7 @@ const Greeting: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useAuth
+## useAuth
 
 Useful to retrieve info about the currently logged in user as well as methods for interacting with it. It sends back an object with the following properties:
 
@@ -743,8 +765,9 @@ Useful to retrieve info about the currently logged in user as well as methods fo
 | **`permissions`**        | The permissions of the current user                                                     |
 
 ```tsx
-import { useAuth } from 'payload/components/utilities'
-import { User } from '../payload-types.ts'
+'use client'
+import { useAuth } from '@payloadcms/ui'
+import type { User } from '../payload-types.ts'
 
 const Greeting: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -755,12 +778,13 @@ const Greeting: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useConfig
+## useConfig
 
-Used to easily fetch the full Payload config.
+Used to easily retrieve the Payload [Client Config](./components#accessing-the-payload-config).
 
 ```tsx
-import { useConfig } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+'use client'
+import { useConfig } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -771,12 +795,13 @@ const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useEditDepth
+## useEditDepth
 
 Sends back how many editing levels "deep" the current component is. Edit depth is relevant while adding new documents / editing documents in modal windows and other cases.
 
 ```tsx
-import { useEditDepth } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+'use client'
+import { useEditDepth } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -787,16 +812,17 @@ const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### usePreferences
+## usePreferences
 
 Returns methods to set and get user preferences. More info can be found [here](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/preferences).
 
-### useTheme
+## useTheme
 
 Returns the currently selected theme (`light`, `dark` or `auto`), a set function to update it and a boolean `autoMode`, used to determine if the theme value should be set automatically based on the user's device preferences.
 
 ```tsx
-import { useTheme } from 'payload/components/utilities'
+'use client'
+import { useTheme } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -819,12 +845,13 @@ const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useTableColumns
+## useTableColumns
 
 Returns methods to manipulate table columns
 
 ```tsx
-import { useTableColumns } from 'payload/components/hooks'
+'use client'
+import { useTableColumns } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
   // highlight-start
@@ -843,7 +870,7 @@ const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
 }
 ```
 
-### useDocumentEvents
+## useDocumentEvents
 
 The `useDocumentEvents` hook provides a way of subscribing to cross-document events, such as updates made to nested documents within a drawer. This hook will report document events that are outside the scope of the document currently being edited. This hook provides the following:
 
@@ -855,7 +882,8 @@ The `useDocumentEvents` hook provides a way of subscribing to cross-document eve
 **Example:**
 
 ```tsx
-import { useDocumentEvents } from 'payload/components/hooks'
+'use client'
+import { useDocumentEvents } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const ListenForUpdates: React.FC = () => {
   const { mostRecentUpdate } = useDocumentEvents()

docs/admin/overview.mdx

@@ -2,90 +2,230 @@
 title: The Admin Panel
 label: Overview
 order: 10
-desc: Manage your data and customize the Admin Panel by swapping in your own React components. Create, modify or remove views, fields, styles and much more.
-keywords: admin, components, custom, customize, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+desc: Manage your data and customize the Payload Admin Panel by swapping in your own React components. Create, modify or remove views, fields, styles and much more.
+keywords: admin, components, custom, customize, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-Payload dynamically generates a beautiful, fully functional React admin panel to manage your data. It's extremely powerful and can be customized / extended upon easily by swapping in your own React components. You can add additional views, modify how built-in views look / work, swap out Payload branding for your client's, build your own field types and much more.
+Payload dynamically generates a beautiful, [fully type-safe](../typescript/overview) admin panel to manage your users and data. It is highly performant, even with 100+ fields, and is translated in over 30 languages. Within the Admin Panel you can manage content, [render your site](../live-preview/overview), preview drafts, [diff versions](../versions/overview), and so much more.
 
-The Payload Admin panel can be bundled with our officially supported [Vite](/docs/admin/vite) and [webpack](/docs/admin/webpack) bundlers or you can integrate another bundler following our adapter pattern approach.
-When bundled, it is code-split, highly performant (even with 100+ fields), and written fully in TypeScript.
+The Admin Panel is designed to [white-label your brand](https://payloadcms.com/blog/white-label-admin-ui). You can endlessly customize and extend the Admin UI by swapping in your own [Custom Components](./components)—everything from simple field labels to entire views can be modified or replaced to meet the needs of your editors.
+
+The Admin Panel is written in [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org) and built with [React](https://react.dev) using the [Next.js App Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/app). It supports [React Server Components](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components) and the use of the [Local API](/docs/local-api/overview) on the front-end. You can install Payload into any [existing Next.js app in just one line](../getting-started/installation) and [deploy it anywhere](../production).
 
 <Banner type="success">
-  The Admin panel is meant to be simple enough to give you a starting point but not bring too much
-  complexity, so that you can easily customize it to suit the needs of your application and your
-  editors.
+  The Payload Admin Panel is designed to be as minimal and straightforward as possible to allow easy customization and control. [Learn more](./components).
 </Banner>
 
 <LightDarkImage
   srcLight="https://payloadcms.com/images/docs/admin.jpg"
   srcDark="https://payloadcms.com/images/docs/admin-dark.jpg"
-  alt="Admin panel with collapsible sidebar"
-  caption="Redesigned admin panel with a collapsible sidebar that's open by default, providing greater extensibility and enhanced horizontal real estate."
+  alt="Admin Panel with collapsible sidebar"
+  caption="Redesigned Admin Panel with a collapsible sidebar that's open by default, providing greater extensibility and enhanced horizontal real estate."
 />
 
+## Project Structure
+
+The Admin Panel serves as the entire HTTP layer for Payload, providing a full CRUD interface for your app. This means that both the [REST](../rest-api/overview) and [GraphQL](../graphql/overview) APIs are Next.js routes that exist directly alongside your front-end application.
+
+Once you [install Payload](../getting-started/installation), the following files and directories will be created in your app:
+
+```plaintext
+app/
+├─ (payload)/
+├── admin/
+├─── [[...segments]]/
+├──── page.tsx
+├──── not-found.tsx
+├── api/
+├─── [...slug]/
+├──── route.ts
+├── graphql/
+├──── route.ts
+├── graphql-playground/
+├──── route.ts
+├── custom.scss
+├── layout.tsx
+```
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  If you are not familiar with Next.js project structure, you can [learn more about it here](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started/project-structure).
+</Banner>
+
+As shown above, all Payload routes are nested within the `(payload)` route group. This creates a boundary between the Admin Panel and the rest of your application by scoping all layouts and styles. The `layout.tsx` file within this directory, for example, is where Payload manages the `html` tag of the document to set proper `lang` and `dir` attributes, etc.
+
+The `admin` directory contains all the _pages_ related to the interface itself, whereas the `api` and `graphql` directories contains all the _routes_ related to the [REST API](../rest-api/overview) and [GraphQL API](../graphql/overview). All admin routes are [easily configurable](#customizing-routes) to meet your application's requirements.
+
+Finally, the `custom.scss` file is where you can add or override globally-oriented styles in the Admin Panel, such as the color palette. Customizing the look and feel through CSS alone is a powerful feature of the Admin Panel, [more on that here](./customizing-css).
+
+All auto-generated files will contain the following comments at the top of each file:
+
+```tsx
+/* THIS FILE WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY PAYLOAD. */,
+/* DO NOT MODIFY IT BECAUSE IT COULD BE REWRITTEN AT ANY TIME. */
+```
+
 ## Admin Options
 
-All options for the Admin panel are defined in your base Payload config file.
+All options for the Admin Panel are defined in your [Payload Config](../configuration/overview) under the `admin` key.
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
+  admin: { // highlight-line
+    // ...
+  },
+})
+```
+
+The following options are available for the Admin Panel:
 
 | Option            | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `bundler`         | The bundler that you would like to use to bundle the admin panel. Officially supported bundlers: [Webpack](/docs/admin/webpack) and [Vite](/docs/admin/vite).                                                                                                               |
-| `user`            | The `slug` of a Collection that you want be used to log in to the Admin dashboard. [More](/docs/admin/overview#the-admin-user-collection)                                                                                                                                   |
-| `buildPath`       | Specify an absolute path for where to store the built Admin panel bundle used in production. Defaults to `path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'build')`.                                                                                                                            |
-| `meta`            | Base meta data to use for the Admin panel. Included properties are `titleSuffix`, `ogImage`, and `favicon`.                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| `disable`         | If set to `true`, the entire Admin panel will be disabled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `indexHTML`       | Optionally replace the entirety of the `index.html` file used by the Admin panel. Reference the [base index.html file](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/packages/payload/src/admin/index.html) to ensure your replacement has the appropriate HTML elements. |
-| `css`             | Absolute path to a stylesheet that you can use to override / customize the Admin panel styling. [More](/docs/admin/customizing-css).                                                                                                                                        |
-| `scss`            | Absolute path to a Sass variables / mixins stylesheet meant to override Payload styles to make for an easy re-skinning of the Admin panel. [More](/docs/admin/customizing-css#overriding-scss-variables).                                                                   |
-| `dateFormat`      | Global date format that will be used for all dates in the Admin panel. Any valid [date-fns](https://date-fns.org/) format pattern can be used.                                                                                                                              |
+| `user`            | The `slug` of the Collection that you want to allow to login to the Admin Panel. [More details](#the-admin-user-collection).                                                                                                                                                        |
+| `buildPath`       | Specify an absolute path for where to store the built Admin bundle used in production. Defaults to `path.resolve(process.cwd(), 'build')`.                                                                                                                                  |
+| `meta`            | Base metadata to use for the Admin Panel. Included properties are `titleSuffix`, `icons`, and `openGraph`. Can be overridden on a per Collection or per Global basis.                                                                                                       |
+| `disable`         | If set to `true`, the entire Admin Panel will be disabled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| `dateFormat`      | The date format that will be used for all dates within the Admin Panel. Any valid [date-fns](https://date-fns.org/) format pattern can be used.                                                                                                                             |
 | `avatar`          | Set account profile picture. Options: `gravatar`, `default` or a custom React component.                                                                                                                                                                                    |
-| `autoLogin`       | Used to automate admin log-in for dev and demonstration convenience. [More](/docs/authentication/config).                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| `livePreview`     | Enable real-time editing for instant visual feedback of your front-end application. [More](/docs/live-preview/overview).                                                                                                                                                    |
-| `components`      | Component overrides that affect the entirety of the Admin panel. [More](/docs/admin/components)                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `webpack`         | Customize the Webpack config that's used to generate the Admin panel. [More](/docs/admin/webpack)                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| `vite`            | Customize the Vite config that's used to generate the Admin panel. [More](/docs/admin/vite)                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| `logoutRoute`     | The route for the `logout` page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| `inactivityRoute` | The route for the `logout` inactivity page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| `autoLogin`       | Used to automate admin log-in for dev and demonstration convenience. [More details](../authentication/config).                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `livePreview`     | Enable real-time editing for instant visual feedback of your front-end application. [More details](../live-preview/overview).                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `components`      | Component overrides that affect the entirety of the Admin Panel. [More details](./components).                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `routes`          | Replace built-in Admin Panel routes with your own custom routes. [More details](#customizing-routes).                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `custom`          | Any custom properties you wish to pass to the Admin Panel.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  These are the _root-level_ options for the Admin Panel. You can also customize the admin options of any Collection or Global through their respective `admin` keys.
+</Banner>
 
 ### The Admin User Collection
 
-<Banner type="warning">
-  <strong>Important:</strong>
-  <br />
-  The Payload Admin panel can only be used by one Collection that supports
-  [Authentication](/docs/authentication/overview).
-</Banner>
-
-To specify which Collection to use to log in to the Admin panel, pass the `admin` options a `user` key equal to the slug of the Collection that you'd like to use.
-
-`payload.config.js`:
+To specify which Collection to allow to login to the Admin Panel, pass the `admin.user` key equal to the slug of any auth-enabled Collection:
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 
 const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
   admin: {
     user: 'admins', // highlight-line
   },
 })
 ```
 
-By default, if you have not specified a Collection, Payload will automatically provide you with a `User` Collection which will be used to access the Admin panel. You can customize or override the fields and settings of the default `User` Collection by passing your own collection using `users` as its `slug` to Payload. When this is done, Payload will use your provided `User` Collection instead of its default version.
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Important:</strong>
+  <br />
+  The Admin Panel can only be used by a single auth-enabled Collection. To enable authentication for a Collection, simply set `auth: true` in the Collection's configuration. See [Authentication](../authentication/overview) for more information.
+</Banner>
 
-**Note: you can use whatever Collection you'd like to access the Admin panel as long as the Collection supports Authentication. It doesn't need to be called `users`!**
+By default, if you have not specified a Collection, Payload will automatically provide a `User` Collection with access to the Admin Panel. You can customize or override the fields and settings of the default `User` Collection by adding your own Collection with `slug: 'users'`. Doing this will force Payload to use your provided `User` Collection instead of its default version.
 
-For example, you may wish to have two Collections that both support `Authentication`:
+You can use whatever Collection you'd like to access the Admin Panel as long as the Collection supports [Authentication](/docs/authentication/overview). It doesn't need to be called `users`. For example, you may wish to have two Collections that both support authentication:
 
-- `admins` - meant to have a higher level of permissions to manage your data and access the Admin panel
-- `customers` - meant for end users of your app that should not be allowed to log into the Admin panel
+- `admins` - meant to have a higher level of permissions to manage your data and access the Admin Panel
+- `customers` - meant for end users of your app that should not be allowed to log into the Admin Panel
 
-This is totally possible. For the above scenario, by specifying `admin: { user: 'admins' }`, your Payload Admin panel will use `admins`. Any users logged in as `customers` will not be able to log in via the Admin panel.
+To do this, specify `admin: { user: 'admins' }` in your config. This will provide access to the Admin Panel to only `admins`. Any users authenticated as `customers` will be prevented from accessing the Admin Panel.  See [Access Control](/docs/access-control/overview) for full details.
 
-### Light and dark modes
+### Role-based Access Control
 
-Users in the admin panel have access to choosing between light mode and dark mode for their editing experience. The setting is managed while logged into the admin UI within the user account page and will be stored with the browser. By default, the operating system preference is detected and used.
+It is also possible to allow multiple user types into the Admin Panel with limited permissions. For example, you may wish to have two roles within the `admins` Collection:
 
-### Restricting user access
+- `super-admin` - full access to the Admin Panel to perform any action
+- `editor` - limited access to the Admin Panel to only manage content
 
-If you would like to restrict which users from a single Collection can access the Admin panel, you can use the `admin` access control function. [Click here](/docs/access-control/overview#admin) to learn more.
+To do this, add a `roles` or similar field to your auth-enabled Collection, then use the `access.admin` property to grant or deny access based on the value of that field. See [Access Control](/docs/access-control/overview) for full details. For a complete, working example of role-based access control, check out the official [Auth Example](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/auth/payload).
+
+## Customizing Routes
+
+You have full control over the routes that Payload binds itself to. This includes both [Root-level Routes](#root-level-routes) such as the [REST API](../rest-api/overview), and [Admin-level Routes](#admin-level-routes) such as the user's account page. You can customize these routes to meet the needs of your application simply by specifying the desired paths in your config.
+
+### Root-level Routes
+
+Root-level routes are those that are not behind the `/admin` path, such as the [REST API](../rest-api/overview) and [GraphQL API](../graphql/overview), or the root path of the Admin Panel itself.
+
+Here is an example of how you might modify root-level routes:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
+  routes: {
+    admin: '/custom-admin-route' // highlight-line
+  }
+})
+```
+
+You can configure custom paths for the following root-level routes through the `routes` property of your [Payload Config](../configuration/overview):
+
+| Option             | Default route           | Description                           |
+| ------------------ | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
+| `admin`            | `/admin`                | The Admin Panel itself.               |
+| `api`              | `/api`                  | The REST API base path.               |
+| `graphQL`          | `/graphql`              | The GraphQL API base path.            |
+| `graphQLPlayground`| `/graphql-playground`   | The GraphQL Playground.               |
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Reminder:</strong>
+  The `routes` key is defined in the _top-level_ of your [Payload Config](../configuration/overview), _outside_ the `admin` key. To customize the Admin Panel routes, use [admin-level routes](#admin-level-routes) instead.
+</Banner>
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+   You can easily add _new_ routes to the Admin Panel through the `endpoints` property of the Payload Config. See [Custom Endpoints](../rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints) for more information.
+</Banner>
+
+### Admin-level Routes
+
+Admin-level routes are those behind the `/admin` path. These are the routes that are part of the Admin Panel itself, such as the user's account page, the login page, etc.
+
+Here is an example of how you might modify admin-level routes:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    routes: {
+      account: '/my-account' // highlight-line
+    }
+  },
+})
+```
+
+You can configure custom paths for the following admin-level routes through the `admin.routes` property of your [Payload Config](../configuration/overview):
+
+| Option            | Default route           | Description                                     |
+| ----------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
+| `account`         | `/account`              | The user's account page.                        |
+| `createFirstUser` | `/create-first-user`    | The page to create the first user.              |
+| `forgot`          | `/forgot`               | The password reset page.                        |
+| `inactivity`      | `/logout-inactivity`    | The page to redirect to after inactivity.       |
+| `login`           | `/login`                | The login page.                                 |
+| `logout`          | `/logout`               | The logout page.                                |
+| `reset`           | `/reset`                | The password reset page.                        |
+| `unauthorized`    | `/unauthorized`         | The unauthorized page.                          |
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  You can also swap out entire _views_ out for your own, using the `admin.views` property of the Payload Config. See [Custom Views](./views) for more information.
+</Banner>
+
+## I18n
+
+The Payload Admin Panel is translated in over [30 languages and counting](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/beta/packages/translations). Languages are automatically detected based on the user's browser and used by the Admin Panel to display all text in that language. If no language was detected, or if the user's language is not yet supported, English will be chosen. Users can easily specify their language by selecting one from their account page. See [I18n](../configuration/i18n) for more information.
+
+<Banner>
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  If there is a language that Payload does not yet support, we accept code
+  [contributions](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+</Banner>
+
+## Light and Dark Modes
+
+Users in the Admin Panel have the ability to choose between light mode and dark mode for their editing experience. Users can select their preferred theme from their account page. Once selected, it is saved to their user's preferences and persisted across sessions and devices. If no theme was selected, the Admin Panel will automatically detect the operation system's theme and use that as the default.

docs/admin/preferences.mdx

@@ -2,17 +2,18 @@
 title: Managing User Preferences
 label: Preferences
 order: 50
-desc: Store the preferences of your users as they interact with the Admin panel.
-keywords: admin, preferences, custom, customize, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+desc: Store the preferences of your users as they interact with the Admin Panel.
+keywords: admin, preferences, custom, customize, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-As your users interact with your Admin panel, you might want to store their preferences in a persistent manner, so that when they revisit the Admin panel, they can pick right back up where they left off.
+As your users interact with the [Admin Panel](./overview), you might want to store their preferences in a persistent manner, so that when they revisit the Admin Panel in a different session or from a different device, they can pick right back up where they left off.
 
 Out of the box, Payload handles the persistence of your users' preferences in a handful of ways, including:
 
-1. Collection `List` view active columns, and their order, that users define
-1. Their last active locale
-1. The "collapsed" state of blocks, on a document level, as users edit or interact with documents
+1. Columns in the Collection List View: their active state and order
+1. The user's last active [Locale](../configuration/localization)
+1. The "collapsed" state of `blocks`, `array`, and `collapsible` fields
+1. The last-known state of the `Nav` component, etc.
 
 <Banner type="warning">
   <strong>Important:</strong>
@@ -21,38 +22,38 @@ Out of the box, Payload handles the persistence of your users' preferences in a
   that is reading or setting a preference via all provided authentication methods.
 </Banner>
 
-### Use cases
+## Use cases
 
-This API is used significantly for internal operations of the Admin panel, as mentioned above. But, if you're building your own React components for use in the Admin panel, you can allow users to set their own preferences in correspondence to their usage of your components. For example:
+This API is used significantly for internal operations of the Admin Panel, as mentioned above. But, if you're building your own React components for use in the Admin Panel, you can allow users to set their own preferences in correspondence to their usage of your components. For example:
 
 - If you have built a "color picker", you could "remember" the last used colors that the user has set for easy access next time
 - If you've built a custom `Nav` component, and you've built in an "accordion-style" UI, you might want to store the `collapsed` state of each Nav collapsible item. This way, if an editor returns to the panel, their `Nav` state is persisted automatically
 - You might want to store `recentlyAccessed` documents to give admin editors an easy shortcut back to their recently accessed documents on the `Dashboard` or similar
 - Many other use cases exist. Invent your own! Give your editors an intelligent and persistent editing experience.
 
-### Database
+## Database
 
-Payload automatically creates an internally used `payload-preferences` collection that stores user preferences. Each document in the `payload-preferences` collection contains the following shape:
+Payload automatically creates an internally used `payload-preferences` Collection that stores user preferences. Each document in the `payload-preferences` Collection contains the following shape:
 
 | Key               | Value                                                             |
 | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | `id`              | A unique ID for each preference stored.                           |
 | `key`             | A unique `key` that corresponds to the preference.                |
 | `user.value`      | The ID of the `user` that is storing its preference.              |
-| `user.relationTo` | The `slug` of the collection that the `user` is logged in as.     |
+| `user.relationTo` | The `slug` of the Collection that the `user` is logged in as.     |
 | `value`           | The value of the preference. Can be any data shape that you need. |
 | `createdAt`       | A timestamp of when the preference was created.                   |
 | `updatedAt`       | A timestamp set to the last time the preference was updated.      |
 
-### APIs
+## APIs
 
 Preferences are available to both [GraphQL](/docs/graphql/overview#preferences) and [REST](/docs/rest-api/overview#) APIs.
 
-### Adding or reading Preferences in your own components
+## Adding or reading Preferences in your own components
 
-The Payload admin panel offers a `usePreferences` hook. The hook is only meant for use within the admin panel itself. It provides you with two methods:
+The Payload Admin Panel offers a `usePreferences` hook. The hook is only meant for use within the Admin Panel itself. It provides you with two methods:
 
-##### `getPreference`
+#### `getPreference`
 
 This async method provides an easy way to retrieve a user's preferences by `key`. It will return a promise containing the resulting preference value.
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ This async method provides an easy way to retrieve a user's preferences by `key`
 
 - `key`: the `key` of your preference to retrieve.
 
-##### `setPreference`
+#### `setPreference`
 
 Also async, this method provides you with an easy way to set a user preference. It returns `void`.
 
@@ -71,11 +72,12 @@ Also async, this method provides you with an easy way to set a user preference.
 
 ## Example
 
-Here is an example for how you can utilize `usePreferences` within your custom Admin panel components. Note - this example is not fully useful and is more just a reference for how to utilize the Preferences API. In this case, we are demonstrating how to set and retrieve a user's last used colors history within a `ColorPicker` or similar type component.
+Here is an example for how you can utilize `usePreferences` within your custom Admin Panel components. Note - this example is not fully useful and is more just a reference for how to utilize the Preferences API. In this case, we are demonstrating how to set and retrieve a user's last used colors history within a `ColorPicker` or similar type component.
 
-```
+```tsx
+'use client'
 import React, { Fragment, useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';
-import { usePreferences } from 'payload/components/preferences';
+import { usePreferences } from '@payloadcms/ui'
 
 const lastUsedColorsPreferenceKey = 'last-used-colors';
 

docs/admin/views.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+---
+title: Customizing Views
+label: Customizing Views
+order: 30
+desc:
+keywords:
+---
+
+Views are the individual pages that make up the [Admin Panel](./overview), such as the Dashboard, List, and Edit views. One of the most powerful ways to customize the Admin Panel is to create Custom Views. These are [Custom Components](./components) that can either replace built-in views or be entirely new.
+
+To swap in your own Custom Views, consult the list of available components below. Determine the scope that corresponds to what you are trying to accomplish, then [author your React component(s)](#building-custom-views) accordingly.
+
+There are four types of views in Payload:
+
+- [Root Views](#custom-root-views)
+- [Collection Views](#custom-collection-views)
+- [Global Views](#custom-global-views)
+- [Document Views](#custom-document-views)
+
+## Custom Root Views
+
+Root Views are the main views of the [Admin Panel](./overview). These are views that are scoped directly under the `/admin` route, such as the Dashboard or Account views. You can easily swap Root Views with your own or [create entirely new ones](#adding-new-root-views) through the `admin.components.views` property of your [Payload Config](../configuration/overview).
+
+Here is an example showing what it might look like to swap out Root Views for your own Custom Views. See [Building Custom Views](#building-custom-views) for exact details on how to build them:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Dashboard: MyCustomDashboardView, // highlight-line
+      },
+    },
+  },
+})
+```
+
+The following options are available:
+
+| Property        | Description                                                                   |
+| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Account`**   | The Account view is used to show the currently logged in user's Account page. |
+| **`Dashboard`** | The main landing page of the [Admin Panel](./overview).                                     |
+
+For more granular control, pass a configuration object instead. Payload exposes the following properties for each view:
+
+| Property           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                |
+| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| **`Component`** \* | Pass in the component that should be rendered when a user navigates to this route.                                                                                                         |
+| **`path`** \*      | Any valid URL path or array of paths that [`path-to-regexp`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/path-to-regex) understands.                                                                     |
+| **`exact`**        | Boolean. When true, will only match if the path matches the `usePathname()` exactly.                                                                                                     |
+| **`strict`**       | When true, a path that has a trailing slash will only match a `location.pathname` with a trailing slash. This has no effect when there are additional URL segments in the pathname. |
+| **`sensitive`**    | When true, will match if the path is case sensitive.                                                                                                                                       |
+
+_\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
+
+### Adding New Views
+
+To add a _new_ views to the [Admin Panel](./overview), simply add your own key to the `views` object with at least a `path` and `Component` property. For example:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        // highlight-start
+        MyCustomView: {
+        // highlight-end
+          Component: MyCustomView,
+          path: '/my-custom-view',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+})
+```
+
+The above example shows how to add a new [Root View](#custom-root-views), but the pattern is the same for [Collection Views](#custom-collection-views), [Global Views](#custom-global-views), and [Document Views](#custom-document-views). For help on how to build your own Custom Views, see [Building Custom Views](#building-custom-views).
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  <br />
+  Routes are cascading, so unless explicitly given the `exact` property, they will
+  match on URLs that simply _start_ with the route's path. This is helpful when creating catch-all
+  routes in your application. Alternatively, define your nested route _before_ your parent
+  route.
+</Banner>
+
+## Custom Collection Views
+
+Collection Views are views that are scoped under the `/collections` route, such as the Collection List and Document Edit views. You can easily swap out Collection Views with your own or [create entirely new ones](#adding-new-views), through the `admin.components.views` property of your [Collection Config](../collections/overview).
+
+Here is an example showing what it might look like to swap out Collection Views for your own Custom Views. See [Building Custom Views](#building-custom-views) for exact details on how to build them:
+
+```ts
+import type { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+
+export const MyCollectionConfig: SanitizedCollectionConfig = {
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Edit: MyCustomEditView, // highlight-line
+      },
+    },
+  },
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  The `Edit` property will replace the _entire_ Edit View, including the title, tabs, etc., _as well as all nested [Document Views](#custom-document-views)_, such as the API, Live Preview, and Version views. To replace only the Edit View precisely, use the `Edit.Default` key instead.
+</Banner>
+
+The following options are available:
+
+| Property   | Description                                                                                                       |
+| ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Edit`** | The Edit View is used to edit a single document for any given Collection. [More details](#custom-document-views).     |
+| **`List`** | The List View is used to show a list of documents for any given Collection.                                         |
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  You can also add _new_ Collection Views to the config by adding a new key to the `views` object with at least a `path` and `Component` property. See [Adding New Views](#adding-new-views) for more information.
+</Banner>
+
+## Custom Global Views
+
+Global Views are views that are scoped under the `/globals` route, such as the Document Edit View. You can easily swap out Global Views with your own or [create entirely new ones](#adding-new-views), through the `admin.components.views` property of your [Global Config](../globals/overview).
+
+Here is an example showing what it might look like to swap out Global Views for your own Custom Views. See [Building Custom Views](#building-custom-views) for exact details on how to build them:
+
+```ts
+import type { SanitizedGlobalConfig } from 'payload/types'
+
+export const MyGlobalConfig: SanitizedGlobalConfig = {
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Edit: MyCustomEditView, // highlight-line
+      },
+    },
+  },
+})
+```
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  The `Edit` property will replace the _entire_ Edit View, including the title, tabs, etc., _as well as all nested [Document Views](#custom-document-views)_, such as the API, Live Preview, and Version views. To replace only the Edit View precisely, use the `Edit.Default` key instead.
+</Banner>
+
+The following options are available:
+
+| Property   | Description                                                         |
+| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Edit`** | The Edit View is used to edit a single document for any given Global. [More details](#custom-document-views). |
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  You can also add _new_ Global Views to the config by adding a new key to the `views` object with at least a `path` and `Component` property. See [Adding New Views](#adding-new-views) for more information.
+</Banner>
+
+## Custom Document Views
+
+Document Views are views that are scoped under the `/collections/:collectionSlug/:id` or the `/globals/:globalSlug` route, such as the Edit View. You can easily swap out Document Views with your own or [create entirely new ones](#adding-new-document-views) through the `admin.components.views.Edit[key]` property of either your [Collection Config](../collections/overview) or [Global Config](../globals/overview).
+
+This approach allows you to replace specific nested views while keeping the overall structure of the Edit View intact, including the title, tabs, etc. If you need to replace the _entire_ Edit View, including the nested Document Views, use the `Edit` key itself. See [Custom Collection Views](#custom-collection-views) or [Custom Global Views](#custom-global-views) for more information.
+
+Here's an example showing what it might look like to swap out Document Views for your own Custom Views. See [Building Custom Views](#building-custom-views) for exact details on how to build them:
+
+```ts
+import type { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+
+export const MyCollectionConfig: SanitizedCollectionConfig = {
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Edit: {
+          API: {
+            Component: MyCustomAPIView, // highlight-line
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+})
+```
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+ <strong>Note:</strong>
+ This applies to _both_ Collection _and_ Global configs.
+</Banner>
+
+The following options are available:
+
+| Property          | Description                                                                                                                 |
+| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`Default`**     | The Default view is the primary view in which your document is edited.                                                      |
+| **`Versions`**    | The Versions view is used to view the version history of a single document. [More details](../versions).                    |
+| **`Version`**     | The Version view is used to view a single version of a single document for a given collection. [More details](../versions). |
+| **`API`**         | The API view is used to display the REST API JSON response for a given document.                                            |
+| **`LivePreview`** | The LivePreview view is used to display the Live Preview interface. [More details](../live-preview).                        |
+
+### Document Tabs
+
+Each Document View can be given a new tab in the Edit View, if desired. Tabs are highly configurable, from as simple as changing the label to swapping out the entire component, they can be modified in any way. To add or customize tabs in the Edit View, use the `Component.Tab` key:
+
+```ts
+import type { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+
+export const MyCollection: SanitizedCollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'my-collection',
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Edit: {
+          MyCustomTab: {
+            Component: MyCustomTab,
+            path: '/my-custom-tab',
+            Tab: MyCustomTab // highlight-line
+          },
+          AnotherCustomView: {
+            Component: AnotherCustomView,
+            path: '/another-custom-view',
+            // highlight-start
+            Tab: {
+              label: 'Another Custom View',
+              href: '/another-custom-view',
+            }
+            // highlight-end
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+ <strong>Note:</strong>
+ This applies to _both_ Collections _and_ Globals.
+</Banner>
+
+### Building Custom Views
+
+Custom Views are just [Custom Components](./components) rendered at the page-level. To understand how to build Custom Views, first review the [Building Custom Components](./components#building-custom-components) guide. Once you have a Custom Component ready, you can use it as a Custom View.
+
+```ts
+import type { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { MyCustomView } from './MyCustomView'
+
+export const MyCollectionConfig: SanitizedCollectionConfig = {
+  // ...
+  admin: {
+    components: {
+      views: {
+        Edit: MyCustomView, // highlight-line
+      },
+    },
+  },
+}
+```
+
+Your Custom Views will be provided with the following props:
+
+| Prop                      | Description                                                                                                                            |
+| ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `payload`                 | The [Payload](../local-api/overview) class.                                                                                            |
+| `i18n`                    | The [i18n](../configuration/i18n) object.                                                                                              |
+| `user`                    | The currently logged in user.                                                                                                          |
+| `locale`                  | The current [Locale](../configuration/localization) of the [Admin Panel](./overview).                                                  |
+| `navGroups`               | The grouped navigation items according to `admin.group` in your [Collection Config](../collections/overview) or [Global Config](../globals/overview). |
+| `params`                  | An object containing the [Dynamic Route Parameters](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/dynamic-routes).     |
+| `permissions`             | The permissions of the currently logged in user.                                                                                       |
+| `searchParams`            | An object containing the [Search Parameters](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_URL#parameters).      |
+| `visibleEntities`         | The current user's visible entities according to your [Access Control](../access-control/overview).                                    |
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  <br />
+  It's up to you to secure your custom views. If your view requires a user to be logged in or to
+  have certain access rights, you should handle that within your view component yourself.
+</Banner>

docs/admin/vite.mdx

@@ -1,163 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Vite
-label: Vite
-order: 90
-desc: NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN
----
-
-<Banner type="info">
-  The Vite bundler is currently in beta. If you would like to help us test this package, we'd love
-  to hear from you if you find any [bugs or issues](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/)!
-</Banner>
-
-Payload has a Vite bundler that you can install and bundle the Admin Panel with. This is an alternative to the [Webpack](/docs/admin/webpack) bundler and might give some performance boosts to your development workflow.
-
-To use Vite as your bundler, first you need to install the package:
-
-```bash
-yarn add @payloadcms/bundler-vite
-```
-
-Then you will need to add the [bundler](/docs/admin/bundlers) to your Payload config:
-
-```ts
-import { buildConfig } from '@payloadcms/config'
-import { viteBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-vite'
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  collections: [],
-  admin: {
-    bundler: viteBundler(),
-  },
-})
-```
-
-Vite works fundamentally differently than Webpack. In development mode, it will first pre-bundle any of your dependencies that are CommonJS-only, and then it'll leverage ESM directly in your browser for a better HMR experience.
-
-It then uses Rollup to create production builds of your admin UI. With Vite, you should see a decent performance boost—especially after your first cold start. However, that first cold start might take a few more seconds.
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  In most cases, Vite should work out of the box. But existing Payload plugins may need to make
-  compatibility changes to support Vite.
-</Banner>
-
-This is because Vite aliases work fundamentally differently than Webpack aliases, and Payload relies on aliasing server-only code out of the Payload config to ensure that the bundled admin JS works within your browser.
-
-Here are the main differences between how Vite aliases work and how Webpack aliases work.
-
-**Vite aliases do not work with absolute paths.**
-
-In Vite, alias keys must <strong>exactly match</strong> a import paths. If you have 2 files that import the same server-only module, but have different import paths, you would need to add 2 aliases to support both import paths.
-
-```ts
-// File A
-import serverOnlyModule from '../server-only-module'
-
-// File B
-import serverOnlyModule from '../../server-only-module'
-
-// payload.config.ts
-// You would need to add 2 aliases to support both import paths
-export const buildConfig({
-  collections: [],
-  admin: {
-    bundler: viteBundler(),
-    vite: (incomingViteConfig) => {
-      const existingAliases = incomingViteConfig?.resolve?.alias || {};
-      let aliasArray: { find: string | RegExp; replacement: string; }[] = [];
-
-      // Pass the existing Vite aliases
-      if (Array.isArray(existingAliases)) {
-        aliasArray = existingAliases;
-      } else {
-        aliasArray = Object.values(existingAliases);
-      }
-
-      // Add your own aliases using the find and replacement keys
-      aliasArray.push({
-        find: '../server-only-module',
-        replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, './path/to/browser-safe-module.js')
-        find: '../../server-only-module',
-        replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, './path/to/browser-safe-module.js')
-      });
-
-      return {
-        ...incomingViteConfig,
-        resolve: {
-          ...(incomingViteConfig?.resolve || {}),
-          alias: aliasArray,
-        }
-      };
-    },
-  }
-})
-```
-
-**Vite aliases do not get applied to pre-bundled dependencies.**
-
-This especially affects plugins, as plugins will be pre-bundled by Vite using `esbuild`. To get around this and support Vite, plugin authors need to configure an alias to their plugin at the top level, so that the alias will work accordingly.
-
-Here's an example. Say your plugin is called `payload-plugin-cool`. It's imported as follows:
-
-```ts
-import { myCoolPlugin } from 'payload-plugin-cool'
-```
-
-That plugin should create an alias to support Vite as follows:
-
-```ts
-{
-  // aliases go here
-  find: 'payload-plugin-cool',
-  replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, './my-admin-plugin.js')
-}
-
-```
-
-This will effectively alias the entire plugin and work with Vite. If the plugin requires admin-specific code, then the `./my-admin-plugin.js` alias target file should reflect any changes necessary to the admin UI that the main server-side plugin performs.
-
-### Extending the Vite config
-
-The Payload config supports a new property for plugins to be able to extend the Vite config specifically. That property exists on the main Payload config under `admin.vite`. You can check out the [Vite docs](https://vitejs.dev/config/shared-options.html) for more information on what you can do with the Vite config.
-
-It's a function that takes a Vite config, and returns an updated Vite config. Here's an example:
-
-```ts
-export const buildConfig({
-  collections: [],
-  admin: {
-    bundler: viteBundler(),
-    vite: (incomingViteConfig) => {
-      const existingAliases = incomingViteConfig?.resolve?.alias || {};
-      let aliasArray: { find: string | RegExp; replacement: string; }[] = [];
-
-      // Pass the existing Vite aliases
-      if (Array.isArray(existingAliases)) {
-        aliasArray = existingAliases;
-      } else {
-        aliasArray = Object.values(existingAliases);
-      }
-
-      // Add your own aliases using the find and replacement keys
-      aliasArray.push({
-        find: '../server-only-module',
-        replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, './path/to/browser-safe-module.js')
-      });
-
-      return {
-        ...incomingViteConfig,
-        resolve: {
-          ...(incomingViteConfig?.resolve || {}),
-          alias: aliasArray,
-        }
-      };
-    },
-  }
-})
-```
-
-Learn more about [aliasing server-only modules](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/excluding-server-code#aliasing-server-only-modules).
-
-Even though there is a new property for Vite configs specifically, we have implemented some "compatibility" between Webpack and Vite out-of-the-box.
-
-If your config specifies Webpack aliases, we attempt to leverage them automatically within the Vite config. They are merged into the Vite alias configuration seamlessly and may work out-of-the-box.

docs/admin/webpack.mdx

@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Webpack
-label: Webpack
-order: 80
-desc: The Payload admin panel uses Webpack 5 and supports many common functionalities such as SCSS and Typescript out of the box to give you more freedom.
-keywords: admin, webpack, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
----
-
-Payload has a Webpack (v5) bundler that you can build the Admin panel with. For now, we recommended using it because it is stable. If you are feeling a bit more adventurous you can give the [Vite](/docs/admin/vite) bundler a shot.
-
-Out of the box, the Webpack bundler supports common functionalities such as SCSS and Typescript, but there are many cases where you may need to add support for additional functionalities.
-
-#### Installation
-
-```bash
-yarn add @payloadcms/bundler-webpack
-```
-
-#### Import the bundler
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import { webpackBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-webpack'
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  // highlight-start
-  admin: {
-    bundler: webpackBundler(),
-  },
-  // highlight-end
-})
-```
-
-### Extending Webpack
-
-If you need to extend the Webpack config, you can do so by passing a function to the `admin.webpack` property on your Payload config.
-The function will receive the Webpack config as an argument and should return the modified config.
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-import { webpackBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-webpack'
-
-export default buildConfig({
-  admin: {
-    bundler: webpackBundler()
-    // highlight-start
-    webpack: (config) => {
-      // full control of the Webpack config
-
-      return config
-    },
-    // highlight-end
-  },
-})
-```
-
-<Banner type="success">
-  <strong>Tip:</strong>
-  <br />
-  If changes to your Webpack aliases are not surfacing, they might be
-  [cached](https://webpack.js.org/configuration/cache/) in `node_modules/.cache/webpack`. Try
-  deleting that folder and restarting your server.
-</Banner>

docs/authentication/api-keys.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+---
+title: API Key Strategy
+label: API Key Strategy
+order: 50
+desc: Enable API key based authentication to interface with Payload.
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+To integrate with third-party APIs or services, you might need the ability to generate API keys that can be used to identify as a certain user within Payload. API keys are generated on a user-by-user basis, similar to email and passwords, and are meant to represent a single user.
+
+For example, if you have a third-party service or external app that needs to be able to perform protected actions against Payload, first you need to create a user within Payload, i.e. `dev@thirdparty.com`. From your external application you will need to authenticate with that user, you have two options:
+
+1. Log in each time with that user and receive an expiring token to request with.
+1. Generate a non-expiring API key for that user to request with.
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br/>
+  This is particularly useful as you can create a "user" that reflects an integration with a specific external service and assign a "role" or specific access only needed by that service/integration.
+</Banner>
+
+Technically, both of these options will work for third-party integrations but the second option with API key is simpler, because it reduces the amount of work that your integrations need to do to be authenticated properly.
+
+To enable API keys on a collection, set the `useAPIKey` auth option to `true`. From there, a new interface will appear in the Admin panel for each document within the collection that allows you to generate an API key for each user in the Collection.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const ThirdPartyAccess: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'third-party-access',
+  auth: {
+    useAPIKey: true, // highlight-line
+  },
+  fields: [],
+}
+```
+
+User API keys are encrypted within the database, meaning that if your database is compromised,
+your API keys will not be.
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  <strong>Important:</strong>
+  If you change your `PAYLOAD_SECRET`, you will need to regenerate your API keys.
+  <br />
+  The secret key is used to encrypt the API keys, so if you change the secret, existing API keys will
+  no longer be valid.
+</Banner>
+
+### HTTP Authentication
+
+To authenticate REST or GraphQL API requests using an API key, set the `Authorization` header. The header is case-sensitive and needs the slug of the `auth.useAPIKey` enabled collection, then " API-Key ", followed by the `apiKey` that has been assigned. Payload's built-in middleware will then assign the user document to `req.user` and handle requests with the proper access control. By doing this, Payload recognizes the request being made as a request by the user associated with that API key.
+
+**For example, using Fetch:**
+
+```ts
+import Users from '../collections/Users'
+
+const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pages', {
+  headers: {
+    Authorization: `${Users.slug} API-Key ${YOUR_API_KEY}`,
+  },
+})
+```
+
+Payload ensures that the same, uniform access control is used across all authentication strategies. This enables you to utilize your existing access control configurations with both API keys and the standard email/password authentication. This consistency can aid in maintaining granular control over your API keys.
+
+### API Key Only Auth
+
+If you want to use API keys as the only authentication method for a collection, you can disable the default local strategy by setting `disableLocalStrategy` to `true` on the collection's `auth` property. This will disable the ability to authenticate with email and password, and will only allow for authentication via API key.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const ThirdPartyAccess: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'third-party-access',
+  auth: {
+    useAPIKey: true,
+    disableLocalStrategy: true, // highlight-line
+  },
+}
+```

docs/authentication/config.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Authentication Config
 label: Config
 order: 20
 desc: Enable and customize options in the Authentication config for features including Forgot Password, Login Attempts, API key usage and more.
-keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Payload's Authentication is extremely powerful and gives you everything you need when you go to build a new app or site in a secure and responsible manner.
@@ -13,79 +13,17 @@ To enable Authentication on a collection, define an `auth` property and set it t
 ## Options
 
 | Option                     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| -------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 | **`useAPIKey`**            | Payload Authentication provides for API keys to be set on each user within an Authentication-enabled Collection. [More](/docs/authentication/config#api-keys)                                                                       |
 | **`tokenExpiration`**      | How long (in seconds) to keep the user logged in. JWTs and HTTP-only cookies will both expire at the same time.                                                                                                                     |
 | **`maxLoginAttempts`**     | Only allow a user to attempt logging in X amount of times. Automatically locks out a user from authenticating if this limit is passed. Set to `0` to disable.                                                                       |
 | **`lockTime`**             | Set the time (in milliseconds) that a user should be locked out if they fail authentication more times than `maxLoginAttempts` allows for.                                                                                          |
-| **`depth`**                | How many levels deep a `user` document should be populated when creating the JWT and binding the `user` to the express `req`. Defaults to `0` and should only be modified if absolutely necessary, as this will affect performance. |
+| **`depth`**                | How many levels deep a `user` document should be populated when creating the JWT and binding the `user` to the `req`. Defaults to `0` and should only be modified if absolutely necessary, as this will affect performance. |
 | **`cookies`**              | Set cookie options, including `secure`, `sameSite`, and `domain`. For advanced users.                                                                                                                                               |
 | **`forgotPassword`**       | Customize the way that the `forgotPassword` operation functions. [More](/docs/authentication/config#forgot-password)                                                                                                                |
 | **`verify`**               | Set to `true` or pass an object with verification options to require users to verify by email before they are allowed to log into your app. [More](/docs/authentication/config#email-verification)                                  |
 | **`disableLocalStrategy`** | Advanced - disable Payload's built-in local auth strategy. Only use this property if you have replaced Payload's auth mechanisms with your own.                                                                                     |
-| **`strategies`**           | Advanced - an array of PassportJS authentication strategies to extend this collection's authentication with. [More](/docs/authentication/config#strategies)                                                                         |
-
-### API keys
-
-To integrate with third-party APIs or services, you might need the ability to generate API keys that can be used to identify as a certain user within Payload.
-
-In Payload, users are essentially documents within a collection. Just like you can authenticate as a user with an email and password, which is considered as our default local auth strategy, you can also authenticate as a user with an API key. API keys are generated on a user-by-user basis, similar to email and passwords, and are meant to represent a single user.
-
-For example, if you have a third-party service or external app that needs to be able to perform protected actions at its discretion, you have two options:
-
-1. Create a user for the third-party app, and log in each time to receive a token before you attempt to access any protected actions
-1. Enable API key support for the Collection, where you can generate a non-expiring API key per user in the collection. This is particularly useful as you can create a "user" that reflects an integration with a specific external service and assign a "role" or specific access only needed by that service/integration. Alternatively, you could create a "super admin" user and assign an API key to that user so that any requests made with that API key are considered as being made by that super user.
-
-Technically, both of these options will work for third-party integrations but the second option with API key is simpler, because it reduces the amount of work that your integrations need to do to be authenticated properly.
-
-To enable API keys on a collection, set the `useAPIKey` auth option to `true`. From there, a new interface will appear in the Admin panel for each document within the collection that allows you to generate an API key for each user in the Collection.
-
-<Banner type="success">
-  User API keys are encrypted within the database, meaning that if your database is compromised,
-  your API keys will not be.
-</Banner>
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  <strong>Important:</strong>
-  If you change your `PAYLOAD_SECRET`, you will need to regenerate your API keys.
-  <br />
-  The secret key is used to encrypt the API keys, so if you change the secret, existing API keys will
-  no longer be valid.
-</Banner>
-
-#### Authenticating via API Key
-
-To authenticate REST or GraphQL API requests using an API key, set the `Authorization` header. The header is case-sensitive and needs the slug of the `auth.useAPIKey` enabled collection, then " API-Key ", followed by the `apiKey` that has been assigned. Payload's built-in middleware will then assign the user document to `req.user` and handle requests with the proper access control. By doing this, Payload recognizes the request being made as a request by the user associated with that API key.
-
-**For example, using Fetch:**
-
-```ts
-import User from '../collections/User'
-
-const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pages', {
-  headers: {
-    Authorization: `${User.slug} API-Key ${YOUR_API_KEY}`,
-  },
-})
-```
-
-Payload ensures that the same, uniform access control is used across all authentication strategies. This enables you to utilize your existing access control configurations with both API keys and the standard email/password authentication. This consistency can aid in maintaining granular control over your API keys.
-
-#### API Key _Only_ Authentication
-
-If you want to use API keys as the only authentication method for a collection, you can disable the default local strategy by setting `disableLocalStrategy` to `true` on the collection's `auth` property. This will disable the ability to authenticate with email and password, and will only allow for authentication via API key.
-
-```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
-
-export const Customers: CollectionConfig = {
-  slug: 'customers',
-  auth: {
-    useAPIKey: true,
-    disableLocalStrategy: true,
-  },
-}
-```
+| **`strategies`**           | Advanced - an array of custom authentification strategies to extend this collection's authentication with. [More](/docs/authentication/custom-strategies)                                                                         |
 
 ### Forgot Password
 
@@ -228,31 +166,6 @@ Example:
 }
 ```
 
-### Strategies
-
-As of Payload `1.0.0`, you can add additional authentication strategies to Payload easily by passing them to your collection's `auth.strategies` array.
-
-Behind the scenes, Payload uses PassportJS to power its local authentication strategy, so most strategies listed on the PassportJS website will work seamlessly. Combined with adding custom components to the admin panel's `Login` view, you can create advanced authentication strategies directly within Payload.
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  This is an advanced feature, so only attempt this if you are an experienced developer. Otherwise,
-  just let Payload's built-in authentication handle user auth for you.
-</Banner>
-
-The `strategies` property is an array that takes objects with the following properties:
-
-**`strategy`**
-
-This property can accept a Passport strategy directly, or you can pass a function that takes a `payload` argument, and returns a Passport strategy.
-
-**`name`**
-
-If you pass a strategy to the `strategy` property directly, the `name` property is optional and allows you to override the strategy's built-in name.
-
-However, if you pass a function to `strategy`, `name` is a required property.
-
-In either case, Payload will prefix the strategy name with the collection `slug` that the strategy is passed to.
-
 ### Admin autologin
 
 For testing and demo purposes you may want to skip forcing the admin user to login in order to access the panel.

docs/authentication/custom-strategies.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+---
+title: Custom Strategies
+label: Custom Strategies
+order: 60
+desc: Create custom authentication strategies to handle everything auth in Payload.
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, overview, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  This is an advanced feature, so only attempt this if you are an experienced developer. Otherwise,
+  just let Payload's built-in authentication handle user auth for you.
+</Banner>
+
+### Creating a strategy
+
+At the core, a strategy is a way to authenticate a user making a request. As of `3.0` we moved away from passportJS in favor of pulling back the curtain and putting you in full control.
+
+A strategy is made up of the following:
+
+| Parameter                   | Description                                                               |
+| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`name`** \*               | The name of your strategy                                                 |
+| **`authenticate`**&nbsp;\*  | A function that takes in the parameters below and returns a user or null. |
+
+The `authenticate` function is passed the following arguments:
+
+| Argument            | Description                                                                                       |
+| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`headers`** \*    | The headers on the incoming request. Useful for retrieving identifiable information on a request. |
+| **`payload`** \*    | The Payload class. Useful for authenticating the identifiable information against Payload.        |
+| **`isGraphQL`**     | Whether or not the request was made from a GraphQL endpoint. Default is `false`.                  |
+
+
+### Example Strategy
+
+At its core a strategy simply takes information from the incoming request and returns a user. This is exactly how Payload's built-in strategies function.
+
+Your `authenticate` method should return an object containing a Payload user document and any optional headers that you'd like Payload to set for you when we return a response.
+
+```ts
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const Users: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'users',
+  auth: {
+    disableLocalStrategy: true,
+    // highlight-start
+    strategies: [
+      {
+        name: 'custom-strategy',
+        authenticate: ({ payload, headers }) => {
+          const usersQuery = await payload.find({
+            collection: 'users',
+            where: {
+              code: {
+                equals: headers.get('code'),
+              },
+              secret: {
+                equals: headers.get('secret'),
+              },
+            },
+          })
+
+          return {
+            // Send the user back to authenticate,
+            // or send null if no user should be authenticated
+            user: usersQuery.docs[0] || null,
+
+            // Optionally, you can return headers
+            // that you'd like Payload to set here when
+            // it returns the response
+            responseHeaders: new Headers({
+              'some-header': 'my header value'
+            })
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+    // highlight-end
+  },
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'code',
+      type: 'text',
+      index: true,
+      unique: true,
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'secret',
+      type: 'text',
+    },
+  ]
+}
+```

docs/authentication/http-only-cookies.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+---
+title: Cookie Strategy
+label: Cookie Strategy
+order: 30
+desc: Enable HTTP Cookie based authentication to interface with Payload.
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+Payload `login`, `logout`, and `refresh` operations make use of HTTP-only cookies for authentication purposes.
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br />
+  You can access the logged-in user from access control functions and hooks from the `req.user` property.
+  <br />
+  [Learn more about token data](/docs/authentication/token-data).
+</Banner>
+
+### Automatic browser inclusion
+
+Modern browsers automatically include `http-only` cookies when making requests directly to URLs—meaning that if you are running your API on `https://example.com`, and you have logged in and visit `https://example.com/test-page`, your browser will automatically include the Payload authentication cookie for you.
+
+### HTTP Authentication
+
+However, if you use `fetch` or similar APIs to retrieve Payload resources from its REST or GraphQL API, you must specify to include credentials (cookies).
+
+Fetch example, including credentials:
+
+```ts
+const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pages', {
+  credentials: 'include',
+})
+
+const pages = await response.json()
+```
+
+For more about including cookies in requests from your app to your Payload API, [read the MDN docs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch#Sending_a_request_with_credentials_included).
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br />
+  To make sure you have a Payload cookie set properly in your browser after logging in, you can use
+  the browsers Developer Tools > Application > Cookies > [your-domain-here]. The Developer tools
+  will still show HTTP-only cookies.
+</Banner>
+
+### CSRF Attacks
+
+CSRF (cross-site request forgery) attacks are common and dangerous. By using an HTTP-only cookie, Payload removes many XSS vulnerabilities, however, CSRF attacks can still be possible.
+
+For example, let's say you have a popular app `https://payload-finances.com` that allows users to manage finances, send and receive money. As Payload is using HTTP-only cookies, that means that browsers automatically will include cookies when sending requests to your domain - <strong>no matter what page created the request</strong>.
+
+So, if a user of `https://payload-finances.com` is logged in and is browsing around on the internet, they might stumble onto a page with malicious intent. Let's look at an example:
+
+```ts
+// malicious-intent.com
+// makes an authenticated request as on your behalf
+
+const maliciousRequest = await fetch(`https://payload-finances.com/api/me`, {
+  credentials: 'include'
+}).then(res => await res.json())
+```
+
+In this scenario, if your cookie was still valid, malicious-intent.com would be able to make requests like the one above on your behalf. This is a CSRF attack.
+
+### CSRF Prevention
+
+Define domains that your trust and are willing to accept Payload HTTP-only cookie based requests from. Use the `csrf` option on the base Payload config to do this:
+
+```ts
+// payload.config.ts
+
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  serverURL: 'https://my-payload-instance.com',
+  // highlight-start
+  csrf: [
+    // whitelist of domains to allow cookie auth from
+    'https://your-frontend-app.com',
+    'https://your-other-frontend-app.com',
+    // `config.serverURL` is added by default if defined
+  ],
+  // highlight-end
+  collections: [
+    // collections here
+  ],
+})
+
+export default config
+```

docs/authentication/jwt.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+---
+title: JWT Strategy
+label: JWT Strategy
+order: 40
+desc: Enable JSON Web Token based authentication to interface with Payload.
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+Payload offers the ability to authenticate via `JWT` (JSON web token). These can be read from the responses of `login`, `refresh`, and `me` auth operations.
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br />
+  You can access the logged-in user from access control functions and hooks from the `req.user` property.
+  <br />
+  [Learn more about token data](/docs/authentication/token-data).
+</Banner>
+
+### Identifying Users Via The Authorization Header
+
+In addition to authenticating via an HTTP-only cookie, you can also identify users via the `Authorization` header on an HTTP request.
+
+Example:
+
+```ts
+const user = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/users/login', {
+  method: 'POST',
+  body: JSON.stringify({
+    email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
+    password: 'password',
+  })
+}).then(req => await req.json())
+
+const request = await fetch('http://localhost:3000', {
+  headers: {
+    Authorization: `JWT ${user.token}`,
+  },
+})
+```
+
+### Omitting The Token
+
+In some cases you may want to prevent the token from being returned from the auth operations. You can do that by setting `removeTokenFromResponse` to `true` like so:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const UsersWithoutJWTs: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'users-without-jwts',
+  auth: {
+    removeTokenFromRepsonse: true, // highlight-line
+  },
+}
+```

docs/authentication/operations.mdx

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 ---
 title: Authentication Operations
 label: Operations
-order: 30
+order: 80
 desc: Enabling Authentication automatically makes key operations available such as Login, Logout, Verify, Unlock, Reset Password and more.
-keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Enabling Authentication on a Collection automatically exposes additional auth-based operations in the Local, REST, and GraphQL APIs.
 
-### Access
+## Access
 
 The Access operation returns what a logged in user can and can't do with the collections and globals that are registered via your config. This data can be immensely helpful if your app needs to show and hide certain features based on access control, as the Payload Admin panel does.
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ query {
 
 Document access can also be queried on a collection/global basis. Access on a global can queried like `http://localhost:3000/api/global-slug/access`, Collection document access can be queried like `http://localhost:3000/api/collection-slug/access/:id`.
 
-### Me
+## Me
 
 Returns either a logged in user with token or null when there is no logged in user.
 
@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ query {
 }
 ```
 
-### Login
+## Login
 
-Accepts an `email` and `password`. On success, it will return the logged in user as well as a token that can be used to authenticate. In the GraphQL and REST APIs, this operation also automatically sets an HTTP-only cookie including the user's token. If you pass an Express `res` to the Local API operation, Payload will set a cookie there as well.
+Accepts an `email` and `password`. On success, it will return the logged in user as well as a token that can be used to authenticate. In the GraphQL and REST APIs, this operation also automatically sets an HTTP-only cookie including the user's token. If you pass a `res` to the Local API operation, Payload will set a cookie there as well.
 
 **Example REST API login**:
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ const result = await payload.login({
 })
 ```
 
-### Logout
+## Logout
 
 As Payload sets HTTP-only cookies, logging out cannot be done by just removing a cookie in JavaScript, as HTTP-only cookies are inaccessible by JS within the browser. So, Payload exposes a `logout` operation to delete the token in a safe way.
 
@@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ mutation {
 }
 ```
 
-### Refresh
+## Refresh
 
-Allows for "refreshing" JWTs. If your user has a token that is about to expire, but the user is still active and using the app, you might want to use the `refresh` operation to receive a new token by sending the operation the token that is about to expire.
+Allows for "refreshing" JWTs. If your user has a token that is about to expire, but the user is still active and using the app, you might want to use the `refresh` operation to receive a new token by executing this operation via the authenticated user.
 
 This operation requires a non-expired token to send back a new one. If the user's token has already expired, you will need to allow them to log in again to retrieve a new token.
 
@@ -237,14 +237,7 @@ mutation {
 }
 ```
 
-<Banner type="success">
-  The Refresh operation will automatically find the user's token in either a JWT header or the
-  HTTP-only cookie. But, you can specify the token you're looking to refresh by providing the REST
-  API with a `token` within the JSON body of the request, or by providing the GraphQL resolver a
-  `token` arg.
-</Banner>
-
-### Verify by Email
+## Verify by Email
 
 If your collection supports email verification, the Verify operation will be exposed which accepts a verification token and sets the user's `_verified` property to `true`, thereby allowing the user to authenticate with the Payload API.
 
@@ -276,7 +269,7 @@ const result = await payload.verifyEmail({
 })
 ```
 
-### Unlock
+## Unlock
 
 If a user locks themselves out and you wish to deliberately unlock them, you can utilize the Unlock operation. The Admin panel features an Unlock control automatically for all collections that feature max login attempts, but you can programmatically unlock users as well by using the Unlock operation.
 
@@ -309,7 +302,7 @@ const result = await payload.unlock({
 })
 ```
 
-### Forgot Password
+## Forgot Password
 
 Payload comes with built-in forgot password functionality. Submitting an email address to the Forgot Password operation will generate an email and send it to the respective email address with a link to reset their password.
 
@@ -361,7 +354,7 @@ const token = await payload.forgotPassword({
   use the token to "reset" their password.
 </Banner>
 
-### Reset Password
+## Reset Password
 
 After a user has "forgotten" their password and a token is generated, that token can be used to send to the reset password operation along with a new password which will allow the user to reset their password securely.
 

docs/authentication/overview.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Authentication Overview
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: Payload provides highly secure user Authentication out of the box, and you can fully customize, override, or remove the default Authentication support.
-keywords: authentication, config, configuration, overview, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, overview, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <YouTube
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ _Admin panel screenshot depicting an Admins Collection with Auth enabled_
 
 By default, Payload provides you with a `User` collection that supports Authentication, which is used to access the Admin panel. But, you can add support to one or many Collections of your own. For more information on how to customize, override, or remove the default `User` collection, [click here](/docs/admin/overview#the-admin-user-collection).
 
-### Enabling Auth on a collection
+## Enabling Auth on a collection
 
 Every Payload Collection can opt-in to supporting Authentication by specifying the `auth` property on the Collection's config to either `true` or to an object containing `auth` options.
 
@@ -71,106 +71,34 @@ export const Admins: CollectionConfig = {
 
 Once enabled, each document that is created within the Collection can be thought of as a `user` - who can make use of commonly required authentication functions such as logging in / out, resetting their password, and more.
 
-### Logging in / out, resetting password, etc.
+## Authentication Strategies
+
+Out of the box Payload ships with a few powerful authentication strategies. HTTP-Only Cookies, JWT's and API-Keys, they can work together or individually. You can also have multiple collections that have auth enabled, but only 1 of them can be used to log into the admin panel.
+
+### HTTP-Only Cookies
+
+HTTP-only cookies are a highly secure method of storing identifiable data on a user's device so that Payload can automatically recognize a returning user until their cookie expires. They are totally protected from common XSS attacks and <strong>cannot be read by JavaScript in the browser</strong>, unlike JWT's.
+
+You can learn more about this strategy from the [HTTP-Only Cookies](/docs/authentication/http-only-cookies) docs.
+
+### JSON Web Tokens
+
+JWT (JSON Web Tokens) can also be utilized to perform authentication. Tokens are generated on `login`, `refresh` and `me` operations and can be attached to future requests to authenticate users.
+
+You can learn more about this strategy from the [JWT](/docs/authentication/jwt) docs.
+
+### API Keys
+
+API Keys can be enabled on auth collections. These are particularly useful when you want to authenticate against Payload from a third party service.
+
+You can learn more about this strategy from the [API Keys](/docs/authentication/api-keys) docs.
+
+### Custom Strategies
+
+There are cases where these may not be enough for your application. Payload is extendable by design so you can wire up your own strategy when you need to.
+
+You can learn more about custom strategies from the [Custom Strategies](/docs/authentication/custom-strategies) docs.
+
+## Logging in / out, resetting password, etc.
 
 [Click here](/docs/authentication/operations) for a list of all automatically-enabled Auth operations, including `login`, `logout`, `refresh`, and others.
-
-### Token-based auth
-
-Successfully logging in returns a `JWT` (JSON web token) which is how a user will identify themselves to Payload. By providing this JWT via either an HTTP-only cookie or an `Authorization: JWT` or `Authorization: Bearer` header, Payload will automatically identify the user and add its user JWT data to the Express `req`, which is available throughout Payload including within access control, hooks, and more.
-
-You can specify what data gets encoded to the JWT token by setting `saveToJWT` to true in your auth collection fields. If you wish to use a different key other than the field `name`, you can provide it to `saveToJWT` as a string. It is also possible to use `saveToJWT` on fields that are nested in inside groups and tabs. If a group has a `saveToJWT` set it will include the object with all sub-fields in the token. You can set `saveToJWT: false` for any fields you wish to omit. If a field inside a group has `saveToJWT` set, but the group does not, the field will be included at the top level of the token.
-
-<Banner type="success">
-  <strong>Tip:</strong>
-  <br />
-  You can access the logged-in user from access control functions and hooks via the Express{' '}
-  <strong>req</strong>. The logged-in user is automatically added as the <strong>user</strong>{' '}
-  property.
-</Banner>
-
-### HTTP-only cookies
-
-Payload `login`, `logout`, and `refresh` operations make use of HTTP-only cookies for authentication purposes. HTTP-only cookies are a highly secure method of storing identifiable data on a user's device so that Payload can automatically recognize a returning user until their cookie expires. They are totally protected from common XSS attacks and cannot be read at all via JavaScript in the browser.
-
-##### Automatic browser inclusion
-
-Modern browsers automatically include `http-only` cookies when making requests directly to URLs—meaning that if you are running your API on http://example.com, and you have logged in and visit http://example.com/test-page, your browser will automatically include the Payload authentication cookie for you.
-
-##### Using Fetch or other HTTP APIs
-
-However, if you use `fetch` or similar APIs to retrieve Payload resources from its REST or GraphQL API, you need to specify to include credentials (cookies).
-
-Fetch example, including credentials:
-
-```ts
-const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pages', {
-  credentials: 'include',
-})
-
-const pages = await response.json()
-```
-
-For more about how to automatically include cookies in requests from your app to your Payload API, [click here](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch#Sending_a_request_with_credentials_included).
-
-<Banner type="success">
-  <strong>Tip:</strong>
-  <br />
-  To make sure you have a Payload cookie set properly in your browser after logging in, you can use
-  Chrome's Developer Tools - Application - Cookies - [your-domain-here]. The Chrome Developer tools
-  will still show HTTP-only cookies, even when JavaScript running on the page can't.
-</Banner>
-
-### CSRF Protection
-
-CSRF (cross-site request forgery) attacks are common and dangerous. By using an HTTP-only cookie, Payload removes many XSS vulnerabilities, however, CSRF attacks can still be possible.
-
-For example, let's say you have a very popular app running at coolsite.com. This app allows users to manage finances and send / receive money. As Payload is using HTTP-only cookies, that means that browsers automatically will include cookies when sending requests to your domain - no matter what page created the request.
-
-So, if a user of coolsite.com is logged in and just browsing around on the internet, they might stumble onto a page with bad intentions. That bad page might automatically make requests to all sorts of sites to see if they can find one that they can log into - and coolsite.com might be on their list. If your user was logged in while they visited that evil site, the attacker could do whatever they wanted as if they were your coolsite.com user by just sending requests to the coolsite API (which would automatically include the auth cookie). They could send themselves a bunch of money from your user's account, change the user's password, etc. This is what a CSRF attack is.
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  <strong>
-    To protect against CSRF attacks, Payload only accepts cookie-based authentication from domains
-    that you explicitly whitelist.
-  </strong>
-</Banner>
-
-To define domains that should allow users to identify themselves via the Payload HTTP-only cookie, use the `csrf` option on the base Payload config to whitelist domains that you trust.
-
-`payload.config.ts`:
-
-```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
-
-const config = buildConfig({
-  collections: [
-    // collections here
-  ],
-  // highlight-start
-  csrf: [
-    // whitelist of domains to allow cookie auth from
-    'https://your-frontend-app.com',
-    'https://your-other-frontend-app.com',
-  ],
-  // highlight-end
-})
-
-export default config
-```
-
-### Identifying users via the Authorization Header
-
-In addition to authenticating via an HTTP-only cookie, you can also identify users via the `Authorization` header on an HTTP request.
-
-Example:
-
-```ts
-const request = await fetch('http://localhost:3000', {
-  headers: {
-    Authorization: `JWT ${token}`,
-  },
-})
-```
-
-You can retrieve a user's token via the response to `login`, `refresh`, and `me` auth operations.

docs/authentication/token-data.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+---
+title: Token Data
+label: Token Data
+order: 70
+desc: Storing data for read on the request object.
+keywords: authentication, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+During the lifecycle of a request you will be able to access the data you have configured to be stored in the JWT by accessing `req.user`. The user object is automatically appeneded to the request for you.
+
+### Definining Token Data
+
+You can specify what data gets encoded to the Cookie/JWT-Token by setting `saveToJWT` property on fields within your auth collection.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const Users: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'users',
+  auth: true,
+  fields: [
+    {
+      // will be stored in the JWT
+      saveToJWT: true,
+      type: 'select',
+      name: 'role',
+      options: [
+        'super-admin',
+        'user',
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      // the entire object will be stored in the JWT
+      // tab fields can do the same thing!
+      saveToJWT: true,
+      type: 'group',
+      name: 'group1',
+      fields: [
+        {
+          type: 'text',
+          name: 'includeField',
+        },
+        {
+          // will be omitted from the JWT
+          saveToJWT: false,
+          type: 'text',
+          name: 'omitField',
+        },
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      type: 'group',
+      name: 'group2',
+      fields: [
+        {
+          // will be stored in the JWT
+          // but stored at the top level
+          saveToJWT: true,
+          type: 'text',
+          name: 'includeField',
+        },
+        {
+          type: 'text',
+          name: 'omitField',
+        },
+      ]
+    },
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Tip:</strong>
+  <br/>
+  If you wish to use a different key other than the field `name`, you can define `saveToJWT` as a string.
+</Banner>
+
+
+### Using Token Data
+
+This is especially helful when writing hooks and access control that depend on user defined fields.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export const Invoices: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'invoices',
+  access: {
+    read: ({ req, data }) => {
+      if (!req?.user) return false
+      // highlight-start
+      if ({ req.user?.role === 'super-admin'}) {
+        return true
+      }
+      // highlight-end
+      return data.owner === req.user.id
+    }
+  }
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'owner',
+      relationTo: 'users'
+    },
+    // ... other fields
+  ],
+}
+```

docs/authentication/using-middleware.mdx

@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Using the Payload Auth Middleware
-label: Using the Middleware
-order: 40
-desc: Make full use of Payload's built-in authentication with your own custom Express endpoints by adding Payload's authentication middleware.
-keywords: authentication, middleware, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
----
-
-Because Payload uses your existing Express server, you are free to add whatever logic you need to your app through endpoints of your own. However, Payload does not add its middleware to your Express app itself—instead, it scopes all of its middleware to Payload-specific routers.
-
-This approach has a ton of benefits - it's great for isolation of concerns and limiting scope, but it also means that your additional routes won't have access to Payload's user authentication.
-
-<Banner type="success">
-  You can make full use of Payload's built-in authentication within your own custom Express
-  endpoints by adding Payload's authentication middleware.
-</Banner>
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  Payload must be initialized before the `payload.authenticate` middleware can be used. This is done
-  by calling `payload.init()` prior to adding the middleware.
-</Banner>
-
-Example in `server.js`:
-
-```ts
-import express from 'express'
-import payload from 'payload'
-
-const app = express()
-
-const start = async () => {
-  await payload.init({
-    secret: 'PAYLOAD_SECRET_KEY',
-    express: app,
-  })
-
-  const router = express.Router()
-
-  // Note: Payload must be initialized before the `payload.authenticate` middleware can be used
-  router.use(payload.authenticate) // highlight-line
-
-  router.get('/', (req, res) => {
-    if (req.user) {
-      return res.send(`Authenticated successfully as ${req.user.email}.`)
-    }
-
-    return res.send('Not authenticated')
-  })
-
-  app.use('/some-route-here', router)
-
-  app.listen(3000)
-}
-
-start()
-```

docs/cloud/configuration.mdx

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ desc: Quickly configure and deploy your Payload Cloud project in a few simple st
 keywords: configuration, config, settings, project, cloud, payload cloud, deploy, deployment
 ---
 
-### Select your plan
+## Select your plan
 
 Once you have created a project, you will need to select your plan. This will determine the resources that are allocated to your project and the features that are available to you.
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Once you have created a project, you will need to select your plan. This will de
   anytime.
 </Banner>
 
-### Project Details
+## Project Details
 
 | Option           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Once you have created a project, you will need to select your plan. This will de
 | **Project Slug** | Choose a unique slug to identify your project. This needs to be unique for your team and you can change it any time.                                                                                                                          |
 | **Team**         | Select the team you want to create the project under. If this is your first project, a personal team will be created for you automatically. You can modify your team settings and invite new members at any time from the Team Settings page. |
 
-### Build Settings
+## Build Settings
 
 If you are deploying a new project from a template, the following settings will be automatically configured for you. If you are using your own repository, you need to make sure your build settings are accurate for your project to deploy correctly.
 
@@ -39,17 +39,17 @@ If you are deploying a new project from a template, the following settings will
 | **Branch to Deploy** | Select the branch of your repository that you want to deploy from. This is the branch that will be used to build your project when you commit new changes.        |
 | **Default Domain**   | Set a default domain for your project. This must be unique and you will not able to change it. You can always add a custom domain later in your project settings. |
 
-### Environment Variables
+## Environment Variables
 
 Any of the features in Payload Cloud that require environment variables will automatically be provided to your application. If your app requires any custom environment variables, you can set them here.
 
 <Banner type="warning">
   Note: For security reasons, any variables you wish to provide to the Admin panel must be prefixed
-  with `PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_`.  Learn more
-  [here](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/webpack#admin-environment-vars).
+  with `NEXT_PUBLIC_`.  Learn more
+  [here](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/environment-vars).
 </Banner>
 
-### Payment
+## Payment
 
 Payment methods can be set per project and can be updated any time. You can use team’s default payment method, or add a new one. Modify your payment methods in your Project settings / Team settings.
 

docs/cloud/projects.mdx

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ desc: Manage your Payload Cloud projects.
 keywords: cloud, payload cloud, projects, project, overview, database, file storage, build settings, environment variables, custom domains, email, developing locally
 ---
 
-### Overview
+## Overview
 
 <Banner>
   The overview tab shows your most recent deployment, along with build and deployment logs. From
@@ -18,19 +18,19 @@ keywords: cloud, payload cloud, projects, project, overview, database, file stor
 ![Payload Cloud Overview Page](https://payloadcms.com/images/docs/cloud/overview-page.jpg)
 _A screenshot of the Overview page for a Cloud project._
 
-### Database
+## Database
 
 Your Payload Cloud project comes with a MongoDB serverless Atlas DB instance or a Dedicated Atlas cluster, depending on your plan. To interact with your cloud database, you will be provided with a MongoDB connection string. This can be found under the **Database** tab of your project.
 
 `mongodb+srv://your_connection_string`
 
-### File Storage
+## File Storage
 
 Payload Cloud gives you S3 file storage backed by Cloudflare as a CDN, and this plugin extends Payload so that all of your media will be stored in S3 rather than locally.
 
 AWS Cognito is used for authentication to your S3 bucket. The [Payload Cloud Plugin](https://github.com/payloadcms/plugin-cloud) will automatically pick up these values. These values are only if you'd like to access your files directly, outside of Payload Cloud.
 
-#### Accessing Files Outside of Payload Cloud
+### Accessing Files Outside of Payload Cloud
 
 If you'd like to access your files outside of Payload Cloud, you'll need to retrieve some values from your project's settings and put them into your environment variables. In Payload Cloud, navigate to the File Storage tab and copy the values using the copy button. Put these values in your .env file. Also copy the Cognito Password value separately and put into your .env file as well.
 
@@ -50,21 +50,21 @@ PAYLOAD_CLOUD_COGNITO_PASSWORD=
 
 The plugin will pick up these values and use them to access your files.
 
-### Build Settings
+## Build Settings
 
 You can update settings from your Project’s Settings tab. Changes to your build settings will trigger a redeployment of your project.
 
-### Environment Variables
+## Environment Variables
 
 From the Environment Variables page of the Settings tab, you can add, update and delete variables for use in your project. Like build settings, these changes will trigger a redeployment of your project.
 
 <Banner>
   Note: For security reasons, any variables you wish to provide to the Admin panel must be prefixed
   with `PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_`.  Learn more
-  [here](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/webpack#admin-environment-vars).
+  [here](https://payloadcms.com/docs/admin/environment-vars).
 </Banner>
 
-### Custom Domains
+## Custom Domains
 
 With Payload Cloud, you can add custom domain names to your project. To do so, first go to the Domains page of the Settings tab of your project. Here you can see your default domain. To add a new domain, type in the domain name you wish to use.
 
@@ -84,19 +84,19 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-### Email
+## Email
 
 Powered by [Resend](https://resend.com), Payload Cloud comes with integrated email support out of the box. No configuration is needed, and you can use `payload.sendEmail()` to send email right from your Payload app. To learn more about sending email with Payload, checkout the [Email Configuration](https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview) overview.
 
 If you are on the Pro or Enterprise plan, you can add your own custom Email domain name. From the Email page of your project’s Settings, add the domain you wish to use for email delivery. This will generate a set of DNS records. Add these records to your DNS provider and click verify to check that your records are resolving properly. Once verified, your emails will now be sent from your custom domain name.
 
-### Developing Locally
+## Developing Locally
 
 To make changes to your project, you will need to clone the repository defined in your project settings to your local machine. In order to run your project locally, you will need configure your local environment first. Refer to your repository’s `README.md` file to see the steps needed for your specific template.
 
 From there, you are ready to make updates to your project. When you are ready to make your changes live, commit your changes to the branch you specified in your Project settings, and your application will automatically trigger a redeploy and build from your latest commit.
 
-### Cloud Plugin
+## Cloud Plugin
 
 Projects generated from a template will come pre-configured with the official Cloud Plugin, but if you are using your own repository you will need to add this into your project. To do so, add the plugin to your Payload config:
 
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
   over Payload Cloud's email service.
 </Banner>
 
-##### **Optional configuration**
+#### **Optional configuration**
 
 If you wish to opt-out of any Payload cloud features, the plugin also accepts options to do so.
 

docs/cloud/teams.mdx

@@ -14,22 +14,22 @@ keywords: team, teams, billing, subscription, payment, plan, plans, cloud, paylo
 ![Payload Cloud Team Settings](https://payloadcms.com/images/docs/cloud/team-settings.jpg)
 _A screenshot of the Team Settings page._
 
-### Members
+## Members
 
 Each team has members that can interact with your projects. You can invite multiple people to your team and each individual can belong to more than one team. You can assign them either `owner` or `user` permissions. Owners are able to make admin-only changes, such as deleting projects, and editing billing information.
 
-### Adding Members
+## Adding Members
 
 To add a new member to your team, visit your Team’s Settings page, and click “Invite Teammate”. You can then add their email address, and assign their role. Press “Save” to send the invitations, which will send an email to the invited team member where they can create a new account.
 
-### Billing
+## Billing
 
 Users can update billing settings and subscriptions for any teams where they are designated as an `owner`. To make updates to the team’s payment methods, visit the Billing page under the Team Settings tab. You can add new cards, delete cards, and set a payment method as a default. The default payment method will be used in the event that another payment method fails.
 
-### Subscriptions
+## Subscriptions
 
 From the Subscriptions page, a team owner can see all current plans for their team. From here, you can see the price of each plan, if there is an active trial, and when you will be billed next.
 
-### Invoices
+## Invoices
 
 The Invoices page will you show you the invoices for your account, as well as the status on their payment.

docs/configuration/collections.mdx

@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@ title: Collection Configs
 label: Collections
 order: 20
 desc: Structure your Collections for your needs by defining fields, adding slugs and labels, establishing access control, tying in hooks, setting timestamps and more.
-keywords: collections, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: collections, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-Payload Collections are defined through configs of their own, and you can define as many as your application needs. Each
-Collection will scaffold a new collection automatically in your database of choice, based on fields that you define.
+Payload Collections are defined through configs of their own, and you can define as many as your application needs. Each Collection will scaffold a new collection automatically in your database of choice, based on fields that you define.
 
 It's often best practice to write your Collections in separate files and then import them into the main Payload config.
 
@@ -35,10 +34,10 @@ It's often best practice to write your Collections in separate files and then im
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-#### Simple collection example
+### Simple collection example
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export const Orders: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'orders',
@@ -58,13 +57,15 @@ export const Orders: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-#### More collection config examples
+### More collection config examples
 
 You can find an assortment
 of [example collection configs](https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo/tree/master/src/payload/collections) in the Public
 Demo source code on GitHub.
 
-### Admin options
+You can also find full, ready-to-go [Ecommerce](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/templates/ecommerce) and [Website](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/templates/website) templates on our GitHub repo.
+
+## Admin options
 
 You can customize the way that the Admin panel behaves on a collection-by-collection basis by defining the `admin`
 property on a collection's config.
@@ -80,13 +81,14 @@ property on a collection's config.
 | `hideAPIURL`                 | Hides the "API URL" meta field while editing documents within this collection.                                                                                                                        |
 | `enableRichTextLink`         | The [Rich Text](/docs/fields/rich-text) field features a `Link` element which allows for users to automatically reference related documents within their rich text. Set to `true` by default.         |
 | `enableRichTextRelationship` | The [Rich Text](/docs/fields/rich-text) field features a `Relationship` element which allows for users to automatically reference related documents within their rich text. Set to `true` by default. |
+| `meta`                       | Metadata overrides to apply to the [Admin panel](../admin/overview). Included properties are `description` and `openGraph`.                                                                           |
 | `preview`                    | Function to generate preview URLS within the Admin panel that can point to your app. [More](#preview).                                                                                                |
 | `livePreview`                | Enable real-time editing for instant visual feedback of your front-end application. [More](/docs/live-preview/overview).                                                                              |
 | `components`                 | Swap in your own React components to be used within this collection. [More](/docs/admin/components#collections)                                                                                       |
 | `listSearchableFields`       | Specify which fields should be searched in the List search view. [More](#list-searchable-fields)                                                                                                      |
 | **`pagination`**             | Set pagination-specific options for this collection. [More](#pagination)                                                                                                                              |
 
-### Preview
+## Preview
 
 Collection `admin` options can accept a `preview` function that will be used to generate a link pointing to the frontend
 of your app to preview data.
@@ -97,12 +99,12 @@ Clicking the Preview button will link to the URL that is generated by the functi
 **The preview function accepts two arguments:**
 
 1. The document being edited
-1. An `options` object, containing `locale` and `token` properties. The `token` is the currently logged-in user's JWT.
+1. An `options` object, containing `locale`, `req` and `token` properties. The `token` is the currently logged-in user's JWT.
 
 **Example collection with preview function:**
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'posts',
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ export const Posts: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Pagination
+## Pagination
 
 Here are a few options that you can specify options for pagination on a collection-by-collection basis:
 
@@ -134,23 +136,23 @@ Here are a few options that you can specify options for pagination on a collecti
 | `defaultLimit` | Integer that specifies the default per-page limit that should be used. Defaults to 10.              |
 | `limits`       | Provide an array of integers to use as per-page options for admins to choose from in the List view. |
 
-### Access control
+## Access control
 
 You can specify extremely granular access control (what users can do with documents in a collection) on a collection by
 collection basis. To learn more, go to the [Access Control](/docs/access-control/overview) docs.
 
-### Hooks
+## Hooks
 
 Hooks are a powerful way to extend collection functionality and execute your own logic, and can be defined on a
 collection by collection basis. To learn more, go to the [Hooks](/docs/hooks/overview) documentation.
 
-### Field types
+## Field types
 
 Collections support all field types that Payload has to offer—including simple fields like text and checkboxes all the
 way to more complicated layout-building field groups like Blocks. [Click here](/docs/fields/overview) to learn more
 about field types.
 
-### List Searchable Fields
+## List Searchable Fields
 
 In the List view, there is a "search" box that allows you to quickly find a document with a search. By default, it
 searches on the ID field. If you have `admin.useAsTitle` defined, the list search will use that field. However, you can
@@ -168,19 +170,19 @@ those three fields plus the ID field.
   so your admin queries can remain performant.
 </Banner>
 
-### TypeScript
+## TypeScript
 
 You can import collection types as follows:
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 // This is the type used for incoming collection configs.
 // Only the bare minimum properties are marked as required.
 ```
 
 ```ts
-import { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { SanitizedCollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 // This is the type used after an incoming collection config is fully sanitized.
 // Generally, this is only used internally by Payload.

docs/configuration/express.mdx

@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Express
-label: Express
-order: 60
-desc: Payload utilizes Express middleware packages, you can customize how they work by passing in configuration options.
-keywords: config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
----
-
-Payload utilizes a few Express-specific middleware packages within its own routers. You can customize how they work by passing in configuration options to the main Payload config's `express` property.
-
-### Custom Middleware
-
-Payload allows you to pass in custom Express middleware to be used on all of the routes it opens. This is useful for adding logging or any other custom functionality to your endpoints.
-
-There are 2 exposed properties. Each property is an array of middleware functions.
-
-- `preMiddleware` - runs before any of the Payload middleware
-- `postMiddleware` - runs after all of the Payload middleware
-
-```ts
-{
-  express: {
-    preMiddleware: [
-      (req, res, next) => {
-        // do something
-        next()
-      }
-    ],
-    postMiddleware: [
-      (req, res, next) => {
-        // do something
-        next()
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}
-
-// Example logging middleware function
-const requestLoggerMiddleware = (req, res, next) => {
-  req.payload.logger.info(`request: ${req.method} ${req.url}`)
-  next()
-}
-```
-
-### JSON
-
-`express.json()` is used to parse JSON body content into JavaScript objects accessible on the Express `req`. Payload allows you to customize all of the `json` method's options. Common examples of customization use-cases are increasing the max allowed JSON body size which defaults to `2MB`.
-
-**Example payload.config.js for how to increase the max JSON size allowed to be sent to Payload endpoints:**
-
-```js
-{
-	express: {
-		json: {
-			limit: '4mb',
-		}
-	}
-}
-```
-
-You can find a list of all available options that are able to be passed to `express.json()` [here](https://expressjs.com/en/api.html).
-
-### Compression
-
-Payload uses the `compression` package to optimize transfer size for all of the routes it opens, and you can pass customization options through the Payload config.
-
-To customize compression options, pass an object to the Payload config's `express` property.
-
-**Example payload.config.js:**
-
-```js
-{
-  express: {
-    compression: {
-      // settings go here
-    }
-  }
-}
-```
-
-Typically, the default options for this package are suitable. However, for a list of all available customization options, [click here](http://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/compression.html).

docs/configuration/globals.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Global Configs
 label: Globals
 order: 30
 desc: Set up your Global config for your needs by defining fields, adding slugs and labels, establishing access control, tying in hooks and more.
-keywords: globals, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: globals, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Global configs are in many ways similar to [Collections](/docs/configuration/collections). The big difference is that Collections will potentially contain _many_ documents, while a Global is a "one-off". Globals are perfect for things like header nav, site-wide banner alerts, app-wide localized strings, and other "global" data that your site or app might rely on.
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ As with Collection configs, it's often best practice to write your Globals in se
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-#### Simple Global example
+### Simple Global example
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload'
 
 const Nav: GlobalConfig = {
   slug: 'nav',
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ const Nav: GlobalConfig = {
 export default Nav
 ```
 
-#### Global config example
+### Global config example
 
 You can find a few [example Global configs](https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo/tree/master/src/payload/globals) in the Public Demo source code on GitHub.
 
-### Admin options
+## Admin options
 
 You can customize the way that the Admin panel behaves on a Global-by-Global basis by defining the `admin` property on a Global's config.
 
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ You can customize the way that the Admin panel behaves on a Global-by-Global bas
 | `preview`     | Function to generate a preview URL within the Admin panel for this global that can point to your app. [More](#preview).           |
 | `livePreview` | Enable real-time editing for instant visual feedback of your front-end application. [More](/docs/live-preview/overview).          |
 | `hideAPIURL`  | Hides the "API URL" meta field while editing documents within this collection.                                                    |
+| `meta`        | Metadata overrides to apply to the [Admin panel](../admin/overview). Included properties are `description` and `openGraph`.       |
 
-### Preview
+## Preview
 
 Global `admin` options can accept a `preview` function that will be used to generate a link pointing to the frontend of your app to preview data.
 
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ If the function is specified, a Preview button will automatically appear in the
 **Example global with preview function:**
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export const MyGlobal: GlobalConfig = {
   slug: 'my-global',
@@ -112,24 +113,24 @@ export const MyGlobal: GlobalConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Access control
+## Access control
 
 As with Collections, you can specify extremely granular access control (what users can do with this Global) on a Global-by-Global basis. However, Globals only have `update` and `read` access control due to their nature of only having one document. To learn more, go to the [Access Control](/docs/access-control/overview) docs.
 
-### Hooks
+## Hooks
 
 Globals also fully support a smaller subset of Hooks. To learn more, go to the [Hooks](/docs/hooks/overview) documentation.
 
-### Field types
+## Field types
 
 Globals support all field types that Payload has to offer—including simple fields like text and checkboxes all the way to more complicated layout-building field groups like Blocks. [Click here](/docs/fields/overview) to learn more about field types.
 
-### TypeScript
+## TypeScript
 
 You can import global types as follows:
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload'
 
 // This is the type used for incoming global configs.
 // Only the bare minimum properties are marked as required.

docs/configuration/i18n.mdx

@@ -3,17 +3,73 @@ title: I18n
 label: I18n
 order: 40
 desc: Manage and customize internationalization support in your CMS editor experience
-keywords: internationalization, i18n, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: internationalization, i18n, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-Not only does Payload support managing localized content, it also has internationalization support so that admin users can work in their preferred language. Payload's i18n support is built on top of [i18next](https://www.i18next.com). It comes included by default and can be extended in your config.
+Not only does Payload support managing localized content, it also has internationalization support so that admin users can work in their preferred language. 
 
-While Payload's built-in features come translated, you may want to also translate parts of your project's configuration too. This is possible in places like collections and globals labels and groups, field labels, descriptions and input placeholder text. The admin UI will display all the correct translations you provide based on the user's language.
+By default, Payload comes with English installed as the language it uses. But, you can import and pass other languages to the Payload config as well. It's best to only support the languages that you need, because that way, the bundled JavaScript is kept to a minimum for your project.
+
+Here's an example for how to pass additional languages to Payload for use in translating:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+import { en } from 'payload/i18n/en'
+import { de } from 'payload/i18n/de'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  /**
+   * Payload accepts specific translations to use.
+   * This is completely optional and will default to English if not provided
+   */
+  i18n: {
+    // Payload will support either English or German,
+    // able to be specified in preferences on a user-by-user basis
+    supportedLanguages: { en, de },
+  },
+
+  // .. the rest of your config
+})
+```
+
+
+### Configuration Options
+
+In your Payload config, you can add translations and customize the settings in `i18n`. Payload will use your custom options and merge it with the default, allowing you to override the settings Payload provides.
+
+**Example Payload config extending i18n:**
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  //...
+  i18n: {
+    fallbackLng: 'en', // default
+    debug: false, // default
+    resources: {
+      en: {
+        custom: {
+          // namespace can be anything you want
+          key1: 'Translation with {{variable}}', // translation
+        },
+        // override existing translation keys
+        general: {
+          dashboard: 'Home',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  },
+  //...
+})
+```
+
+While Payload's built-in features come translated, you may want to also translate parts of your project's configuration too. This is possible in places like Collections and Globals labels and groups, field labels, descriptions and input placeholder text. The admin UI will display all the correct translations you provide based on the user's language.
 
 Here is an example of a simple collection supporting both English and Spanish editors:
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
+import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export const Articles: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'articles',
@@ -56,41 +112,38 @@ export const Articles: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Admin UI
+## Admin UI
 
-The Payload admin panel reads the language settings of a user's browser and display all text in that language, or will fall back to English if the user's language is not yet supported.
+The [Admin Panel](../admin/overview) reads the language settings of a user's browser and display all text in that language, or will fall back to English if the user's language is not yet supported.
 After a user logs in, they can change their language selection in the `/account` view.
 
 <Banner>
   <strong>Note:</strong>
   <br />
   If there is a language that Payload does not yet support, we accept code
-  [contributions](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+  [contributions](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md). You can also make and import your own translation files.
 </Banner>
 
-### Node Express
+## Node
 
-Payload's backend uses express middleware to set the language on incoming requests before they are handled. This allows backend validation to return error messages in the user's own language or system generated emails to be sent using the correct translation. You can make HTTP requests with the `accept-language` header and Payload will use that language.
+Payload's backend sets the language on incoming requests before they are handled. This allows backend validation to return error messages in the user's own language or system generated emails to be sent using the correct translation. You can make HTTP requests with the `accept-language` header and Payload will use that language.
 
-Anywhere in your Payload app that you have access to the `req` object, you can access i18next's extensive internationalization features assigned to `req.i18n`. To access text translations you can use `req.t('namespace:key')`.
+Anywhere in your Payload app that you have access to the `req` object, you can access payload's extensive internationalization features assigned to `req.i18n`. To access text translations you can use `req.t('namespace:key')`.
 
-Read the i18next [API documentation](https://www.i18next.com/overview/api) to learn more.
-
-### Configuration Options
+## Configuration Options
 
 In your Payload config, you can add translations and customize the settings in `i18n`. Payload will use your custom options and merge it with the default, allowing you to override the settings Payload provides.
 
 **Example Payload config extending i18n:**
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export default buildConfig({
   //...
   i18n: {
-    fallbackLng: 'en', // default
-    debug: false, // default
-    resources: {
+    fallbackLanguage: 'en', // default
+    translations: {
       en: {
         custom: {
           // namespace can be anything you want
@@ -107,4 +160,63 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-See the i18next [configuration options](https://www.i18next.com/overview/configuration-options) to learn more.
+## Types for custom translations
+
+In order to use custom translations in your project, you need to provide the types for the translations. Here is an example of how you can define the types for the custom translations in a custom react component:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+import type { NestedKeysStripped } from '@payloadcms/translations'
+import type React from 'react'
+
+import { useTranslation } from '@payloadcms/ui/providers/Translation'
+
+const customTranslations = {
+  en: {
+    general: {
+      test: 'Custom Translation',
+    },
+  },
+}
+
+type CustomTranslationObject = typeof customTranslations.en
+type CustomTranslationKeys = NestedKeysStripped<CustomTranslationObject>
+
+export const MyComponent: React.FC = () => {
+  const { i18n, t } = useTranslation<CustomTranslationObject, CustomTranslationKeys>() // These generics merge your custom translations with the default client translations
+
+  return t('general:test')
+}
+
+```
+
+Additionally, payload exposes the `t` function in various places, for example in labels. Here is how you would type those:
+
+```ts
+import type {
+  DefaultTranslationKeys,
+  NestedKeysStripped,
+  TFunction,
+} from '@payloadcms/translations'
+import type { Field } from 'payload/types'
+
+const customTranslations = {
+  en: {
+    general: {
+      test: 'Custom Translation',
+    },
+  },
+}
+
+type CustomTranslationObject = typeof customTranslations.en
+type CustomTranslationKeys = NestedKeysStripped<CustomTranslationObject>
+
+const field: Field = {
+  name: 'myField',
+  type: 'text',
+  label: (
+    { t }: { t: TFunction<CustomTranslationKeys | DefaultTranslationKeys> }, // The generic passed to TFunction does not automatically merge the custom translations with the default translations. We need to merge them ourselves here
+  ) => t('fields:addLabel'),
+}
+```
+

docs/configuration/localization.mdx

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ title: Localization
 label: Localization
 order: 50
 desc: Add and maintain as many locales as you need by adding Localization to your Payload config, set options for default locale, fallbacks, fields and more.
-keywords: localization, internationalization, i18n, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: localization, internationalization, i18n, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Payload features deep field-based localization support. Maintaining as many locales as you need is easy. All
 localization support is opt-in by default. To do so, follow the two steps below.
 
-### Enabling in the Payload config
+## Enabling in the Payload config
 
 Add the `localization` property to your Payload config to enable localization project-wide. You'll need to provide a
 list of all locales that you'd like to support as well as set a few other options.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ list of all locales that you'd like to support as well as set a few other option
 **Example Payload config set up for localization:**
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export default buildConfig({
   collections: [
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
 **Example Payload config set up for localization with full locales objects:**
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export default buildConfig({
   collections: [
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
 including [internationalization](/docs/configuration/i18n) support):**
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export default buildConfig({
   collections: [
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ right-to-left), and `fallbackLocale` property. The locale codes do not need to b
 to define how to represent your locales. Common patterns are to use two-letter ISO 639 language codes or four-letter
 language and country codes (ISO 3166‑1) such as `en-US`, `en-UK`, `es-MX`, etc.
 
-### Locale Properties:
+## Locale Object Properties
 
 | Option               | Description                                                                                                                    |
 | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Boolean enabling "fallback" locale functionality. If a document is requested in
 localized value corresponding to the requested locale, then if this property is enabled, the document will automatically
 fall back to the fallback locale value. If this property is not enabled, the value will not be populated.
 
-### Field by field localization
+## Field by field localization
 
 Payload localization works on a **field** level—not a document level. In addition to configuring the base Payload config
 to support localization, you need to specify each field that you would like to localize.
@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ and `block`s.
   strategy.
 </Banner>
 
-### Retrieving localized docs
+## Retrieving localized docs
 
 When retrieving documents, you can specify which locale you'd like to receive as well as which fallback locale should be
 used.
 
-##### REST API
+#### REST API
 
 REST API locale functionality relies on URL query parameters.
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ valid locale as provided to your base Payload config, or `'null'`, `'false'`, or
 fetch('https://localhost:3000/api/pages?locale=es&fallback-locale=none');
 ```
 
-##### GraphQL API
+#### GraphQL API
 
 In the GraphQL API, you can specify `locale` and `fallbackLocale` args to all relevant queries and mutations.
 
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ query {
   arguments in nested related document queries.
 </Banner>
 
-##### Local API
+#### Local API
 
 You can specify `locale` as well as `fallbackLocale` within the Local API as well as properties on the `options`
 argument. The `locale` property will accept any valid locale, and the `fallbackLocale` property will accept any valid

docs/configuration/overview.mdx

@@ -3,71 +3,66 @@ title: The Payload Config
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: The Payload config is central to everything that Payload does, from adding custom React components, to modifying collections, controlling localization and much more.
-keywords: overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Payload is a _config-based_, code-first CMS and application framework. The Payload config is central to everything that Payload does. It scaffolds the data that Payload stores as well as maintains custom React components, hook logic, custom validations, and much more.
 
 **Also, because the Payload source code is fully written in TypeScript, its configs are strongly typed—meaning that even if you aren't using TypeScript, your IDE (such as VSCode) may still provide helpful information like type-ahead suggestions while you write your config.**
 
-<Banner type="warning">
-  <strong>Important:</strong>
-  <br />
-  This file is included in the Payload admin bundle, so make sure you do not embed any sensitive
-  information.
-</Banner>
-
 ## Options
 
-| Option                | Description                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `admin` \*            | Base Payload admin configuration. Specify bundler\*, custom components, control metadata, set the Admin user collection, and [more](/docs/admin/overview#admin-options). Required. |
-| `editor` \*           | Rich Text Editor which will be used by richText fields. Required.                                                                                                                  |
-| `db` \*               | Database Adapter which will be used by Payload. Read more [here](/docs/database/overview). Required.                                                                               |
-| `serverURL`           | A string used to define the absolute URL of your app including the protocol, for example `https://example.com`. No paths allowed, only protocol, domain and (optionally) port      |
-| `collections`         | An array of all Collections that Payload will manage. To read more about how to define your collection configs, [click here](/docs/configuration/collections).                     |
-| `globals`             | An array of all Globals that Payload will manage. For more on Globals and their configs, [click here](/docs/configuration/globals).                                                |
-| `cors`                | Either a whitelist array of URLS to allow CORS requests from, or a wildcard string (`'*'`) to accept incoming requests from any domain.                                            |
-| `localization`        | Opt-in and control how Payload handles the translation of your content into multiple locales. [More](/docs/configuration/localization)                                             |
-| `graphQL`             | Manage GraphQL-specific functionality here. Define your own queries and mutations, manage query complexity limits, and [more](/docs/graphql/overview#graphql-options).             |
-| `cookiePrefix`        | A string that will be prefixed to all cookies that Payload sets.                                                                                                                   |
-| `csrf`                | A whitelist array of URLs to allow Payload cookies to be accepted from as a form of CSRF protection. [More](/docs/authentication/overview#csrf-protection)                         |
-| `defaultDepth`        | If a user does not specify `depth` while requesting a resource, this depth will be used. [More](/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth)                                              |
-| `maxDepth`            | The maximum allowed depth to be permitted application-wide. This setting helps prevent against malicious queries. Defaults to `10`.                                                |
-| `indexSortableFields` | Automatically index all sortable top-level fields in the database to improve sort performance and add database compatibility for Azure Cosmos and similar.                         |
-| `upload`              | Base Payload upload configuration. [More](/docs/upload/overview#payload-wide-upload-options).                                                                                      |
-| `routes`              | Control the routing structure that Payload binds itself to. Specify `admin`, `api`, `graphQL`, and `graphQLPlayground`.                                                            |
-| `email`               | Base email settings to allow Payload to generate email such as Forgot Password requests and other requirements. [More](/docs/email/overview#configuration)                         |
-| `express`             | Express-specific middleware options such as compression and JSON parsing. [More](/docs/configuration/express)                                                                      |
-| `debug`               | Enable to expose more detailed error information.                                                                                                                                  |
-| `telemetry`           | Disable Payload telemetry by passing `false`. [More](/docs/configuration/overview#telemetry)                                                                                       |
-| `rateLimit`           | Control IP-based rate limiting for all Payload resources. Used to prevent DDoS attacks and [more](/docs/production/preventing-abuse#rate-limiting-requests).                       |
-| `hooks`               | Tap into Payload-wide hooks. [More](/docs/hooks/overview)                                                                                                                          |
-| `plugins`             | An array of Payload plugins. [More](/docs/plugins/overview)                                                                                                                        |
-| `endpoints`           | An array of custom API endpoints added to the Payload router. [More](/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints)                                                                     |
-| `custom`              | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                                                                                          |
+| Option                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `admin`                | Base Payload admin configuration. Specify custom components, control metadata, set the Admin user collection, and [more](/docs/admin/overview#admin-options). |
+| `bin`                  | Register custom bin scripts with the `payload` bin function. |
+| `editor`               | Rich Text Editor which will be used by richText fields. |
+| `db` \*                | Database Adapter which will be used by Payload. Read more [here](/docs/database/overview). Required. |
+| `serverURL`            | A string used to define the absolute URL of your app including the protocol, for example `https://example.com`. No paths allowed, only protocol, domain and (optionally) port |
+| `collections`          | An array of all Collections that Payload will manage. To read more about how to define your collection configs, [click here](/docs/configuration/collections). |
+| `globals`              | An array of all Globals that Payload will manage. For more on Globals and their configs, [click here](/docs/configuration/globals). |
+| `cors`                 | Either a whitelist array of URLS to allow CORS requests from, or a wildcard string (`'*'`) to accept incoming requests from any domain. |
+| `localization`         | Opt-in and control how Payload handles the translation of your content into multiple locales. [More](/docs/configuration/localization) |
+| `graphQL`              | Manage GraphQL-specific functionality here. Define your own queries and mutations, manage query complexity limits, and [more](/docs/graphql/overview#graphql-options). |
+| `cookiePrefix`         | A string that will be prefixed to all cookies that Payload sets. |
+| `csrf`                 | A whitelist array of URLs to allow Payload cookies to be accepted from as a form of CSRF protection. [More](/docs/authentication/overview#csrf-protection) |
+| `defaultDepth`         | If a user does not specify `depth` while requesting a resource, this depth will be used. [More](/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth) |
+| `defaultMaxTextLength` | The maximum allowed string length to be permitted application-wide. Helps to prevent malicious public document creation. |
+| `maxDepth`             | The maximum allowed depth to be permitted application-wide. This setting helps prevent against malicious queries. Defaults to `10`. |
+| `indexSortableFields`  | Automatically index all sortable top-level fields in the database to improve sort performance and add database compatibility for Azure Cosmos and similar. |
+| `upload`               | Base Payload upload configuration. [More](/docs/upload/overview#payload-wide-upload-options). |
+| `routes`               | Control the routing structure that Payload binds itself to. Specify `admin`, `api`, `graphQL`, and `graphQLPlayground`. |
+| `email`                | Cofigure the email adapter for Payload to use. |
+| `debug`                | Enable to expose more detailed error information. |
+| `telemetry`            | Disable Payload telemetry by passing `false`. [More](/docs/configuration/overview#telemetry) |
+| `rateLimit`            | Control IP-based rate limiting for all Payload resources. Used to prevent DDoS attacks and [more](/docs/production/preventing-abuse#rate-limiting-requests). |
+| `hooks`                | Tap into Payload-wide hooks. [More](/docs/hooks/overview) |
+| `plugins`              | An array of Payload plugins. [More](/docs/plugins/overview) |
+| `endpoints`            | An array of custom API endpoints added to the Payload router. [More](/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints) |
+| `custom`               | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins) |
+| `i18n`                 | Internationalization configuration. Pass all i18n languages you'd like the admin UI to support. Defaults to English-only. [More](/docs/beta/configuration/i18n) |
+| `secret` \*            | A secure, unguessable string that Payload will use for any encryption workflows - for example, password salt / hashing. Required. |
+| `sharp`                | If you would like Payload to offer cropping, focal point selection, and automatic media resizing, install and pass the Sharp module to the config here. |
+| `typescript`           | Configure TypeScript settings here. [More](#typescript) |
+
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-#### Simple example
+### Simple example
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 import { mongooseAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-mongodb'
-import { postgresAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-postgres' // beta
+import { postgresAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-postgres'
 
-import { viteBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-vite'
-import { webpackBundler } from '@payloadcms/bundler-webpack'
-
-import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical' // beta
-import { slateEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-slate'
+import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
 
 export default buildConfig({
-  admin: {
-    bundler: webpackBundler(), // or viteBundler()
-  },
-  db: mongooseAdapter({}) // or postgresAdapter({}),
-  editor: lexicalEditor({}) // or slateEditor({})
+  secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET || '',
+  db: mongooseAdapter({
+    url: process.env.DATABASE_URI,
+  }), // or postgresAdapter({}),
+  editor: lexicalEditor({}),
   collections: [
     {
       slug: 'pages',
@@ -106,32 +101,31 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Full example config
+### Full example config
 
 You can see a full [example config](https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo/blob/master/src/payload/payload.config.ts) in the Public Demo source code on GitHub.
 
-### Using environment variables in your config
+## Using environment variables in your config
 
-We suggest using the `dotenv` package to handle environment variables alongside of Payload. All that's necessary to do is to require the package as high up in your application as possible (for example, at the top of your `server.js` file), and ensure that it can find an `.env` file that you create.
+By default, Next.js will load `.env` files based on your `NODE_ENV`. If you are using Payload outside of Next.js, we suggest using the `dotenv` package to handle environment variables from `.env` files. All that's necessary to do is to require the package as high up in your application as possible (for example, at the top of your `payload.config.ts` file), and ensure that it can find an `.env` file that you create.
 
-**Add this line to the top of your server:**
+**If necessary, you can add this code to the top of your Payload config:**
+
+```ts
+import dotenv from 'dotenv'
+dotenv.config()
 
-```
-require('dotenv').config()
 // ...
-// the rest of your `server.js` file goes here
+// the rest of your `payload.config.ts` file goes here
 ```
 
-Note that if you rely on any environment variables in your config itself, you should also call `dotenv()` at the top of your config itself as well. There's no harm in calling it in both your server and your config itself!
-
 **Here is an example project structure w/ `dotenv` and an `.env` file:**
 
 ```
 project-name
 ---- .env
 ---- package.json
----- payload.config.js
----- server.js
+---- payload.config.ts
 ```
 
 <Banner type="warning">
@@ -139,12 +133,12 @@ project-name
   <br />
   If you use an environment variable to configure any properties that are required for the Admin
   panel to function (ex. serverURL or any routes), you need to make sure that your Admin panel code
-  can access it. [Click here](/docs/admin/webpack#admin-environment-vars) for more info.
+  can access it. [Click here](/docs/admin/environment-vars) for more info.
 </Banner>
 
-### Customizing & Automating Config Location Detection
+## Customizing & Automating Config Location Detection
 
-Payload is designed to automatically locate your configuration file. By default, it will first look in the root of your current working directory for a file named `payload.config.js` or `payload.config.ts` if you're using TypeScript.
+For Payload command-line scripts, we need to be able to locate your Payload config. We'll check a variety of locations for the presence of `payload.config.ts` by default, including the root current working directory, your `tsconfig`'s `rootDir`, and your `tsconfig`'s `outDir`.
 
 In development mode, if the configuration file is not found at the root, Payload will attempt to read your `tsconfig.json`, and search in the directory specified in `compilerOptions.rootDir` (typically "src").
 
@@ -152,7 +146,7 @@ In production mode, Payload will first attempt to find the config file in the ou
 
 Please ensure your `tsconfig.json` is properly configured if you want Payload to accurately auto-detect your configuration file location. If `tsconfig.json` does not exist or doesn't specify `rootDir` or `outDir`, Payload will default to the current working directory.
 
-#### Overriding the Config Location
+### Overriding the Config Location
 
 In addition to the above automated detection, you can specify your own location for the Payload config file. This is done by using the environment variable `PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH`. The path you provide via this environment variable can either be absolute or relative to your current working directory. This can be useful in situations where your Payload config is not in a standard location, or you wish to switch between multiple configurations.
 
@@ -161,36 +155,75 @@ In addition to the above automated detection, you can specify your own location
 ```json
 {
   "scripts": {
-    "dev": "PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=path/to/custom-config.js node server.js"
+    "payload": "PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/custom-config.ts payload"
   }
 }
 ```
 
 When `PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH` is set, Payload will use this path to load the configuration, bypassing all automated detection.
 
-### Developing within the Config
+## TypeScript
 
-Payload comes with `isomorphic-fetch` installed which means that even in Node, you can use the `fetch` API just as you would within the browser. No need to import `axios` or similar, unless you want to!
+Payload exposes a variety of TypeScript settings that you can leverage on your Config's `typescript` property.
 
-### TypeScript
+**`autoGenerate`**
+
+By default, in Next.js development mode, Payload will auto-generate TypeScript interfaces for all collections and globals that your config defines. 
+
+You can opt out by setting `typescript.autoGenerate: false`.
+
+**`declare`**
+
+By default, Payload adds a `declare` block to your generated types, which makes sure that Payload uses your generated types for all Local API methods. This promotes strong typing across all of Payload's APIs. However, if you are using your Payload config in a monorepo sub-package, and you are using it in multiple applications, you might want to disable this automatic declaration and then manually add the `declare` block to a file that you control.
+
+In these cases, you can set `typescript.declare: false` to opt out.
+
+**`outputFile`**
+
+You can control the output path and filename of Payload's auto-generated types by defining the `typescript.outputFile` property to a full, absolute path.
+
+### Importing Payload config types
 
 You can import config types as follows:
 
 ```ts
-import { Config } from 'payload/config'
+import { Config } from 'payload'
 
 // This is the type used for an incoming Payload config.
 // Only the bare minimum properties are marked as required.
 ```
 
 ```ts
-import { SanitizedConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { SanitizedConfig } from 'payload'
 
 // This is the type used after an incoming Payload config is fully sanitized.
 // Generally, this is only used internally by Payload.
 ```
 
-### Telemetry
+### Server config vs. client config
+
+Payload's full config is only available on the server, but Payload dynamically reduces your config down to only what is safe to send to the client-side admin panel. All server-only properties are removed as well as all functions (hooks, validations, conditional logic, access control, etc). 
+
+Anywhere within the client-side admin UI, you can access your client-safe config which is typed as `ClientConfig`. The client config is JSON-serializable.
+
+Here's an example showing how to access your config on the client-side:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+import React from 'react'
+import { useConfig } from '@payloadcms/ui'
+
+const MyClientComponent: React.FC = () => {
+  // Get access to your config
+  const config = useConfig()
+
+  return (
+    // ..
+  )
+}
+```
+
+## Telemetry
 
 Payload collects **completely anonymous** telemetry data about general usage. This data is super important to us and helps us accurately understand how we're growing and what we can do to build the software into everything that it can possibly be. The telemetry that we collect also help us demonstrate our growth in an accurate manner, which helps us as we seek investment to build and scale our team. If we can accurately demonstrate our growth, we can more effectively continue to support Payload as free and open-source software. To opt out of telemetry, you can pass `telemetry: false` within your Payload config.
 

docs/database/migrations.mdx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Migrations
 label: Migrations
 order: 20
-keywords: database, migrations, ddl, sql, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, express
+keywords: database, migrations, ddl, sql, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, nextjs
 desc: Payload features first-party database migrations all done in TypeScript.
 ---
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Ensure you have an npm script called "payload" in your `package.json` file.
   because Payload should not be globally installed on your system.
 </Banner>
 
-### Migration file contents
+## Migration file contents
 
 Payload stores all created migrations in a folder that you can specify. By default, migrations are stored
 in `./src/migrations`.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export async function down({ payload, req }: MigrateDownArgs): Promise<void> {
 }
 ```
 
-### Migrations Directory
+## Migrations Directory
 
 Each DB adapter has an optional property `migrationDir` where you can override where you want your migrations to be
 stored/read. If this is not specified, Payload will check the default and possibly make a best effort to find your
@@ -124,3 +124,90 @@ Drops all entities from the database and re-runs all migrations from scratch.
 ```text
 npm run payload migrate:fresh
 ```
+
+## When to run migrations
+
+Depending on which database adapter you use, your migration workflow might differ subtly.
+
+In relational databases, migrations will be **required** for non-development database environments. But with MongoDB, you might only need to run migrations once in a while (or never even need them).
+
+#### MongoDB
+
+In MongoDB, you'll only ever really need to run migrations for times where you change your database shape, and you have lots of existing data that you'd like to transform from Shape A to Shape B.
+
+In this case, you can create a migration by running `pnpm payload migrate:create`, and then write the logic that you need to perform to migrate your documents to their new shape. You can then either run your migrations in CI before you build / deploy, or you can run them locally, against your production database, by using your production database connection string on your local computer and running the `pnpm payload migrate` command.
+
+#### Postgres
+
+In relational databases like Postgres, migrations are a bit more important, because each time you add a new field or a new collection, you'll need to update the shape of your database to match your Payload config (otherwise you'll see errors upon trying to read / write your data).
+
+That means that Postgres users of Payload should become familiar with the entire migration workflow from top to bottom.
+
+Here is an overview of a common workflow for working locally against a development database, creating migrations, and then running migrations against your production database before deploying.
+
+**1 - work locally using push mode**
+
+Payload uses Drizzle ORM's powerful `push` mode to automatically sync data changes to your database for you while in development mode. By default, this is enabled and is the suggested workflow to using Postgres and Payload while doing local development.
+
+You can disable this setting and solely use migrations to manage your local development database (pass `push: false` to your Postgres adapter), but if you do disable it, you may see frequent errors while running development mode. This is because Payload will have updated to your new data shape, but your local database will not have updated.
+
+For this reason, we suggest that you leave `push` as its default setting and treat your local dev database as a sandbox.
+
+For more information about push mode and prototyping in development, [click here](/docs/beta/database/postgres#prototyping-in-dev-mode).
+
+The typical workflow in Payload is to build out your Payload configs, install plugins, and make progress in development mode - allowing Drizzle to push your changes to your local database for you. Once you're finished, you can create a migration.
+
+But importantly, you do not need to run migrations against your development database, because Drizzle will have already pushed your changes to your database for you.
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  Warning: do not mix "push" and migrations with your local development database. If you use "push"
+  locally, and then try to migrate, Payload will throw a warning, telling you that these two methods
+  are not meant to be used interchangeably.
+</Banner>
+
+**2 - create a migration**
+
+Once you're done with working in your Payload config, you can create a migration. It's best practice to try and complete a specific task or fully build out a feature before you create a migration.
+
+But once you're ready, you can run `pnpm payload migrate:create`, which will perform the following steps for you:
+
+- We will look for any existing migrations, and automatically generate SQL changes necessary to convert your schema from its prior state to the new state of your Payload config
+- We will then create a new migration file in your `/migrations` folder that contains all the SQL necessary to be run
+
+We won't immediately run this migration for you, however. 
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  Tip: migrations created by Payload are relatively programmatic in nature, so there should not be any surprises, but before you check in the created migration it's a good idea to always double-check the contents of the migration files.
+</Banner>
+
+**3 - set up your build process to run migrations**
+
+Generally, you want to run migrations before you build Payload for production. This typically happens in your CI pipeline and can usually be configured on platforms like Payload Cloud, Vercel, or Netlify by specifying your build script.
+
+A common set of scripts in a `package.json`, set up to run migrations in CI, might look like this:
+
+```js
+  "scripts": {
+    // For running in dev mode
+    "dev": "next dev --turbo",
+
+    // To build your Next + Payload app for production
+    "build": "next build",
+
+    // A "tie-in" to Payload's CLI for convenience
+    // this helps you run `pnpm payload migrate:create` and similar
+    "payload": "cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--no-deprecation payload",
+
+    // This command is what you'd set your `build script` to.
+    // Notice how it runs `payload migrate` and then `pnpm build`?
+    // This will run all migrations for you before building, in your CI,
+    // against your production database
+    "ci": "payload migrate && pnpm build",
+  },
+```
+
+In the example above, we've specified a `ci` script which we can use as our "build script" in the platform that we are deploying to production with.
+
+This will require that your build pipeline can connect to your database, and it will simply run the `payload migrate` command prior to starting the build process. By calling `payload migrate`, Payload will automatically execute any migrations in your `/migrations` folder that have not yet been executed against your production database, in the order that they were created.
+
+If it fails, the deployment will be rejected. But now, with your build script set up to run your migrations, you will be all set! Next time you deploy, your CI will execute the required migrations for you, and your database will be caught up with the shape that your Payload config requires.

docs/database/mongodb.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: MongoDB
 label: MongoDB
 order: 40
 desc: Payload has supported MongoDB natively since we started. The flexible nature of MongoDB lends itself well to Payload's powerful fields.
-keywords: MongoDB, documentation, typescript, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: MongoDB, documentation, typescript, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 To use Payload with MongoDB, install the package `@payloadcms/db-mongodb`. It will come with everything you need to
@@ -28,17 +28,17 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-### Options
+## Options
 
-| Option               | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
-| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- |
-| `autoPluralization`  | Tell Mongoose to auto-pluralize any collection names if it encounters any singular words used as collection `slug`s.                                                                                                                                                                          |
-| `connectOptions`     | Customize MongoDB connection options. Payload will connect to your MongoDB database using default options which you can override and extend to include all the [options](https://mongoosejs.com/docs/connections.html#options) available to mongoose.                                         |
+| Option               | Description |
+| -------------------- | ----------- |
+| `autoPluralization`  | Tell Mongoose to auto-pluralize any collection names if it encounters any singular words used as collection `slug`s. |
+| `connectOptions`     | Customize MongoDB connection options. Payload will connect to your MongoDB database using default options which you can override and extend to include all the [options](https://mongoosejs.com/docs/connections.html#options) available to mongoose. |
 | `disableIndexHints`  | Set to true to disable hinting to MongoDB to use 'id' as index. This is currently done when counting documents for pagination, as it increases the speed of the count function used in that query. Disabling this optimization might fix some problems with AWS DocumentDB. Defaults to false |
-| `migrationDir`       | Customize the directory that migrations are stored.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| `transactionOptions` | An object with configuration properties used in [transactions](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/transactions/) or `false` which will disable the use of transactions.                                                                                                                 |     |
+| `migrationDir`       | Customize the directory that migrations are stored. |
+| `transactionOptions` | An object with configuration properties used in [transactions](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/transactions/) or `false` which will disable the use of transactions. |
 
-### Access to Mongoose models
+## Access to Mongoose models
 
 After Payload is initialized, this adapter exposes all of your Mongoose models and they are available for you to work
 with directly.

docs/database/overview.mdx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Database
 label: Overview
 order: 10
-keywords: database, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, express
+keywords: database, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, nextjs
 desc: With Payload, you bring your own database and own your data. You have full control.
 ---
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ To use a specific database adapter, you need to install it and configure it acco
 
 There are several factors to consider when choosing which database technology and hosting option is right for your project and workload. Payload can theoretically support any database, but it's up to you to decide which database to use.
 
-#### When to use MongoDB
+### When to use MongoDB
 
 If your project has a lot of dynamic fields, and you are comfortable with allowing Payload to enforce data integrity across your documents, MongoDB is a great choice. With it, your Payload documents are stored as _one_ document in your database—no matter if you have localization enabled, how many block or array fields you have, etc. This means that the shape of your data in your database will very closely reflect your field schema, and there is minimal complexity involved in storing or retrieving your data.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ You should prefer MongoDB if:
 - Most (or everything) in your project is localized
 - You leverage a lot of array fields, block fields, or `hasMany` select fields and similar
 
-#### When to use a relational DB
+### When to use a relational DB
 
 Many projects might call for more rigid database architecture where the shape of your data is strongly enforced at the database level. For example, if you know the shape of your data and it's relatively "flat", and you don't anticipate it to change often, your workload might suit relational databases like Postgres very well.
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ You should prefer a relational DB like Postgres if:
 - You require enforced data consistency at the database level
 - You have a lot of relationships between collections and require relationships to be enforced
 
-#### Differences in Payload features
+### Differences in Payload features
 
 It's important to note that almost everything Payload does is available in all of our officially supported database adapters, including localization, arrays, blocks, etc.
 

docs/database/postgres.mdx

@@ -3,16 +3,11 @@ title: Postgres
 label: Postgres
 order: 50
 desc: Payload supports Postgres through an officially supported Drizzle database adapter.
-keywords: Postgres, documentation, typescript, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: Postgres, documentation, typescript, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 To use Payload with Postgres, install the package `@payloadcms/db-postgres`. It leverages Drizzle ORM and `node-postgres` to interact with a Postgres database that you provide.
 
-<Banner>
-  The Postgres database adapter is currently in beta. If you would like to help us test this
-  package, we'd love to hear if you find any bugs or issues!
-</Banner>
-
 It automatically manages changes to your database for you in development mode, and exposes a full suite of migration controls for you to leverage in order to keep other database environments in sync with your schema. DDL transformations are automatically generated.
 
 To configure Payload to use Postgres, pass the `postgresAdapter` to your Payload config as follows:
@@ -36,7 +31,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-### Options
+## Options
 
 | Option                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 |-----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
@@ -51,7 +46,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
 
 
 
-### Access to Drizzle
+## Access to Drizzle
 
 After Payload is initialized, this adapter will expose the full power of Drizzle to you for use if you need it.
 
@@ -61,7 +56,7 @@ You can access Drizzle as follows:
 payload.db.drizzle
 ```
 
-### Tables, relations, and enums
+## Tables, relations, and enums
 
 In addition to exposing Drizzle directly, all of the tables, Drizzle relations, and enum configs are exposed for you via the `payload.db` property as well.
 
@@ -69,7 +64,7 @@ In addition to exposing Drizzle directly, all of the tables, Drizzle relations,
 - Enums - `payload.db.enums`
 - Relations - `payload.db.relations`
 
-### Prototyping in development mode
+## Prototyping in development mode
 
 Drizzle exposes two ways to work locally in development mode.
 
@@ -79,19 +74,8 @@ You will be warned if any changes that you make will entail data loss while in d
 
 Alternatively, you can disable `push` and rely solely on migrations to keep your local database in sync with your Payload config.
 
-### Migration workflows
+## Migration workflows
 
-Migrations are extremely powerful thanks to the seamless way that Payload and Drizzle work together. Let's take the following scenario:
+In Postgres, migrations are a fundamental aspect of working with Payload and you should become familiar with how they work.
 
-1. You are building your Payload config locally, with a local database used for testing.
-1. You have left the default setting of `push` enabled, so every time you change your Payload config (add or remove fields, collections, etc.), Drizzle will automatically push changes to your local DB.
-1. Once you're done with your changes, or have completed a feature, you can run `npm run payload migrate:create`.
-1. Payload and Drizzle will look for any existing migrations, and automatically generate all SQL changes necessary to convert your schema from its prior state into the state of your current Payload config, and store the resulting DDL in a newly created migration.
-1. Once you're ready to go to production, you will be able to run `npm run payload migrate` against your production database, which will apply any new migrations that have not yet run.
-1. Now your production database is in sync with your Payload config!
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  Warning: do not mix "push" and migrations with your local development database. If you use "push"
-  locally, and then try to migrate, Payload will throw a warning, telling you that these two methods
-  are not meant to be used interchangeably.
-</Banner>
+For more information about migrations, [click here](/docs/beta/database/migrations#when-to-run-migrations).

docs/database/transactions.mdx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Transactions
 label: Transactions
 order: 30
-keywords: database, transactions, sql, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, express
+keywords: database, transactions, sql, mongodb, postgres, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, typescript, node, react, nextjs
 desc: Database transactions are fully supported within Payload.
 ---
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const afterChange: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async ({ req }) => {
 }
 ```
 
-### Async Hooks with Transactions
+## Async Hooks with Transactions
 
 Since Payload hooks can be async and be written to not await the result, it is possible to have an incorrect success response returned on a request that is rolled back. If you have a hook where you do not `await` the result, then you should **not** pass the `req.transactionID`.
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ const afterChange: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async ({ req }) => {
 }
 ```
 
-### Direct Transaction Access
+## Direct Transaction Access
 
 When writing your own scripts or custom endpoints, you may wish to have direct control over transactions. This is useful for interacting with your database outside of Payload's local API.
 

docs/email/overview.mdx

@@ -2,166 +2,165 @@
 title: Email Functionality
 label: Overview
 order: 10
-desc: Payload uses NodeMailer to allow you to send emails smoothly from your app. Set up email functions such as password resets, order confirmations and more.
-keywords: email, overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+desc: Payload uses an adapter pattern to enable email functionality. Set up email functions such as password resets, order confirmations and more.
+keywords: email, overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-### Introduction
+## Introduction
 
-Payload comes ready to send your application's email. Whether you simply need built-in password reset
-email to work or you want customers to get an order confirmation email, you're almost there. Payload makes use of
-[NodeMailer](https://nodemailer.com) for email and won't get in your way for those already familiar.
+Payload has a few email adapters that can be imported to enable email functionality. The [@payloadcms/email-nodemailer](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@payloadcms/email-nodemailer) package will be the package most will want to install. This package provides an easy way to use [Nodemailer](https://nodemailer.com) for email and won't get in your way for those already familiar.
 
-For email to send from your Payload server, some configuration is required. The settings you provide will be set
-in the `email` property object of your payload init call. Payload will make use of the transport that you have configured for it for things like reset password or verifying new user accounts and email send methods are available to you as well on your payload instance.
+The email adapter should be passed into the `email` property of the Payload config. This will allow Payload to send emails for things like password resets, new user verification, and any other email sending needs you may have.
 
-### Configuration
+## Configuration
 
-**Three ways to set it up**
+### Default Configuration
 
-1. **Default**: When email is not needed, a mock email handler will be created and used when nothing is provided. This is ideal for development environments and can be changed later when ready to [go to production](/docs/production/deployment).
-1. **Recommended**: Set the `transportOptions` and Payload will do the set up for you.
-1. **Advanced**: The `transport` object can be assigned a nodemailer transport object set up in your server scripts and given for Payload to use.
+When email is not needed or desired, Payload will log a warning on startup notifying that email is not configured. A  warning message will also be logged on any attempt to send an email.
 
-The following options are configurable in the `email` property object as part of the options object when calling payload.init().
+### Email Adapter
 
-| Option                   | Description                                                                                                                                                                            |
-| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`fromName`** \*        | The name part of the From field that will be seen on the delivered email                                                                                                               |
-| **`fromAddress`** \*     | The email address part of the From field that will be used when delivering email                                                                                                       |
-| **`transport`**          | The NodeMailer transport object for when you want to do it yourself, not needed when transportOptions is set                                                                           |
-| **`transportOptions`**   | An object that configures the transporter that Payload will create. For all the available options see the [NodeMailer documentation](https://nodemailer.com) or see the examples below |
-| **`logMockCredentials`** | If set to true and no transport/transportOptions, ethereal credentials will be logged to console on startup                                                                            |
+An email adapter will require at least the following fields:
 
-_\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
+| Option                      | Description                                                                      |
+| --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`defaultFromName`** \*    | The name part of the From field that will be seen on the delivered email         |
+| **`defaultFromAddress`** \* | The email address part of the From field that will be used when delivering email |
 
-### Use SMTP
 
-Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) options can be passed in using the `transportOptions` object on the `email` options. See the [NodeMailer SMTP documentation](https://nodemailer.com/smtp/) for more information, including details on when `secure` should and should not be set to `true`.
+### Official Email Adapters
+
+| Name       | Package                                                                                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                     |
+| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Nodemailer | [@payloadcms/email-nodemailer](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@payloadcms/email-nodemailer) | Use any [Nodemailer transport](https://nodemailer.com/transports), including SMTP, Resend, SendGrid, and more. This was provided by default in Payload 2.x. This is the easiest migration path. |
+| Resend     | [@payloadcms/email-resend](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@payloadcms/email-resend)         | Resend email via their REST API. This is preferred for serverless platforms such as Vercel because it is much more lightweight than the nodemailer adapter.                                     |
+
+## Nodemailer Configuration
+
+| Option                 | Description                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`transport`**        | The Nodemailer transport object for when you want to do it yourself, not needed when transportOptions is set                                                                           |
+| **`transportOptions`** | An object that configures the transporter that Payload will create. For all the available options see the [Nodemailer documentation](https://nodemailer.com) or see the examples below |
+
+## Use SMTP
+
+Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) options can be passed in using the `transportOptions` object on the `email` options. See the [Nodemailer SMTP documentation](https://nodemailer.com/smtp/) for more information, including details on when `secure` should and should not be set to `true`.
 
 **Example email options using SMTP:**
 
 ```ts
-payload.init({
-  email: {
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { nodemailerAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-nodemailer'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  email: nodemailerAdapter({
+    defaultFromAddress: 'info@payloadcms.com',
+    defaultFromName: 'Payload',
+    // Nodemailer transportOptions
     transportOptions: {
       host: process.env.SMTP_HOST,
+      port: 587,
       auth: {
         user: process.env.SMTP_USER,
         pass: process.env.SMTP_PASS,
       },
-      port: Number(process.env.SMTP_HOST),
-      secure: Number(process.env.SMTP_PORT) === 465, // true for port 465, false (the default) for 587 and others
-      requireTLS: true,
     },
-    fromName: 'hello',
-    fromAddress: 'hello@example.com',
-  },
-  // ...
+  }),
 })
 ```
 
-<Banner type="warning">
-  It is best practice to avoid saving credentials or API keys directly in your code, use
-  [environment variables](/docs/configuration/overview#using-environment-variables-in-your-config).
-</Banner>
-
-### Use an email service
-
-Many third party mail providers are available and offer benefits beyond basic SMTP. As an example, your payload init could look like this if you wanted to use SendGrid.com, though the same approach would work for any other [NodeMailer transports](https://nodemailer.com/transports/) shown here or provided by another third party.
+**Example email options using nodemailer.createTransport:**
 
 ```ts
-import payload from 'payload'
-import nodemailerSendgrid from 'nodemailer-sendgrid'
-
-const sendGridAPIKey = process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY
-
-payload.init({
-  ...(sendGridAPIKey
-    ? {
-        email: {
-          transportOptions: nodemailerSendgrid({
-            apiKey: sendGridAPIKey,
-          }),
-          fromName: 'Admin',
-          fromAddress: 'admin@example.com',
-        },
-      }
-    : {}),
-})
-```
-
-### Use a custom NodeMailer transport
-
-To take full control of the mail transport you may wish to use `nodemailer.createTransport()` on your server and provide it to Payload init.
-
-```ts
-import payload from 'payload'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { nodemailerAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-nodemailer'
 import nodemailer from 'nodemailer'
 
-const payload = require('payload')
-const nodemailer = require('nodemailer')
-
-const transport = await nodemailer.createTransport({
-  host: process.env.SMTP_HOST,
-  port: 587,
-  auth: {
-    user: process.env.SMTP_USER,
-    pass: process.env.SMTP_PASS,
-  },
-})
-
-payload.init({
-  email: {
-    fromName: 'Admin',
-    fromAddress: 'admin@example.com',
-    transport,
-  },
-  // ...
+export default buildConfig({
+  email: nodemailerAdapter({
+    defaultFromAddress: 'info@payloadcms.com',
+    defaultFromName: 'Payload',
+    // Any Nodemailer transport can be used
+    transport: nodemailer.createTransport({
+      host: process.env.SMTP_HOST,
+      port: 587,
+      auth: {
+        user: process.env.SMTP_USER,
+        pass: process.env.SMTP_PASS,
+      },
+    }),
+  }),
 })
 ```
 
-### Sending Mail
+**Custom Transport:**
 
-With a working transport you can call it anywhere you have access to payload by calling `payload.sendEmail(message)`. The `message` will contain the `to`, `subject` and `email` or `text` for the email being sent. To see all available message configuration options see [NodeMailer](https://nodemailer.com/message).
+You also have the ability to bring your own nodemailer transport. This is an example of using the SendGrid nodemailer transport.
 
-### Mock transport
-
-By default, Payload uses a mock implementation that only sends mail to the [ethereal](https://ethereal.email) capture service that will never reach a user's inbox. While in development you may wish to make use of the captured messages which is why the payload output during server output helpfully logs this out on the server console.
-
-To see ethereal credentials, add `logMockCredentials: true` to the email options. This will cause them to be logged to console on startup.
 
 ```ts
-payload.init({
-  email: {
-    fromName: 'Admin',
-    fromAddress: 'admin@example.com',
-    logMockCredentials: true, // Optional
-  },
-  // ...
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { nodemailerAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-nodemailer'
+import nodemailerSendgrid from 'nodemailer-sendgrid'
+
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  email: nodemailerAdapter({
+    defaultFromAddress: 'info@payloadcms.com',
+    defaultFromName: 'Payload',
+    transportOptions: nodemailerSendgrid({
+      apiKey: process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY,
+    }),
+  }),
 })
 ```
 
-**Console output when starting payload with a mock email instance and logMockCredentials: true**
+During development, if you pass nothing to `nodemailerAdapter`, it will use the [ethereal.email](https://ethereal.email) service.
 
-```
-[06:37:21] INFO  (payload): Starting Payload...
-[06:37:22] INFO  (payload): Payload Demo Initialized
-[06:37:22] INFO  (payload): listening on 3000...
-[06:37:22] INFO  (payload): Connected to MongoDB server successfully!
-[06:37:23] INFO  (payload): E-mail configured with mock configuration
-[06:37:23] INFO  (payload): Log into mock email provider at https://ethereal.email
-[06:37:23] INFO  (payload): Mock email account username: hhav5jw7doo4euev@ethereal.email
-[06:37:23] INFO  (payload): Mock email account password: VNdGcvDZeyEhtuPBqf
+This will log the ethereal.email details to console on startup.
+
+```ts
+import { nodemailerAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-nodemailer'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  email: nodemailerAdapter(),
+})
 ```
 
-The mock email handler is used when payload is started with neither `transport` or `transportOptions` to know how to deliver email.
+## Resend Configuration
 
-<Banner type="warning">
-  The randomly generated email account username and password will be different each time the Payload
-  server starts.
-</Banner>
+The Resend adapter requires an API key to be passed in the options. This can be found in the Resend dashboard. This is the preferred package if you are deploying on Vercel because this is much more lightweight than the Nodemailer adapter.
 
-### Using multiple mail providers
+| Option | Description                         |
+| ------ | ----------------------------------- |
+| apiKey | The API key for the Resend service. |
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { resendAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-resend'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  email: resendAdapter({
+    defaultFromAddress: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
+    defaultFromName: 'Payload CMS',
+    apiKey: process.env.RESEND_API_KEY || '',
+  }),
+})
+```
+
+## Sending Mail
+
+With a working transport you can call it anywhere you have access to payload by calling `payload.sendEmail(message)`. The `message` will contain the `to`, `subject` and `html` or `text` for the email being sent. Other options are also available and can be seen in the sendEmail args. Support for these will depend on the adapter being used.
+
+```ts
+// Example of sending an email
+const email = await payload.sendEmail({
+  to: 'test@example.com',
+  subject: 'This is a test email',
+  text: 'This is my message body',
+})
+```
+
+## Using multiple mail providers
 
 Payload supports the use of a single transporter of email, but there is nothing stopping you from having more. Consider a use case where sending bulk email is handled differently than transactional email and could be done using a [hook](/docs/hooks/overview).

docs/examples/overview.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+---
+title: Examples
+label: Overview
+order: 10
+desc:
+keywords: example, examples, starter, boilerplate, template, templates
+---
+
+Payload provides a vast array of examples to help you get started with your project no matter what you are working on. These examples are designed to be easy to get up and running, and to be easy to understand. They showcase nothing more than the specific features being demonstrated so you can easily decipher what is going on.
+
+Examples are changing every day, so be sure to check back often to see what new examples have been added. If you have a specific example you would like to see, please feel free to start a new [Discussion](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions) or open a new [PR](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pulls) to add it yourself.
+
+- [Auth](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/auth)
+- [Custom Server](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/custom-server)
+- [Draft Preview](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/draft-preview)
+- [Email](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/email)
+- [Form Builder](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/form-builder)
+- [Hierarchy](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/hierarchy)
+- [Live Preview](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview)
+- [Multi-tenant](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/multi-tenant)
+- [Nested Docs](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/nested-docs)
+- [Redirects](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/redirects)
+- [Tailwind / Shadcn-ui](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/tailwind-shadcn-ui)
+- [Tests](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/testing)
+- [Virtual Fields](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/virtual-fields)
+- [White-label Admin UI](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/whitelabel)
+
+When necessary, some examples include a front-end. Examples that require a front-end share this folder structure:
+
+```plaintext
+example/
+├── payload/
+├── next-app/
+├── next-pages/
+├── react-router/
+├── vue/
+├── svelte/
+```
+
+Where `payload` is your Payload project, and the other directories are dedicated to their respective front-end framework. We are adding new examples every day, so if your framework of choice is not yet supported in any particular example, please feel free to start a new [Discussion](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions) or open a new [PR](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pulls) to add it yourself.

docs/fields/array.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Array Field
 label: Array
 order: 20
 desc: Array fields are intended for sets of repeating fields, that you define. Learn how to use array fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: array, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: array, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ keywords: array, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
 - Navigational structures where editors can specify nav items containing pages ([relationship field](/docs/fields/relationship)), an "open in new tab" [checkbox field](/docs/fields/checkbox)
 - Event agenda "timeslots" where you need to specify start & end time ([date field](/docs/fields/date)), label ([text field](/docs/fields/text)), and Learn More page [relationship](/docs/fields/relationship)
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ keywords: array, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can adjust the following properties:
 
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | **`initCollapsed`**       | Set the initial collapsed state                                                                                      |
 | **`components.RowLabel`** | Function or React component to be rendered as the label on the array row. Receives `({ data, index, path })` as args |
+| **`isSortable`**          | Disable order sorting by setting this value to `false`                                                               |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/blocks.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Blocks Field
 label: Blocks
 order: 30
 desc: The Blocks field type is a great layout build and can be used to construct any flexible content model. Learn how to use Block fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: blocks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: blocks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ keywords: blocks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manageme
 - A form builder tool where available block configs might be `Text`, `Select`, or `Checkbox`.
 - Virtual event agenda "timeslots" where a timeslot could either be a `Break`, a `Presentation`, or a `BreakoutSession`.
 
-### Field config
+## Field config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -49,15 +49,16 @@ keywords: blocks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manageme
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can adjust the following properties:
 
-| Option              | Description                     |
-| ------------------- | ------------------------------- |
-| **`initCollapsed`** | Set the initial collapsed state |
+| Option              | Description                        |
+| ------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
+| **`initCollapsed`**    | Set the initial collapsed state |
+| **`isSortable`**       | Disable order sorting by setting this value to `false` |
 
-### Block configs
+## Block configs
 
 Blocks are defined as separate configs of their own.
 
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ Blocks are defined as separate configs of their own.
 | **`dbName`**               | Custom table name for this block type when using SQL database adapter ([Postgres](/docs/database/postgres)). Auto-generated from slug if not defined.
 | **`custom`**               | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                                                                                           |
 
-#### Auto-generated data per block
+### Auto-generated data per block
 
 In addition to the field data that you define on each block, Payload will store two additional properties on each block:
 
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ The `blockType` is saved as the slug of the block that has been selected.
 
 The Admin panel provides each block with a `blockName` field which optionally allows editors to label their blocks for better editability and readability.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.js`
 
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### TypeScript
+## TypeScript
 
 As you build your own Block configs, you might want to store them in separate files but retain typing accordingly. To do so, you can import and use Payload's `Block` type:
 

docs/fields/checkbox.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Checkbox Field
 label: Checkbox
 order: 40
 desc: Checkbox field types allow the developer to save a boolean value in the database. Learn how to use Checkbox fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: checkbox, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: checkbox, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>The Checkbox field type saves a boolean in the database.</Banner>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ keywords: checkbox, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manage
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of Checkbox field with Text field below"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ keywords: checkbox, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manage
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/code.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ label: Code
 order: 50
 desc: The Code field type will store any string in the Database. Learn how to use Code fields, see examples and options.
 
-keywords: code, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: code, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ keywords: code, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 
 This field uses the `monaco-react` editor syntax highlighting.
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This field uses the `monaco-react` editor syntax highlighting.
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can adjust the following properties:
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 | **`language`**      | This property can be set to any language listed [here](https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/tree/main/src/basic-languages).                                               |
 | **`editorOptions`** | Options that can be passed to the monaco editor, [view the full list](https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/typedoc/interfaces/editor.IDiffEditorConstructionOptions.html). |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts
 

docs/fields/collapsible.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Collapsible Field
 label: Collapsible
 order: 60
 desc: With the Collapsible field, you can place fields within a collapsible layout component that can be collapsed / expanded.
-keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Collapsible field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option          | Description                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can adjust the following properties:
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 | ------------------- | ------------------------------- |
 | **`initCollapsed`** | Set the initial collapsed state |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/date.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Date Field
 label: Date
 order: 70
 desc: The Date field type stores a Date in the database. Learn how to use and customize the Date field, see examples and options.
-keywords: date, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: date, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ keywords: date, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 
 This field uses [`react-datepicker`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-datepicker) for the Admin panel component.
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ This field uses [`react-datepicker`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-datepic
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can customize the following fields that will adjust how the component displays in the admin panel via the `date` property.
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 
 _\* This property is passed directly to [react-datepicker](https://github.com/Hacker0x01/react-datepicker/blob/master/docs/datepicker.md). ._
 
-#### Display Format and Picker Appearance
+### Display Format and Picker Appearance
 
 These properties only affect how the date is displayed in the UI. The full date is always stored in the format `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ` (e.g. `1999-01-01T8:00:00.000+05:00`).
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ These properties only affect how the date is displayed in the UI. The full date
 
 When only `pickerAppearance` is set, an equivalent format will be rendered in the date field cell. To overwrite this format, set `displayFormat`.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/email.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Email Field
 label: Email
 order: 80
 desc: The Email field enforces that the value provided is a valid email address. Learn how to use Email fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: email, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: email, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>The Email field enforces that the value provided is a valid email address.</Banner>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ keywords: email, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of an Email field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ keywords: email, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), this field type allows for the following `admin` properties:
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Set this property to define a placeholder string for the field.
 
 Set this property to a string that will be used for browser autocomplete.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/group.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Group Field
 label: Group
 order: 90
 desc: The Group field allows other fields to be nested under a common property. Learn how to use Group fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: group, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: group, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: group, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Group field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ keywords: group, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Group allows for the following admin property:
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 
 Set this property to `true` to hide this field's gutter within the admin panel. The field gutter is rendered as a vertical line and padding, but often if this field is nested within a Group, Block, or Array, you may want to hide the gutter.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/json.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ label: JSON
 order: 50
 desc: The JSON field type will store any string in the Database. Learn how to use JSON fields, see examples and options.
 
-keywords: json, jsonSchema, schema, validation, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: json, jsonSchema, schema, validation, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ keywords: json, jsonSchema, schema, validation, fields, config, configuration, d
 
 This field uses the `monaco-react` editor syntax highlighting.
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ This field uses the `monaco-react` editor syntax highlighting.
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin Config
+## Admin Config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), you can adjust the following properties:
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | **`editorOptions`** | Options that can be passed to the monaco editor, [view the full list](https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/typedoc/variables/editor.EditorOptions.html). |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
   ],
 }
 ```
-### JSON Schema Validation
+## JSON Schema Validation
 
 Payload JSON fields fully support the [JSON schema](https://json-schema.org/) standard. By providing a schema in your field config, the editor will be guided in the admin UI, getting typeahead for properties and their formats automatically. When the document is saved, the default validation will prevent saving any invalid data in the field according to the schema in your config.
 
 If you only provide a URL to a schema, Payload will fetch the desired schema if it is publicly available. If not, it is recommended to add the schema directly to your config or import it from another file so that it can be implemented consistently in your project.
 
 
-#### Local JSON Schema
+### Local JSON Schema
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
 // Attempting to create {"foo": "not-bar"} will throw an error
 ```
 
-#### Remote JSON Schema
+### Remote JSON Schema
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/number.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Number Field
 label: Number
 order: 100
 desc: Number fields store and validate numeric data. Learn how to use and format Number fields, see examples and Number field options.
-keywords: number, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: number, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: number, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manageme
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Number field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
 |--------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ keywords: number, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manageme
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), this field type allows for the following `admin` properties:
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Set this property to define a placeholder string for the field.
 
 Set this property to a string that will be used for browser autocomplete.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/overview.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Fields Overview
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: Fields are the building blocks of Payload, find out how to add or remove a field, change field type, add hooks, define access control and validation.
-keywords: overview, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: overview, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner type="info">
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export const Page: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Field types
+## Field types
 
 - [Array](/docs/fields/array) - for repeating content, supports nested fields
 - [Blocks](/docs/fields/blocks) - block-based fields, allowing powerful layout creation
@@ -60,19 +60,19 @@ export const Page: CollectionConfig = {
 - [Upload](/docs/fields/upload) - allows local file and image upload
 - [UI](/docs/fields/ui) - inject your own custom components and do whatever you need
 
-### Field-level hooks
+## Field-level hooks
 
 One of the most powerful parts about Payload is its ability for you to define field-level hooks that can control the logic of your fields to a fine-grained level. for more information about how to define field hooks, [click here](/docs/hooks/overview#field-hooks).
 
-### Field-level access control
+## Field-level access control
 
 In addition to being able to define access control on a document-level, you can define extremely granular permissions on a field by field level. For more information about field-level access control, [click here](/docs/access-control/overview#fields).
 
-### Field names
+## Field names
 
 Some fields use their `name` property as a unique identifier to store and retrieve from the database. `__v`, `salt`, and `hash` are all reserved field names which are sanitized from Payload's config and cannot be used.
 
-### Validation
+## Validation
 
 Field validation is enforced automatically based on the field type and other properties such as `required` or `min` and `max` value constraints on certain field types. This default behavior can be replaced by providing your own validate function for any field. It will be used on both the frontend and the backend, so it should not rely on any Node-specific packages. The validation function can be either synchronous or asynchronous and expects to return either `true` or a string error message to display in both API responses and within the Admin panel.
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ There are two arguments available to custom validation functions.
 | `user`        | An object containing the currently authenticated user                                                                    |
 | `payload`     | If the `validate` function is being executed on the server, Payload will be exposed for easily running local operations. |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 ```ts
 import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ const field: Field = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Customizable ID
+## Customizable ID
 
 Collections ID fields are generated automatically by default. An explicit `id` field can be declared in the `fields` array to override this behavior.
 Users are then required to provide a custom ID value when creating a record through the Admin UI or API.
@@ -159,29 +159,31 @@ Example:
 }
 ```
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to each field's base configuration, you can define specific traits and properties for fields that only have effect on how they are rendered in the Admin panel. The following properties are available for all fields within the `admin` property:
 
-| Option            | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `condition`       | You can programmatically show / hide fields based on what other fields are doing. [Click here](#conditional-logic) for more info.                                                                                                |
-| `components`      | All field components can be completely and easily swapped out for custom components that you define. [Click here](#custom-components) for more info.                                                                             |
-| `description`     | Helper text to display with the field to provide more information for the editor user. [Click here](#description) for more info.                                                                                                 |
-| `position`        | Specify if the field should be rendered in the sidebar by defining `position: 'sidebar'`.                                                                                                                                        |
-| `width`           | Restrict the width of a field. you can pass any string-based value here, be it pixels, percentages, etc. This property is especially useful when fields are nested within a `Row` type where they can be organized horizontally. |
-| `style`           | Attach raw CSS style properties to the root DOM element of a field.                                                                                                                                                              |
-| `className`       | Attach a CSS class name to the root DOM element of a field.                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| `readOnly`        | Setting a field to `readOnly` has no effect on the API whatsoever but disables the admin component's editability to prevent editors from modifying the field's value.                                                            |
-| `disabled`        | If a field is `disabled`, it is completely omitted from the Admin panel.                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `disableBulkEdit` | Set `disableBulkEdit` to `true` to prevent fields from appearing in the select options when making edits for multiple documents.                                                                                                 |
-| `hidden`          | Setting a field's `hidden` property on its `admin` config will transform it into a `hidden` input type. Its value will still submit with the Admin panel's requests, but the field itself will not be visible to editors.        |
+| Option              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `condition`         | You can programmatically show / hide fields based on what other fields are doing. [Click here](#conditional-logic) for more info.                                                                                                |
+| `components`        | All field components can be completely and easily swapped out for custom components that you define. [Click here](#custom-components) for more info.                                                                             |
+| `description`       | Helper text to display with the field to provide more information for the editor user. [Click here](#description) for more info.                                                                                                 |
+| `position`          | Specify if the field should be rendered in the sidebar by defining `position: 'sidebar'`.                                                                                                                                        |
+| `width`             | Restrict the width of a field. you can pass any string-based value here, be it pixels, percentages, etc. This property is especially useful when fields are nested within a `Row` type where they can be organized horizontally. |
+| `style`             | Attach raw CSS style properties to the root DOM element of a field.                                                                                                                                                              |
+| `className`         | Attach a CSS class name to the root DOM element of a field.                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| `readOnly`          | Setting a field to `readOnly` has no effect on the API whatsoever but disables the admin component's editability to prevent editors from modifying the field's value.                                                            |
+| `disabled`          | If a field is `disabled`, it is completely omitted from the Admin panel.                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `disableBulkEdit`   | Set `disableBulkEdit` to `true` to prevent fields from appearing in the select options when making edits for multiple documents.                                                                                                 |
+| `disableListColumn` | Set `disableListColumn` to `true` to prevent fields from appearing in the list view column selector.                                                                                                                             |
+| `disableListFilter` | Set `disableListFilter` to `true` to prevent fields from appearing in the list view filter options.                                                                                                                              |
+| `hidden`            | Setting a field's `hidden` property on its `admin` config will transform it into a `hidden` input type. Its value will still submit with the Admin panel's requests, but the field itself will not be visible to editors.        |
 
-### Custom components
+## Custom components
 
 All Payload fields support the ability to swap in your own React components with ease. For more information, including examples, [click here](/docs/admin/components#fields).
 
-### Conditional logic
+## Conditional logic
 
 You can show and hide fields based on what other fields are doing by utilizing conditional logic on a field by field basis. The `condition` property on a field's admin config accepts a function which takes three arguments:
 
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ The `condition` function should return a boolean that will control if the field
 }
 ```
 
-### Default values
+## Default values
 
 Fields can be prefilled with starting values using the `defaultValue` property. This is used in the admin UI and also on the backend as API requests will be populated with missing or undefined field values. You can assign the defaultValue directly in the field configuration or supply a function for dynamic behavior. Values assigned during a create request on the server are added before validation occurs.
 
@@ -250,7 +252,7 @@ const field = {
   You can use async defaultValue functions to fill fields with data from API requests.
 </Banner>
 
-### Description
+## Description
 
 A description can be configured in three ways.
 
@@ -312,7 +314,7 @@ This example will display the number of characters allowed as the user types.
 
 This component will count the number of characters entered, as well as display the path of the field.
 
-### TypeScript
+## TypeScript
 
 You can import the internal Payload `Field` type as well as other common field types as follows:
 

docs/fields/point.mdx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ label: Point
 order: 110
 desc: The Point field type stores coordinates in the database. Learn how to use Point field for geolocation and geometry.
 
-keywords: point, geolocation, geospatial, geojson, 2dsphere, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: point, geolocation, geospatial, geojson, 2dsphere, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ keywords: point, geolocation, geospatial, geojson, 2dsphere, config, configurati
 
 The data structure in the database matches the GeoJSON structure to represent point. The Payload APIs simplifies the object data to only the [longitude, latitude] location.
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
   <strong>Note:</strong> The Point field type is currently only supported in MongoDB.
 </Banner>
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 
@@ -69,6 +69,6 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Querying
+## Querying
 
 In order to do query based on the distance to another point, you can use the `near` operator. When querying using the near operator, the returned documents will be sorted by nearest first.

docs/fields/radio.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Radio Group Field
 label: Radio Group
 order: 120
 desc: The Radio field type allows for the selection of one value from a predefined set of possible values. Learn how to use Radio fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: radio, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: radio, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: radio, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Managemen
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Radio field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
   being used as a GraphQL enum.
 </Banner>
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Radio Group field type allows for the specification of the following `admin` properties:
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-conf
 
 The `layout` property allows for the radio group to be styled as a horizonally or vertically distributed list. The default value is `horizontal`.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/relationship.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Relationship Field
 label: Relationship
 order: 130
 desc: The Relationship field provides the ability to relate documents together. Learn how to use Relationship fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: relationship, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: relationship, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -24,30 +24,30 @@ keywords: relationship, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Ma
 - To allow for an `Order` to feature a `placedBy` relationship to either an `Organization` or `User` collection
 - To assign `Category` documents to `Post` documents
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
-| Option              | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`name`** \*       | To be used as the property name when stored and retrieved from the database. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-names)                                                      |
-| **`relationTo`** \* | Provide one or many collection `slug`s to be able to assign relationships to.                                                                                               |
-| **`filterOptions`** | A query to filter which options appear in the UI and validate against. [More](#filtering-relationship-options).                                                             |
-| **`hasMany`**       | Boolean when, if set to `true`, allows this field to have many relations instead of only one.                                                                               |
-| **`minRows`**       | A number for the fewest allowed items during validation when a value is present. Used with `hasMany`.                                                                       |
-| **`maxRows`**       | A number for the most allowed items during validation when a value is present. Used with `hasMany`.                                                                         |
-| **`maxDepth`**      | Sets a number limit on iterations of related documents to populate when queried. [Depth](/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth)                                              |
-| **`label`**         | Text used as a field label in the Admin panel or an object with keys for each language.                                                                                     |
-| **`unique`**        | Enforce that each entry in the Collection has a unique value for this field.                                                                                                |
-| **`validate`**      | Provide a custom validation function that will be executed on both the Admin panel and the backend. [More](/docs/fields/overview#validation)                                |
-| **`index`**         | Build an [index](/docs/database/overview) for this field to produce faster queries. Set this field to `true` if your users will perform queries on this field's data often. |
-| **`saveToJWT`**     | If this field is top-level and nested in a config supporting [Authentication](/docs/authentication/config), include its data in the user JWT.                               |
-| **`hooks`**         | Provide field-based hooks to control logic for this field. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-level-hooks)                                                                  |
-| **`access`**        | Provide field-based access control to denote what users can see and do with this field's data. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-level-access-control)                     |
-| **`hidden`**        | Restrict this field's visibility from all APIs entirely. Will still be saved to the database, but will not appear in any API or the Admin panel.                            |
-| **`defaultValue`**  | Provide data to be used for this field's default value. [More](/docs/fields/overview#default-values)                                                                        |
-| **`localized`**     | Enable localization for this field. Requires [localization to be enabled](/docs/configuration/localization) in the Base config.                                             |
-| **`required`**      | Require this field to have a value.                                                                                                                                         |
-| **`admin`**         | Admin-specific configuration. See the [default field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config) for more details.                                                    |
-| **`custom`**        | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                                                                                   |
+| Option              | Description                                                                                                                                                                    |
+|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`name`** \*       | To be used as the property name when stored and retrieved from the database. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-names)                                                         |
+| **`relationTo`** \* | Provide one or many collection `slug`s to be able to assign relationships to.                                                                                                  |
+| **`filterOptions`** | A query to filter which options appear in the UI and validate against. [More](#filtering-relationship-options).                                                                |
+| **`hasMany`**       | Boolean when, if set to `true`, allows this field to have many relations instead of only one.                                                                                  |
+| **`minRows`**       | A number for the fewest allowed items during validation when a value is present. Used with `hasMany`.                                                                          |
+| **`maxRows`**       | A number for the most allowed items during validation when a value is present. Used with `hasMany`.                                                                            |
+| **`maxDepth`**      | Sets a maximum population depth for this field, regardless of the remaining depth when this field is reached. [Max Depth](/docs/getting-started/concepts#field-level-max-depth) |
+| **`label`**         | Text used as a field label in the Admin panel or an object with keys for each language.                                                                                        |
+| **`unique`**        | Enforce that each entry in the Collection has a unique value for this field.                                                                                                   |
+| **`validate`**      | Provide a custom validation function that will be executed on both the Admin panel and the backend. [More](/docs/fields/overview#validation)                                   |
+| **`index`**         | Build an [index](/docs/database/overview) for this field to produce faster queries. Set this field to `true` if your users will perform queries on this field's data often.    |
+| **`saveToJWT`**     | If this field is top-level and nested in a config supporting [Authentication](/docs/authentication/config), include its data in the user JWT.                                  |
+| **`hooks`**         | Provide field-based hooks to control logic for this field. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-level-hooks)                                                                     |
+| **`access`**        | Provide field-based access control to denote what users can see and do with this field's data. [More](/docs/fields/overview#field-level-access-control)                        |
+| **`hidden`**        | Restrict this field's visibility from all APIs entirely. Will still be saved to the database, but will not appear in any API or the Admin panel.                               |
+| **`defaultValue`**  | Provide data to be used for this field's default value. [More](/docs/fields/overview#default-values)                                                                           |
+| **`localized`**     | Enable localization for this field. Requires [localization to be enabled](/docs/configuration/localization) in the Base config.                                                |
+| **`required`**      | Require this field to have a value.                                                                                                                                            |
+| **`admin`**         | Admin-specific configuration. See the [default field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config) for more details.                                                       |
+| **`custom`**        | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                                                                                      |
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
   related documents that are returned by the API.
 </Banner>
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Relationship field type also
 allows for the following admin-specific properties:
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ In this configuration:
 
 Note: If `sortOptions` is not defined, the default sorting behavior of the Relationship field dropdown will be used.
 
-### Filtering relationship options
+## Filtering relationship options
 
 Options can be dynamically limited by supplying a [query constraint](/docs/queries/overview), which will be used both
 for validating input and filtering available relationships in the UI.
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ called with an argument object with the following properties:
 | `id`          | The `id` of the current document being edited. `id` is `undefined` during the `create` operation      |
 | `user`        | An object containing the currently authenticated user                                                 |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 ```ts
 import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types'
@@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ You can learn more about writing queries [here](/docs/queries/overview).
   <strong>payload/fields/validations</strong> in your validate function.
 </Banner>
 
-### How the data is saved
+## How the data is saved
 
 Given the variety of options possible within the `relationship` field type, the shape of the data needed for creating
 and updating these fields can vary. The following sections will describe the variety of data shapes that can arise from
 this field.
 
-#### Has One
+### Has One
 
 The most simple pattern of a relationship is to use `hasMany: false` with a `relationTo` that allows for only one type
 of collection.
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ When querying documents in this collection via REST API, you could query as foll
 
 `?where[owner][equals]=6031ac9e1289176380734024`.
 
-#### Has One - Polymorphic
+### Has One - Polymorphic
 
 Also known as **dynamic references**, in this configuration, the `relationTo` field is an array of Collection slugs that
 tells Payload which Collections are valid to reference.
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ You can also query for documents where a field has a relationship to a specific
 
 This query would return only documents that have an owner relationship to organizations.
 
-#### Has Many
+### Has Many
 
 The `hasMany` tells Payload that there may be more than one collection saved to the field.
 
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ When querying documents, the format does not change for arrays:
 
 `?where[owners][equals]=6031ac9e1289176380734024`.
 
-#### Has Many - Polymorphic
+### Has Many - Polymorphic
 
 ```ts
 {
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Querying is done in the same way as the earlier Polymorphic example:
 
 `?where[owners.value][equals]=6031ac9e1289176380734024`.
 
-#### Querying and Filtering Polymorphic Relationships
+### Querying and Filtering Polymorphic Relationships
 
 Polymorphic and non-polymorphic relationships must be queried differently because of how the related data is stored and
 may be inconsistent across different collections. Because of this, filtering polymorphic relationship fields from the

docs/fields/rich-text.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Rich Text Field
 label: Rich Text
 order: 140
 desc: The Rich Text field allows dynamic content to be written through the Admin Panel. Learn how to use Rich Text fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: rich text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: rich text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -28,14 +28,18 @@ Right now, Payload is officially supporting two rich text editors:
 <Banner type="success">
   <strong>
     Consistent with Payload's goal of making you learn as little of Payload as possible, customizing
-    and using the Rich Text Editor does not involve learning how to develop for a <em>Payload</em>{' '}
+    and using the Rich Text Editor does not involve learning how to develop for a
+    {' '}
+    <em>Payload</em>
+    {' '}
     rich text editor.
-  </strong>{' '}
+  </strong>
+
   Instead, you can invest your time and effort into learning the underlying open-source tools that
   will allow you to apply your learnings elsewhere as well.
 </Banner>
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                             |
 | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ Right now, Payload is officially supporting two rich text editors:
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Rich Text editor allows for the following admin properties:
 
@@ -71,6 +75,6 @@ Set this property to `true` to hide this field's gutter within the admin panel.
 
 Override the default text direction of the Admin panel for this field. Set to `true` to force right-to-left text direction.
 
-### Editor-specific options
+## Editor-specific options
 
 For a ton more editor-specific options, including how to build custom rich text elements directly into your editor, take a look at either the [Slate docs](/docs/rich-text/slate) or the [Lexical docs](/docs/rich-text/lexical) depending on which editor you're using.

docs/fields/row.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Row Field
 label: Row
 order: 150
 desc: With the Row field you can arrange fields next to each other in the Admin Panel to help you customize your Dashboard.
-keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Row field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option          | Description                                                                                                                                                                |
 | --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ keywords: row, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/select.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Select Field
 label: Select
 order: 160
 desc: The Select field provides a dropdown-style interface for choosing options from a predefined list. Learn how to use Select fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: select, multi-select, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: select, multi-select, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: select, multi-select, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Co
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Select field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
   being used as a GraphQL enum.
 </Banner>
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Select field type also allows for the following admin-specific properties:
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Set to `true` if you'd like this field to be clearable within the Admin UI.
 
 Set to `true` if you'd like this field to be sortable within the Admin UI using drag and drop. (Only works when `hasMany` is set to `true`)
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Customization
+## Customization
 
 The Select field UI component can be customized by providing a custom React component to the `components` object in the Base config.
 

docs/fields/tabs.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Tabs Field
 label: Tabs
 order: 170
 desc: The Tabs field is a great way to organize complex editing experiences into specific tab-based areas.
-keywords: tabs, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: tabs, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ keywords: tabs, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
   caption="Tabs field type used to separate Hero fields from Page Layout"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option        | Description                                                                                                              |
 | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ keywords: tabs, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 | **`admin`**   | Admin-specific configuration. See the [default field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config) for more details. |
 | **`custom`**  | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                                |
 
-#### Tab-specific Config
+### Tab-specific Config
 
 Each tab must have either a `name` or `label` and the required `fields` array. You can also optionally pass a `description` to render within each individual tab.
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Each tab must have either a `name` or `label` and the required `fields` array. Y
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/text.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Text Field
 label: Text
 order: 180
 desc: Text field types simply save a string to the database and provide the Admin panel with a text input. Learn how to use Text fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Text field and read-only Text field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ keywords: text, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Text field type allows for the following `admin` properties:
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Set this property to a string that will be used for browser autocomplete.
 
 Override the default text direction of the Admin panel for this field. Set to `true` to force right-to-left text direction.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/textarea.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Textarea Field
 label: Textarea
 order: 190
 desc: Textarea field types save a string to the database, similar to the Text field type but equipped for longer text. Learn how to use Textarea fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: textarea, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: textarea, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ keywords: textarea, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manage
   caption="Admin panel screenshot of a Textarea field and read-only Textarea field"
 />
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option             | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ keywords: textarea, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Manage
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Admin config
+## Admin config
 
 In addition to the default [field admin config](/docs/fields/overview#admin-config), the Textarea field type allows for the following `admin` properties:
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Set this property to a string that will be used for browser autocomplete.
 
 Override the default text direction of the Admin panel for this field. Set to `true` to force right-to-left text direction.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/ui.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: UI Field
 label: UI
 order: 200
 desc: UI fields are purely presentational and allow developers to customize the admin panel to a very fine degree, including adding actions and other functions.
-keywords: custom field, react component, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: custom field, react component, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ With this field, you can also inject custom `Cell` components that appear as add
 - Add a "view page" button into a Pages List view to give editors a shortcut to view a page on the frontend of the site
 - Build a "clear cache" button or similar mechanism to manually clear caches of specific documents
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option                          | Description                                                                                                            |
 | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@ With this field, you can also inject custom `Cell` components that appear as add
 | **`label`**                     | Human-readable label for this UI field.                                                                                |
 | **`admin.components.Field`** \* | React component to be rendered for this field within the Edit view. [More](/docs/admin/components/#field-component)    |
 | **`admin.components.Cell`**     | React component to be rendered as a Cell within collection List views. [More](/docs/admin/components/#field-component) |
+| **`admin.disableListColumn`**   | Set `disableListColumn` to `true` to prevent the UI field from appearing in the list view column selector.             |
 | **`custom`**                    | Extension point for adding custom data (e.g. for plugins)                                                              |
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 

docs/fields/upload.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Upload Field
 label: Upload
 order: 210
 desc: Upload fields will allow a file to be uploaded, only from a collection supporting Uploads. Learn how to use Upload fields, see examples and options.
-keywords: upload, images media, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: upload, images media, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner>
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ keywords: upload, images media, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Co
 - To allow for a `Product` to deliver a downloadable asset like PDF or MP3
 - To give a layout building block the ability to feature a background image
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 | Option               | Description                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ keywords: upload, images media, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Co
 
 _\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `collections/ExampleCollection.ts`
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export const ExampleCollection: CollectionConfig = {
 }
 ```
 
-### Filtering upload options
+## Filtering upload options
 
 Options can be dynamically limited by supplying a [query constraint](/docs/queries/overview), which will be used both
 for validating input and filtering available uploads in the UI.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ called with an argument object with the following properties:
 | `id`          | The `id` of the current document being edited. `id` is `undefined` during the `create` operation      |
 | `user`        | An object containing the currently authenticated user                                                 |
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 ```ts
 const uploadField = {

docs/getting-started/concepts.mdx

@@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ title: Payload Concepts
 label: Concepts
 order: 20
 desc: Payload is based around a small and intuitive set of concepts. Key concepts include collections, globals, fields and more.
-keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Payload is based around a small and intuitive set of concepts. Before starting to work with Payload, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the following:
 
-### Config
+## Config
 
 <Banner type="info">The Payload config is where you configure everything that Payload does.</Banner>
 
-By default, the Payload config lives in the root folder of your code and is named `payload.config.js` (`payload.config.ts` if you're using TypeScript), but you can customize its name and where you store it. You can write full functions and even full React components right into your config.
+By default, the Payload config lives in the root folder of your code and is named `payload.config.ts`, but you can customize its name and where you store it. You can write full functions and even full React components right into your config.
 
-### Collections
+## Collections
 
 <Banner type="info">
   A Collection represents a type of content that Payload will store and can contain many documents.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Collections define the shape of your data as well as all functionalities attache
 
 They can represent anything you can store in a database - for example - pages, posts, users, people, orders, categories, events, customers, transactions, and anything else your app needs.
 
-### Globals
+## Globals
 
 <Banner type="info">
   A Global is a "one-off" piece of content that is perfect for storing navigational structures,
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ They can represent anything you can store in a database - for example - pages, p
 
 Globals are in many ways similar to Collections, but there is only ever **one** instance of a Global, whereas Collections can contain many documents.
 
-### Fields
+## Fields
 
 <Banner type="info">
   Fields are the building blocks of Payload. Collections and Globals both use Fields to define the
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Globals are in many ways similar to Collections, but there is only ever **one**
 
 Payload comes with [many different field types](../fields/overview) that give you a ton of flexibility while designing your API. Each Field type has its own potential properties that allow you to customize how they work.
 
-### Hooks
+## Hooks
 
 <Banner type="info">
   Hooks are where you can "tie in" to existing Payload actions to perform your own additional logic
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Hooks are an extremely powerful concept and are central to extending and customi
 
 There are many more potential reasons to use Hooks. For more, visit the [Hooks documentation](/docs/hooks/overview).
 
-### Access Control
+## Access Control
 
 <Banner type="info">
   Access Control refers to Payload's system of defining who can do what to your API.
@@ -63,7 +63,84 @@ Access Control is extremely powerful but easy and intuitive to manage. You can e
 
 For more, visit the [Access Control documentation](/docs/access-control/overview).
 
-### Depth
+## Retrieving Payload data
+
+Everything Payload does (create, read, update, delete, login, logout, etc) is exposed to you via three APIs:
+
+**1 - Payload's Local API**
+
+By far one of the most powerful aspects of Payload is the fact that it gives you direct-to-database access to your data. It's _extremely_ fast and does not incur any typical REST API / GraphQL / HTTP overhead - you query your database directly in Node.js / TypeScript.
+
+Everything is strongly typed and it's extremely nice to use. It works anywhere on the server, including custom Next.js route handlers, Payload hooks, Payload access control, and React Server Components.
+
+Here's a quick example of a React Server Component fetching page data with Payload's Local API:
+
+```tsx
+import React from 'react'
+import config from '@payload-config'
+import { getPayloadHMR } from '@payloadcms/next'
+
+const MyServerComponent: React.FC = () => {
+  // If you're working in Next.js, and you want HMR,
+  // you should get Payload via the `getPayloadHMR` function.
+  const payload = await getPayloadHMR({ config })
+
+  // If you are writing a standalone script and do not need HMR,
+  // you can get Payload via import { getPayload } from 'payload' instead.
+
+  // The `findResult` here will be fully typed as `PaginatedDocs<Page>`,
+  // where you will have the `docs` that are returned as well as
+  // information about how many items are returned / are available in total / etc
+  const findResult = await payload.find({ collection: 'pages' })
+
+  return (
+    <ul>
+      {findResult.docs.map((page) => {
+        // Render whatever here!
+        // The `page` is fully typed as your Pages collection!
+      })}
+    </ul>
+  )
+}
+```
+
+For more docs about the Payload Local API, [click here](/docs/beta/local-api/overview).
+
+**2 - The REST API**
+
+By default, the Payload REST API will be mounted automatically for you at the `/api` path of your app.
+
+For example, if you have a collection with the `slug` as `pages`, you'd fetch pages via `http://localhost:3000/api/pages`.
+
+Here's an example:
+
+```ts
+const pages = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/pages', {
+  // Include cookies, like the Payload auth token
+  credentials: 'include',
+}).then((res) => res.json())
+```
+
+For a full list of REST API endpoints, including examples, [click here](/docs/beta/rest-api/overview).
+
+**3 - GraphQL**
+
+Payload automatically exposes GraphQL queries and mutations for everything it does.
+
+By default, you'll find the GraphQL route handler in your `/app/(payload)/api/graphql` folder, which makes the GraphQL endpoint available by default at `http://localhost:3000/api/graphql`.
+
+You'll also find a full GraphQL Playground which can be accessible via `http://localhost:3000/api/graphql-playground`.
+
+You can use any GraphQL client with Payload's GraphQL endpoint. Here are a few packages:
+
+- [`graphql-request`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/graphql-request) - a very lightweight GraphQL client
+- [`@apollo/client`](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/core/ApolloClient/) - an industry-standard GraphQL client with lots of nice features
+
+If you don't use GraphQL, you can delete those files! But if you do, you'll find that GraphQL is a first-class API in Payload. Either way, the overhead of GraphQL is completely constrained to these endpoints, and will not slow down / affect Payload outside of those endpoints themselves.
+
+For more docs on GraphQL, [click here](/docs/beta/graphql/overview). 
+
+## Depth
 
 <Banner type="info">
   "Depth" gives you control over how many levels down related documents should be automatically
@@ -156,9 +233,77 @@ To populate `user.author.department` in it's entirety you could specify `?depth=
 }
 ```
 
+### Field-level max depth
+
+Fields like relationships or uploads can have a `maxDepth` property that limits the depth of the population for that field. Here are some examples:
+
+Depth: 10
+Current depth when field is accessed: 1
+`maxDepth`: undefined
+
+In this case, the field would be populated to 9 levels of population.
+
+Depth: 10
+Current depth when field is accessed: 0
+`maxDepth`: 2
+
+In this case, the field would be populated to 2 levels of population, despite there being a remaining depth of 8.
+
+Depth: 10
+Current depth when field is accessed: 2
+`maxDepth`: 1
+
+In this case, the field would not be populated, as the current depth (2) has exceeded the `maxDepth` for this field (1).
+
 <Banner type="warning">
   <strong>Note:</strong>
   <br />
   When access control on collections prevents relationship fields from populating, the API response
   will contain the relationship id instead of the full document.
 </Banner>
+
+## Package organization
+
+Payload is abstracted into a set of dedicated packages, and it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with what each one is responsible for.
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  <br/>
+  Version numbers of all official Payload packages are kept in sync - and you should always make sure that you use matching versions for all official Payload packages. 
+</Banner>
+
+`payload`
+
+The `payload` package is where core business logic for Payload lives. You can think of Payload as an ORM with superpowers - it contains the logic for all Payload "operations" like `find`, `create`, `update`, and `delete`. It executes access control, hooks, validation, and more.
+
+Payload itself is extremely compact, and can be used in any Node environment. As long as you have `payload` installed and you have access to your Payload config, you can query and mutate your database directly without going through an unnecessary HTTP layer.
+
+Payload also contains all TypeScript definitions, which can be imported from `payload` directly.
+
+Here's how to import some common Payload types:
+
+```ts
+import { CollectionConfig, Field, GlobalConfig, Config } from 'payload'
+```
+
+`@payloadcms/next`
+
+Whereas Payload itself is responsible for direct database access, and control over Payload business logic, the `@payloadcms/next` package is responsible for the admin panel and the entire HTTP layer (REST, GraphQL) that Payload exposes. 
+
+`@payloadcms/graphql`
+
+All of Payload's GraphQL functionality is abstracted into a separate package. Payload, its Admin UI, and REST API have absolutely no overlap with GraphQL, and you will incur no performance overhead from GraphQL if you are not using it. However, it's installed within in the `@payloadcms/next` package so you don't have to install it manually. You do, however, need to have GraphQL installed separately in your `package.json` if you are using GraphQL.
+
+`@payloadcms/ui`
+
+This is the UI library that Payload's admin panel uses. All components are exported from this package and can be re-used as you build extensions to the Payload admin UI, or want to use Payload components in your own React apps. Some exports are server components and some are client components.
+
+`@payloadcms/db-postgres`, `@payloadcms/db-mongodb`
+
+You can choose which database adapter you'd like to use for your project, and no matter which you choose, the entire data layer for Payload is contained within these packages. You can only use one at a time for any given project.
+
+`@payloadcms/richtext-lexical`, `@payloadcms/richtext-slate`
+
+Payload's Rich Text functionality is abstracted into separate packages and if you want to enable Rich Text in your project, you'll need to install one of these packages. We recommend Lexical for all new projects, and this is where Payload will focus its efforts on from this point, but Slate is still supported if you have already built with it.
+
+Rich Text is entirely optional and you may not need it for your project.

docs/getting-started/installation.mdx

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ title: Installation
 label: Installation
 order: 30
 desc: To quickly get started with Payload, simply run npx create-payload-app or install from scratch.
-keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-#### Software Requirements
+## Software Requirements
 
 Payload requires the following software:
 
-- Any JavaScript package manager (Yarn, NPM, or pnpm)
-- Node.js version 18+
+- Any JavaScript package manager (Yarn, NPM, or pnpm - pnpm is preferred)
+- Node.js version 20.9.0+
 - Any [compatible database](/docs/database/overview) (MongoDB or Postgres)
 
 <Banner type="warning">
@@ -23,131 +23,151 @@ Payload requires the following software:
 To quickly scaffold a new Payload app in the fastest way possible, you can use [create-payload-app](https://npmjs.com/package/create-payload-app). To do so, run the following command:
 
 ```
-npx create-payload-app@latest
+npx create-payload-app@beta
 ```
 
 Then just follow the prompts! You'll get set up with a new folder and a functioning Payload app inside.
 
 ## Adding to an existing app
 
-Adding Payload to either a new or existing TypeScript + Express app is super straightforward. To add to an existing app, just run `npm install --save --legacy-peer-deps payload`.
+Adding Payload to an existing Next.js app is super straightforward. You can either run the `npx create-payload-app@beta` command inside your Next.js project's folder, or manually install Payload by following the steps below.
 
-From there, the first step is writing a baseline config. Create a new `payload.config.ts` in your project's `/src` directory (or whatever your root TS dir is). The simplest config contains the following:
+If you don't have a Next.js app already, but you still want to start a project from a blank Next.js app, you can create a new Next.js app using `npx create-next-app` - and then just follow the steps below to install Payload.
 
-```js
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+#### 1 - install the relevant packages
 
-export default buildConfig({
-  // By default, Payload will boot up normally
-  // and you will be provided with a base `User` collection.
-  // But, here is where you define how you'd like Payload to work!
-})
+First, you'll want to add the required Payload packages to your project and can do so by running the command below (swap out `pnpm` for your package manager). Note that if you are using NPM, you might need to install using legacy peer deps (`npm i --legacy-peer-deps`).
+
+```
+pnpm i payload@beta @payloadcms/next@beta @payloadcms/richtext-lexical@beta sharp graphql
 ```
 
-Write the above code into your newly created config file. This baseline config will automatically provide you with a default `User` collection. For more information about users and authentication, including how to provide your own user config, jump to the [Authentication](/docs/authentication/config) section.
+You'll also need to install the database adapter that you'd like to use. You have the option of Postgres (`@payloadcms/db-postgres`) or MongoDB (`@payloadcms/db-mongodb`).
+
+#### 2 - copy Payload files into your Next.js app folder
+
+Payload installs directly in your Next.js `/app` folder, and you'll need to place some files into that folder for Payload to run.
+
+The files that Payload needs to have in your `/app` folder do not regenerate, and will never change. Once you slot them in, you never have to revisit them. They are not meant to be edited and simply import Payload dependencies from `@payloadcms/next` for the REST / GraphQL API and Payload admin UI.
+
+You can copy the Payload `/app` folder files from the Payload blank template on GitHub:
+
+```
+https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/beta/templates/blank-3.0/src/app/(payload)
+```
+
+Notice how the Payload files are all kept within the `(payload)` [Route Group](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/route-groups)? That's so that the Payload admin UI can have its own separate [Root Layout](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/pages-and-layouts#root-layout-required) which will allow it to not interfere whatsoever with an existing Next.js app if you have one. 
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  You may need to copy all of your existing frontend files, including your existing root layout, into its own newly created route group.
+</Banner>
+
+Once you have the required Payload files in place in your `/app` folder, you should have something like this:
+
+```
+/app
+  -- (payload) // This is the Payload route group
+     -- layout.tsx // Payload's root layout
+     -- admin // The Payload admin UI
+     -- api // Payload's REST / GraphQL handlers
+     -- custom.scss // Define custom SCSS for the Payload admin here
+  -- (my-app) // this is where your existing app goes
+     -- layout.tsx // move your existing root layout here
+     -- page.tsx // your existing home page
+     -- ...etc // whatever else you have
+```
+
+You can name the `(my-app)` folder anything you want. The name does not matter and will just be used to clarify your directory structure for yourself. Common names might be `(frontend)`, `(app)`, or similar. [Check out the Admin documentation](/docs/beta/admin/overview) for more information.
+
+#### 3 - add the Payload plugin to your Next.js config
+
+Payload has a plugin that it uses to ensure Next.js compatibility with some of the packages Payload relies on, like `mongodb` or `drizzle-kit`.
+
+You need to import the `withPayload` plugin in your `next.config.js` file and wrap your config with it.
+
+Here's an example of what your Next.js config should look like after you've imported the Payload plugin:
+
+```js
+import { withPayload } from '@payloadcms/next/withPayload'
+
+/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
+const nextConfig = {
+  // Your Next.js config here
+  experimental: {
+    reactCompiler: false
+  }
+}
+
+// Make sure you wrap your `nextConfig`
+// with the `withPayload` plugin
+export default withPayload(nextConfig)
+```
+
+**Important:** Payload is a fully ESM project, and that means the `withPayload` function is an EcmaScript module.
+
+To import it, you need to make sure your `next.config` file is set up to use ESM.
+
+You can do this in one of two ways:
+
+1. Set your own project to use ESM, by adding `"type": "module"` to your `package.json` file
+2. Give your Next.js config the `.mjs` file extension
+
+In either case, all `require`s and `export`s in your `next.config` file will need to be converted to `import` / `export` if they are not set up that way already.
+
+#### 4 - create a Payload config and add it to your TypeScript config
+
+Finally, you need to create a barebones Payload config.
+
+Generally the Payload config is located at the root of your repository, or next to your `/app` folder, and is named `payload.config.ts`. Here's what Payload needs at a bare minimum:
+
+```ts
+import sharp from 'sharp'
+import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+import { mongooseAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-mongodb'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  // If you'd like to use Rich Text, pass your editor here
+  editor: lexicalEditor(),
+
+  // Define and configure your collections in this array
+  collections: [],
+
+  // Your Payload secret - should be a complex and secure string, unguessable  
+  secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET || '',
+
+  // Whichever database adapter you're using should go here
+  // Mongoose is shown as an example, but you can also use Postgres 
+  db: mongooseAdapter({
+    url: process.env.DATABASE_URI || '',
+  }),
+
+  // If you want to resize images, crop, set focal point, etc.
+  // make sure to install it and pass it to the config.
+  // This is optional - if you don't need to do these things, 
+  // you don't need it!
+  sharp,
+})
+```
 
 Although this is just the bare minimum config, there are _many_ more options that you can control here. To reference the full config and all of its options, [click here](/docs/configuration/overview).
 
-### Server
+Once you have your config created, update your `tsconfig` to include a `path` that points to your config:
 
-Now that you've got a baseline Payload config, it's time to initialize Payload. It requires an Express server that you provide, so if you're not familiar with how to set up a baseline Express server, please read up on exactly what Express is and why to use it. Express' own [Documentation](https://expressjs.com/en/starter/hello-world.html) is a good place to start. Otherwise, follow along below for how to build your own Express server to use with Payload.
-
-1. Run `npm install --save --legacy-peer-deps express` if you have not done so already
-1. Create a new `server.ts` file in the root directory of your app
-1. Add the following code to `server.ts`:
-
-```ts
-import express from 'express'
-
-const app = express()
-
-app.listen(3000, async () => {
-  console.log('Express is now listening for incoming connections on port 3000.')
-})
-```
-
-This server doesn't do anything just yet. But, after you have this in place, we can initialize Payload via its asynchronous `init()` method, which accepts a small set of arguments to tell it how to operate.
-
-To initialize Payload, update your `server.ts` file to reflect the following code:
-
-```ts
-import express from 'express'
-import payload from 'payload'
-
-require('dotenv').config()
-const app = express()
-
-const start = async () => {
-  await payload.init({
-    secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
-    express: app,
-  })
-
-  app.listen(3000, async () => {
-    console.log('Express is now listening for incoming connections on port 3000.')
-  })
+```json
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "paths": {
+      "@payload-config": [
+        "./payload.config.ts"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
 }
-
-start()
 ```
 
-A quick reminder: in this configuration, we're making use of environmental variables, `process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET`. Often, it's smart to store these values in an `.env` file at the root of your directory and set different values for each of your environments (local, stage, prod, etc). The `dotenv` package is very handy and works well alongside of Payload. A typical `.env` file will look like this:
+#### 5 - fire it up!
 
-```
-DATABASE_URI=mongodb://127.0.0.1/your-payload-app
-PAYLOAD_SECRET=your-payload-secret
-```
-
-Here is a list of all properties available to pass through `payload.init`:
-
-##### secret
-
-**Required**. This is a secure string that will be used to authenticate with Payload. It can be random but should be at least 14 characters and be very difficult to guess.
-
-Payload uses this secret key to generate secure user tokens (JWT). Behind the scenes, we do not use your secret key to encrypt directly - instead, we first take the secret key and create an encrypted string using the SHA-256 hash function. Then, we reduce the encrypted string to its first 32 characters. This final value is what Payload uses for encryption.
-
-##### config
-
-Allows you to pass your config directly to the onInit function. The config passed here should match the payload.config file.
-
-##### disableOnInit
-
-A boolean that disables running your `onInit` function when Payload starts up.
-
-##### disableDBConnect
-
-A boolean that disables the database connection when Payload starts up.
-
-##### email
-
-An object used to configure SMTP. [Read more](/docs/email/overview).
-
-##### express
-
-This is your Express app as shown above. Payload will tie into your existing `app` and scope all of its functionalities to sub-routers. By default, Payload will add an `/admin` router and an `/api` router, but you can customize these paths.
-
-##### local
-
-A boolean that when set to `true` tells Payload to start in local-only mode which will bypass setting up API routes. When set to `true`, `express` is not required. This is useful when running scripts that need to use Payload's [local-api](/docs/local-api/overview).
-
-##### loggerDestination
-
-Specify destination stream for the built-in Pino logger that Payload uses for internal logging. See [Pino Docs](https://getpino.io/#/docs/api?id=pino-destination) for more info on what is available.
-
-##### loggerOptions
-
-Specify options for the built-in Pino logger that Payload uses for internal logging. See [Pino Docs](https://getpino.io/#/docs/api?id=options) for more info on what is available.
-
-##### onInit
-
-A function that is called immediately following startup that receives the Payload instance as it's only argument.
-
-### Test it out
-
-After you've gotten this far, it's time to boot up Payload. Start your project in your application's folder to get going.
+After you've gotten this far, it's time to boot up Payload. Start your project in your application's folder to get going. By default, the Next.js dev script is `pnpm dev` (or `npm run dev` if using NPM).
 
 After it starts, you can go to `http://localhost:3000/admin` to create your first Payload user!
-
-### Docker
-
-Looking to deploy Payload with Docker? New projects with `create-payload-app` come with a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file ready to go. Examples of these files can be seen in our [Deployment docs](/docs/production/deployment#docker).

docs/getting-started/what-is-payload.mdx

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: What is Payload?
 label: What is Payload?
 order: 10
-desc: Payload is a next-gen headless Content Management System (CMS) and application framework.
+desc: Payload is a next-gen application framework that can be used as a Content Management System, enterprise tool framework, headless commerce platform, or digital asset management tool.
 keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
 ---
 
@@ -11,56 +11,117 @@ keywords: documentation, getting started, guide, Content Management System, cms,
   title="Payload Introduction - Closing the Gap Between Headless CMS and Application Frameworks"
 />
 
-Payload is a headless CMS and application framework. It's meant to provide a massive boost to your
-development process, but importantly, stay out of your way as your apps get more complex.
+**Payload is the Next.js fullstack framework.** Write a Payload config and instantly get:
+
+- A full admin panel using React server / client components, matching the shape of your data and completely extensible with your own React components
+- Automatic database schema, including direct DB access and ownership, with migrations, transactions, proper indexing, and more
+- Instant REST, GraphQL, and straight-to-DB Node APIs
+- Authentication which can be used in your own apps
+- A deeply customizable access control pattern
+- File storage and image management tools like cropping / focal point selection
+- Live preview - see your frontend render content changes in realtime as you update
+- Lots more
+
+### Instant backend superpowers
+
+No matter what you're building, Payload will give you backend superpowers. It can be installed in one line into any existing Next.js app, and is designed to catapult your development process. Payload takes the most complex and time-consuming parts of any modern web app and makes them simple.
+
+### Open source - deploy anywhere, including Vercel
+
+It's fully open source with an MIT license and you can self-host anywhere that you can run a Node app. You can also deploy serverless to hosts like Vercel, right inside your existing Next.js app folder.
+
+### Fully extensible
+
+Even in spite of how much you get out of the box, you still have full control over every aspect of your app - be it database, admin UI, or anything else. Every part of Payload has been designed to be extensible and customizable with modern TypeScript / React. And you'll fully understand the code that you write.
+
+In Payload, there are no "click ops" - as in clicking around in an admin panel to define your schema. In Payload, everything is done the right way—code-first and version controlled like a proper backend. But once developers define how Payload should work, non-technical users can independently make use of its admin panel to manage whatever they need to without having to know code whatsoever.
+
+## Use cases
+
+Payload started as a headless Content Management System (CMS), but since, we've seen our community leverage Payload in ways far outside of simply managing pages and blog posts. It's grown into a full-stack TypeScript app framework. 
+
+Large enterprises use Payload to power significant internal tools, retailers power their entire storefronts without the need for headless Shopify, and massive amounts of digital assets are stored + managed within Payload. Of course, websites large and small still use Payload for content management as well.
+
+### As a CMS
+
+The biggest barrier in large web projects cited by marketers is engineering. On the flip side, engineers say the opposite. This is a big problem that has yet to be solved even though we have countless CMS options.
+
+Payload has restored a little love back into the dev / marketer equation with features like Live Preview, redirects, form builders, visual editing, static A/B testing, and more. But even with all this focus on marketing efficiency, we aren't compromising on the developer experience. That way engineers and marketers alike can be proud of the products they build.
+
+If you're building a website and your frontend is on Next.js, then Payload is a no-brainer. 
 
 <Banner type="success">
-  <strong>Payload 2.0 has been released!</strong>
-  <br />
-  Includes Postgres support, Live Preview, Lexical Editor, and more.{' '}
-  <a href="/blog/payload-2-0">Read the announcement</a>.
+  Instead of going out and signing up for a SaaS vendor that makes it so you have to manage two completely separate concerns, with little to no native connection back and forth, just install Payload in your existing Next.js repo and instantly get a full CMS.
 </Banner>
 
-Out of the box, Payload gives you a lot of the things that you often need when developing a new website, web app, or native app:
+Get started with Payload as a CMS using our official Website template:
 
-- A database to store your data (Postgres and MongoDB supported)
-- A way to store, retrieve, and manipulate data of any shape via full REST and GraphQL APIs
-- Authentication—complete with commonly required functionality like registration, email verification, login, & password reset
-- Deep access control to your data, based on document or field-level functions
-- File storage and access control
-- A beautiful admin UI that's generated specifically to suit your data
+```
+npx create-payload-app@latest -t website
+```
 
-## What does "headless" mean?
+### For enterprise tools
 
-A headless CMS is a system that sticks to what it's good at—managing content. It concentrates solely on granting administrators an effective way to author and maintain content, but doesn't control how and where that content is used.
+When a large organization starts up a new software initiative, there's a lot of plumbing to take care of.
 
-In this way, the CMS can ensure that its content editing experience is highly polished and effective while avoiding placing creative constraints on designers or restricting development teams. In contrast, traditional content management systems bind the presentation of your content to the storage of your content and severely limit the creativity, development and usability of the content that they manage.
+- Scaffold the data layer with an ORM or an app framework like Ruby on Rails or Laravel
+- Implement their SSO provider for authentication
+- Design an access control pattern for authorization
+- Open up any REST endpoints required or implement GraphQL queries / mutations
+- Implement a migrations workflow for the database as it changes over time
+- Integrate with other third party solutions by crafting a system of webhooks or similar
 
-At this point this concept is [widely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_content_management_system) [discussed](https://css-tricks.com/what-is-a-headless-cms/) online, and for good reason. The web has become more complicated and with complexity comes the demand for developers to better structure their code. The rise of interface libraries like React and Vue are now the de-facto standard for building modern applications and traditional content management systems are often not designed to make use of them.
+And then there's the admin panel. Most enterprise tools require an admin UI, and building one from scratch can be the most time-consuming aspect of any new enterprise tool. There are off-the-shelf packages for app frameworks like Rails, but often the customization is so involved that using Material UI or similar from scratch might be better.
 
-### Why Payload?
+Then there are no-code admin builders that could be used. However, wiring up access control and the connection to the data layer, with proper version control, makes this a challenging task as well.
 
-The team behind Payload has been building websites and apps with existing content management systems and application frameworks for over a decade. We know what works and what doesn't about each of the existing solutions, and to this day have found no silver bullet solution.
+That's where Payload comes in. Payload instantly provides all of this out of the box, making complex internal tools extremely simple to both spin up and maintain over time. The only custom code that will need to be written is any custom business logic. That means Payload can expedite timelines, keep budgets low, and allow engineers to focus on their specific requirements rather than complex backend / admin UI plumbing.
 
-**We believe that a CMS should be:**
+Generally, the best place to start for a new enterprise tool is with a blank canvas, where you can define your own functionality:
 
-- Cost-effective and should save time and effort
-- Intuitive for developers and content authors alike
-- Self-hosted however and wherever the application specifies
-- Designed in code but used with no coding experience
-- Blazing fast
-- Secure
-- Fully flexible and extensible
+```
+npx create-payload-app@latest -t blank
+```
 
-Payload is our silver bullet solution. We've blended the best parts of our experience with other CMS and app frameworks into Payload, and we finally have everything we need when we build new apps and websites:
+### Headless commerce
 
-- A beautiful, dynamic, customizable admin UI
-- Extensible and reusable authentication
-- Content localization
-- Local file storage
-- Extremely flexible access control
-- Field conditional logic
-- Block-based layout building
-- Array field type(s)
-- Security
-- and much more
+Companies who prioritize UX generally run into frontend constraints with traditional commerce vendors. These companies will then opt for frontend frameworks like Next.js which allow them to fine-tune their user experience as much as possible—promoting conversions, personalizing experiences, and optimizing for SEO. 
+
+But the challenge with using something like Next.js for headless commerce is that in order for non-technical users to manage the storefront, you instantly need to pair a headless commerce product with a headless CMS. Then, your editors need to bounce back and forth between different admin UIs for different functionality. The code required to seamlessly glue them together on the frontend becomes overly complex.
+
+Payload can integrate with any payment processor like Stripe and its content authoring capabilities allow it to manage every aspect of a storefront—all in one place.
+
+If you can build your storefront with a single backend, and only offload things like payment processing, the code will be simpler and the editing experience will be significantly streamlined. Manage products, catalogs, page content, media, and more—all in one spot.
+
+Payload's official Ecommerce template gives you everything you need for a storefront out of the box, including a Next.js frontend, product variations, and a full Stripe implementation:
+
+```
+npx create-payload-app@latest -t ecommerce
+```
+
+### Digital asset management
+
+Payload's API-first tagging, sorting, and querying engine lends itself perfectly to all types of content that a CMS might ordinarily store, but these strong fundamentals also make it a formidable Digital Asset Management (DAM) tool as well.
+
+Similarly to the Ecommerce use case above, if an organization uses a CMS for its content but a separate DAM for its digital assets, administrators of both tools will need to juggle completely different services for tasks that are closely related. Two subscriptions will need to be managed, two sets of infrastructure will need to be provisioned, and two admin UIs need to be used / learned.
+
+Payload flattens CMS and DAM into a single tool that makes no compromises on either side. Powerful features like folder-based organization, file versioning, bulk upload, and media access control allow Payload to simultaneously function as a full Digital Asset Management platform as well as a Content Management System at the same time.
+
+[Click here](https://payloadcms.com/use-cases/digital-asset-management) for more information on how to get started with Payload as a DAM.
+
+### When Payload might be for you
+
+- If data ownership and privacy are important to you, and you don't want to allow another proprietary SaaS vendor to host and own your data
+- If you're building a Next.js site that needs a CMS
+- If you need to re-use your data outside of a SaaS API
+- If what you're building has custom business logic requirements outside of a typical headless CMS
+- You want to deploy serverless on platforms like Vercel
+
+### When Payload might not be for you
+
+- If you can manage your project fully with code, and don't need an admin UI
+- If you are building a website that fits within the limits a tool like Webflow or Framer
+- If you already have a full database and just need to visualize the data somehow 
+- If you are confident that you won't need code / data ownership at any point in the future
+
+Ready to get started? First, let's review some high-level concepts that are used in Payload.

docs/graphql/extending.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Adding your own Queries and Mutations
 label: Custom Queries and Mutations
 order: 20
 desc: Payload allows you to add your own GraphQL queries and mutations, simply set up GraphQL in your main Payload config by following these instructions.
-keywords: graphql, resolvers, mutations, custom, queries, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: graphql, resolvers, mutations, custom, queries, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 You can add your own GraphQL queries and mutations to Payload, making use of all the types that Payload has defined for you.
@@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ This is Payload's GraphQL dependency. You should not install your own copy of Gr
 
 This is a copy of the currently running Payload instance, which provides you with existing GraphQL types for all of your Collections and Globals - among other things.
 
-##### Return value
+## Return value
 
 Both `graphQL.queries` and `graphQL.mutations` functions should return an object with properties equal to your newly written GraphQL queries and mutations.
 
-### Example
+## Example
 
 `payload.config.js`:
 
 ```ts
-import { buildConfig } from 'payload/config'
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
 import myCustomQueryResolver from './graphQL/resolvers/myCustomQueryResolver'
 
 export default buildConfig({
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
 })
 ```
 
-### Resolver function
+## Resolver function
 
 In your resolver, make sure you set `depth: 0` if you're returning data directly from the local API so that GraphQL can correctly resolve queries to nested values such as relationship data.
 
@@ -96,13 +96,28 @@ An object containing the `req` and `res` objects that will provide you with the
 
 Contextual information about the currently running GraphQL operation. You can get schema information from this as well as contextual information about where this resolver function is being run.
 
-### Types
+## Types
 
 We've exposed a few types and utilities to help you extend the API further. Payload uses the GraphQL.js package for which you can view the full list of available types in the [official documentation](https://graphql.org/graphql-js/type/).
 
+**`GraphQLJSON`** & **`GraphQLJSONObject`**
+
+```ts
+import { GraphQLJSON, GraphQLJSONObject } from '@payloadcms/graphql/types'
+```
+
 **`GraphQL`**
 
-You can directly import the GraphQL package used by Payload, most useful for typing. For queries, mutations and handlers make sure you use the `GraphQL` and `payload` instances provided via arguments.
+You can directly import the GraphQL package used by Payload, most useful for typing.
+
+```ts
+import { GraphQL } from '@payloadcms/graphql/types'
+```
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  For queries, mutations and handlers make sure you use the `GraphQL` and `payload` instances provided via arguments.
+</Banner>
+
 
 **`buildPaginatedListType`**
 
@@ -112,6 +127,8 @@ It takes in two arguments, the first for the name of this new schema type and th
 Example
 
 ```ts
+import { buildPaginatedListType } from '@payloadcms/graphql/types'
+
 export const getMyPosts = (GraphQL, payload) => {
   return {
     args: {},
@@ -138,7 +155,7 @@ graphQL?: {
 }
 ```
 
-### Best practices
+## Best practices
 
 There are a few ways to structure your code, we recommend using a dedicated `graphql` directory so you can keep all of your logic in one place. You have total freedom of how you want to structure this but a common pattern is to group functions by type and with their resolver.
 

docs/graphql/graphql-schema.mdx

@@ -3,20 +3,26 @@ title: GraphQL Schema
 label: GraphQL Schema
 order: 30
 desc: Output your own GraphQL schema based on your collections and globals to a file.
-keywords: headless cms, typescript, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: headless cms, typescript, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-When working with GraphQL it is useful to have the schema for development of other projects that need to call on your GraphQL endpoint. In Payload the schema is controlled by your collections and globals and is made available to the developer or third parties, it is not necessary for developers using Payload to write schema types manually.
+In Payload the schema is controlled by your collections and globals. All you need to do is run the generate command and the entire schema will be created for you.
 
-### Schema generation script
+## Schema generation script
 
-Run the following command in a Payload project to generate your project's GraphQL schema from Payload:
+Install `@payloadcms/graphql` as a dev dependency:
 
-```
-payload generate:graphQLSchema
+```bash
+pnpm add @payloadcms/graphql --save-dev
 ```
 
-### Custom Field Schemas
+Run the following command to generate the schema:
+
+```bash
+pnpm payload-graphql generate:schema
+```
+
+## Custom Field Schemas
 
 For `array`, `block`, `group` and named `tab` fields, you can generate top level reusable interfaces. The following group field config:
 
@@ -24,7 +30,7 @@ For `array`, `block`, `group` and named `tab` fields, you can generate top level
 {
   type: 'group',
   name: 'meta',
-  interfaceName: 'SharedMeta', <-- here!!
+  interfaceName: 'SharedMeta', // highlight-line
   fields: [
     {
       name: 'title',
@@ -41,13 +47,13 @@ For `array`, `block`, `group` and named `tab` fields, you can generate top level
 will generate:
 
 ```ts
-// a top level reusable type!!
+// A top level reusable type will be generated
 type SharedMeta {
   title: String
   description: String
 }
 
-// example usage inside collection schema
+// And will be referenced inside the generated schema
 type Collection1 {
   // ...other fields
   meta: SharedMeta
@@ -56,7 +62,7 @@ type Collection1 {
 
 The above example outputs all your definitions to a file relative from your payload config as `./graphql/schema.graphql`. By default, the file will be output to your current working directory as `schema.graphql`.
 
-#### Adding an NPM script
+### Adding an NPM script
 
 <Banner type="warning">
   <strong>Important</strong>
@@ -64,16 +70,18 @@ The above example outputs all your definitions to a file relative from your payl
   Payload needs to be able to find your config to generate your GraphQL schema.
 </Banner>
 
-Payload will automatically try and locate your config, but might not always be able to find it. For example, if you are working in a `/src` directory or similar, you need to tell Payload where to find your config manually by using an environment variable. If this applies to you, you can create an NPM script to make generating your types easier.
+Payload will automatically try and locate your config, but might not always be able to find it. For example, if you are working in a `/src` directory or similar, you need to tell Payload where to find your config manually by using an environment variable.
 
-To add an NPM script to generate your types and show Payload where to find your config, open your `package.json` and update the `scripts` property to the following:
+If this applies to you, create an NPM script to make generating types easier:
 
 ```json
+// package.json
+
 {
   "scripts": {
-    "generate:graphQLSchema": "cross-env PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=src/payload.config.ts payload generate:graphQLSchema"
+    "generate:graphQLSchema": "cross-env PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=src/payload.config.ts payload-graphql generate:schema"
   }
 }
 ```
 
-Now you can run `yarn generate:graphQLSchema` to easily generate your schema.
+Now you can run `pnpm generate:graphQLSchema` to easily generate your schema.

docs/graphql/overview.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: GraphQL Overview
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: Payload ships with a fully featured and extensible GraphQL API, which can be used in addition to the REST and Local APIs to give you more flexibility.
-keywords: graphql, resolvers, mutations, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: graphql, resolvers, mutations, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 In addition to its REST and Local APIs, Payload ships with a fully featured and extensible GraphQL API.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ At the top of your Payload config you can define all the options to manage Graph
 Everything that can be done to a Collection via the REST or Local API can be done with GraphQL (outside of uploading files, which is REST-only). If you have a collection as follows:
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
 
 export const PublicUser: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'public-users',
@@ -44,32 +44,32 @@ export const PublicUser: CollectionConfig = {
 
 | Query Name              | Operation           |
 | ------------------      | ------------------- |
-| **`PublicUser`**        | `findByID`          |
-| **`PublicUsers`**       | `find`              |
-| **`countPublicUsers`**  | `count`             |
-| **`mePublicUser`**      | `me` auth operation |
+| `PublicUser`        | `findByID`          |
+| `PublicUsers`       | `find`              |
+| `countPublicUsers`  | `count`             |
+| `mePublicUser`      | `me` auth operation |
 
 **And the following mutations:**
 
 | Query Name                     | Operation                       |
 | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------- |
-| **`createPublicUser`**         | `create`                        |
-| **`updatePublicUser`**         | `update`                        |
-| **`deletePublicUser`**         | `delete`                        |
-| **`forgotPasswordPublicUser`** | `forgotPassword` auth operation |
-| **`resetPasswordPublicUser`**  | `resetPassword` auth operation  |
-| **`unlockPublicUser`**         | `unlock` auth operation         |
-| **`verifyPublicUser`**         | `verify` auth operation         |
-| **`loginPublicUser`**          | `login` auth operation          |
-| **`logoutPublicUser`**         | `logout` auth operation         |
-| **`refreshTokenPublicUser`**   | `refresh` auth operation        |
+| `createPublicUser`         | `create`                        |
+| `updatePublicUser`         | `update`                        |
+| `deletePublicUser`         | `delete`                        |
+| `forgotPasswordPublicUser` | `forgotPassword` auth operation |
+| `resetPasswordPublicUser`  | `resetPassword` auth operation  |
+| `unlockPublicUser`         | `unlock` auth operation         |
+| `verifyPublicUser`         | `verify` auth operation         |
+| `loginPublicUser`          | `login` auth operation          |
+| `logoutPublicUser`         | `logout` auth operation         |
+| `refreshTokenPublicUser`   | `refresh` auth operation        |
 
 ## Globals
 
 Globals are also fully supported. For example:
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import type { GlobalConfig } from 'payload';
 
 const Header: GlobalConfig = {
   slug: 'header',
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ const Header: GlobalConfig = {
 
 | Query Name   | Operation |
 | ------------ | --------- |
-| **`Header`** | `findOne` |
+| `Header` | `findOne` |
 
 **And the following mutation:**
 
 | Query Name         | Operation |
 | ------------------ | --------- |
-| **`updateHeader`** | `update`  |
+| `updateHeader` | `update`  |
 
 ## Preferences
 
@@ -99,14 +99,14 @@ User [preferences](/docs/admin/overview#preferences) for the admin panel are als
 
 | Query Name       | Operation |
 | ---------------- | --------- |
-| **`Preference`** | `findOne` |
+| `Preference` | `findOne` |
 
 **And the following mutations:**
 
 | Query Name             | Operation |
 | ---------------------- | --------- |
-| **`updatePreference`** | `update`  |
-| **`deletePreference`** | `delete`  |
+| `updatePreference` | `update`  |
+| `deletePreference` | `delete`  |
 
 ## GraphQL Playground
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ You can even log in using the `login[collection-singular-label-here]` mutation t
   <br />
   To see more regarding how the above queries and mutations are used, visit your GraphQL playground
   (by default at
-  [http://localhost:3000/api/graphql-playground](http://localhost:3000/api/graphql-playground))
+  [`${SERVER_URL}/api/graphql-playground`](http://localhost:3000/api/graphql-playground))
   while your server is running. There, you can use the "Schema" and "Docs" buttons on the right to
   see a ton of detail about how GraphQL operates within Payload.
 </Banner>

docs/hooks/collections.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Collection Hooks
 label: Collections
 order: 20
 desc: You can add hooks to any Collection, several hook types are available including beforeChange, afterRead, afterDelete and more.
-keywords: hooks, collections, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: hooks, collections, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Collections feature the ability to define the following hooks:
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Additionally, `auth`-enabled collections feature the following hooks:
 - [afterRefresh](#afterrefresh)
 - [afterMe](#afterme)
 - [afterForgotPassword](#afterforgotpassword)
+- [refresh](#refresh)
+- [me](#me)
 
 ## Config
 
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ All collection Hook properties accept arrays of synchronous or asynchronous func
 `collections/exampleHooks.js`
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload';
 
 export const ExampleHooks: CollectionConfig = {
   slug: 'example-hooks',
@@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ export const ExampleHooks: CollectionConfig = {
     afterRefresh: [(args) => {...}],
     afterMe: [(args) => {...}],
     afterForgotPassword: [(args) => {...}],
+    refresh: [(args) => {...}],
+    me: [(args) => {...}],
   },
 }
 ```
@@ -70,12 +74,12 @@ The `beforeOperation` hook can be used to modify the arguments that operations a
 Available Collection operations include `create`, `read`, `update`, `delete`, `login`, `refresh`, and `forgotPassword`.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeOperationHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionBeforeOperationHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeOperationHook: CollectionBeforeOperationHook = async ({
   args, // original arguments passed into the operation
   operation, // name of the operation
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
 }) => {
   return args // return modified operation arguments as necessary
 }
@@ -92,11 +96,11 @@ Please do note that this does not run before the client-side validation. If you
 3. `validate` runs on the server
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeValidateHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionBeforeValidateHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeValidateHook: CollectionBeforeValidateHook = async ({
   data, // incoming data to update or create with
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   operation, // name of the operation ie. 'create', 'update'
   originalDoc, // original document
 }) => {
@@ -109,11 +113,11 @@ const beforeValidateHook: CollectionBeforeValidateHook = async ({
 Immediately following validation, `beforeChange` hooks will run within `create` and `update` operations. At this stage, you can be confident that the data that will be saved to the document is valid in accordance to your field validations. You can optionally modify the shape of data to be saved.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeChangeHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionBeforeChangeHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeChangeHook: CollectionBeforeChangeHook = async ({
   data, // incoming data to update or create with
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   operation, // name of the operation ie. 'create', 'update'
   originalDoc, // original document
 }) => {
@@ -126,11 +130,11 @@ const beforeChangeHook: CollectionBeforeChangeHook = async ({
 After a document is created or updated, the `afterChange` hook runs. This hook is helpful to recalculate statistics such as total sales within a global, syncing user profile changes to a CRM, and more.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterChangeHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionAfterChangeHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterChangeHook: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   previousDoc, // document data before updating the collection
   operation, // name of the operation ie. 'create', 'update'
 }) => {
@@ -143,11 +147,11 @@ const afterChangeHook: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async ({
 Runs before `find` and `findByID` operations are transformed for output by `afterRead`. This hook fires before hidden fields are removed and before localized fields are flattened into the requested locale. Using this Hook will provide you with all locales and all hidden fields via the `doc` argument.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeReadHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionBeforeReadHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeReadHook: CollectionBeforeReadHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   query, // JSON formatted query
 }) => {
   return doc
@@ -159,11 +163,11 @@ const beforeReadHook: CollectionBeforeReadHook = async ({
 Runs as the last step before documents are returned. Flattens locales, hides protected fields, and removes fields that users do not have access to.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterReadHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionAfterReadHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterReadHook: CollectionAfterReadHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   query, // JSON formatted query
   findMany, // boolean to denote if this hook is running against finding one, or finding many
 }) => {
@@ -176,10 +180,10 @@ const afterReadHook: CollectionAfterReadHook = async ({
 Runs before the `delete` operation. Returned values are discarded.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeDeleteHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionBeforeDeleteHook } from 'payload';
 
 const beforeDeleteHook: CollectionBeforeDeleteHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   id, // id of document to delete
 }) => {...}
 ```
@@ -189,10 +193,10 @@ const beforeDeleteHook: CollectionBeforeDeleteHook = async ({
 Runs immediately after the `delete` operation removes records from the database. Returned values are discarded.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterDeleteHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionAfterDeleteHook } from 'payload';
 
 const afterDeleteHook: CollectionAfterDeleteHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   id, // id of document to delete
   doc, // deleted document
 }) => {...}
@@ -205,12 +209,12 @@ The `afterOperation` hook can be used to modify the result of operations or exec
 Available Collection operations include `create`, `find`, `findByID`, `update`, `updateByID`, `delete`, `deleteByID`, `login`, `refresh`, and `forgotPassword`.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterOperationHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionAfterOperationHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterOperationHook: CollectionAfterOperationHook = async ({
   args, // arguments passed into the operation
   operation, // name of the operation
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   result, // the result of the operation, before modifications
 }) => {
   return result // return modified result as necessary
@@ -222,10 +226,10 @@ const afterOperationHook: CollectionAfterOperationHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs during `login` operations where a user with the provided credentials exist, but before a token is generated and added to the response. You can optionally modify the user that is returned, or throw an error in order to deny the login operation.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionBeforeLoginHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionBeforeLoginHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeLoginHook: CollectionBeforeLoginHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   user, // user being logged in
 }) => {
   return user
@@ -237,10 +241,10 @@ const beforeLoginHook: CollectionBeforeLoginHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs after successful `login` operations. You can optionally modify the user that is returned.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterLoginHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionAfterLoginHook } from 'payload';
 
 const afterLoginHook: CollectionAfterLoginHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   user, // user that was logged in
   token, // user token
 }) => {...}
@@ -251,10 +255,10 @@ const afterLoginHook: CollectionAfterLoginHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs after `logout` operations.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterLogoutHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionAfterLogoutHook } from 'payload';
 
 const afterLogoutHook: CollectionAfterLogoutHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
 }) => {...}
 ```
 
@@ -263,11 +267,11 @@ const afterLogoutHook: CollectionAfterLogoutHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs after `refresh` operations.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterRefreshHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionAfterRefreshHook } from 'payload';
 
 const afterRefreshHook: CollectionAfterRefreshHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
-  res, // full express response
+  req, // full Request object
+  res, // full Response object
   token, // newly refreshed user token
 }) => {...}
 ```
@@ -277,10 +281,10 @@ const afterRefreshHook: CollectionAfterRefreshHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs after `me` operations.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterMeHook } from 'payload/types';
+import type { CollectionAfterMeHook } from 'payload';
 
 const afterMeHook: CollectionAfterMeHook = async ({
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   response, // response to return
 }) => {...}
 ```
@@ -290,7 +294,7 @@ const afterMeHook: CollectionAfterMeHook = async ({
 For auth-enabled Collections, this hook runs after successful `forgotPassword` operations. Returned values are discarded.
 
 ```ts
-import { CollectionAfterForgotPasswordHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { CollectionAfterForgotPasswordHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterForgotPasswordHook: CollectionAfterForgotPasswordHook = async ({
   args, // arguments passed into the operation
@@ -299,6 +303,32 @@ const afterForgotPasswordHook: CollectionAfterForgotPasswordHook = async ({
 }) => {...}
 ```
 
+### refresh
+
+For auth-enabled Collections, this hook allows you to optionally replace the default behavior of the `refresh` operation with your own. If you optionally return a value from your hook, the operation will not perform its own logic and continue.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionRefreshHook } from 'payload'
+
+const myRefreshHook: CollectionRefreshHook = async ({
+  args, // arguments passed into the `refresh` operation
+  user, // the user as queried from the database 
+}) => {...}
+```
+
+### me
+
+For auth-enabled Collections, this hook allows you to optionally replace the default behavior of the `me` operation with your own. If you optionally return a value from your hook, the operation will not perform its own logic and continue.
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionMeHook } from 'payload'
+
+const meHook: CollectionMeHook = async ({
+  args, // arguments passed into the `me` operation
+  user, // the user as queried from the database 
+}) => {...}
+```
+
 ## TypeScript
 
 Payload exports a type for each Collection hook which can be accessed as follows:
@@ -319,5 +349,7 @@ import type {
   CollectionAfterRefreshHook,
   CollectionAfterMeHook,
   CollectionAfterForgotPasswordHook,
-} from 'payload/types'
+  CollectionRefreshHook,
+  CollectionMeHook,
+} from 'payload'
 ```

docs/hooks/fields.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Field Hooks
 label: Fields
 order: 30
 desc: Hooks can be added to any fields, and optionally modify the return value of the field before the operation continues.
-keywords: hooks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: hooks, fields, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Field-level hooks offer incredible potential for encapsulating your logic. They help to isolate concerns and package up
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ functionalities to be easily reusable across your projects.
 Example field configuration:
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types';
+import type { Field } from 'payload';
 
 const ExampleField: Field = {
   name: 'name',
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Field Hooks receive one `args` argument that contains the following properties:
 | **`originalDoc`**        | The full original document in `update` operations. In the `afterChange` hook, this is the resulting document of the operation.                                                                                        |
 | **`previousDoc`**        | The document before changes were applied, only in `afterChange` hooks.                                                                                                                                                |
 | **`previousSiblingDoc`** | The sibling data of the document before changes being applied, only in `beforeChange` and `afterChange` hook.                                                                                                         |
-| **`req`**                | The Express `request` object. It is mocked for Local API operations.                                                                                                                                                  |
+| **`req`**                | The [Request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request) object. It is mocked for Local API operations.                                                                                                                                                  |
 | **`value`**              | The value of the field.                                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | **`previousValue`**      | The previous value of the field, before changes, only in `beforeChange` and `afterChange` hooks.                                                                                                                      |
 | **`context`**            | Context passed to this hook. More info can be found under [Context](/docs/hooks/context)                                                                                                                              |
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Runs before the `update` operation. This hook allows you to pre-process or forma
 validation.
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types'
+import type { Field } from 'payload'
 
 const usernameField: Field = {
   name: 'username',
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ you can be confident that the field data that will be saved to the document is v
 validations.
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types'
+import type { Field } from 'payload'
 
 const emailField: Field = {
   name: 'email',
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ The `afterChange` hook is executed after a field's value has been changed and sa
 for post-processing or triggering side effects based on the new value of the field.
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types'
+import type { Field } from 'payload'
 
 const membershipStatusField: Field = {
   name: 'membershipStatus',
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ The `afterRead` hook is invoked after a field value is read from the database. T
 transforming the field data for output.
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types'
+import type { Field } from 'payload'
 
 const dateField: Field = {
   name: 'createdAt',
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ By Default, unique and required text fields Payload will append "- Copy" to the
 Here is an example of a number field with a hook that increments the number to avoid unique constraint errors when duplicating a document:
 
 ```ts
-import { Field } from 'payload/types'
+import type { Field } from 'payload'
 
 const numberField: Field = {
   name: 'number',
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ const numberField: Field = {
 Payload exports a type for field hooks which can be accessed and used as follows:
 
 ```ts
-import type { FieldHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { FieldHook } from 'payload'
 
 // Field hook type is a generic that takes three arguments:
 // 1: The document type

docs/hooks/globals.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Global Hooks
 label: Globals
 order: 40
 desc: Hooks can be added to any Global and allow you to validate data, flatten locales, hide protected fields, remove fields and more.
-keywords: hooks, globals, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: hooks, globals, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 Globals feature the ability to define the following hooks:
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ All Global Hook properties accept arrays of synchronous or asynchronous function
 `globals/example-hooks.js`
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalConfig } from 'payload/types';
+import type { GlobalConfig } from 'payload';
 
 const ExampleHooks: GlobalConfig = {
   slug: 'header',
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ const ExampleHooks: GlobalConfig = {
 Runs before the `update` operation. This hook allows you to add or format data before the incoming data is validated.
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalBeforeValidateHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { GlobalBeforeValidateHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeValidateHook: GlobalBeforeValidateHook = async ({
   data, // incoming data to update or create with
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   originalDoc, // original document
 }) => {
   return data // Return data to update the document with
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ const beforeValidateHook: GlobalBeforeValidateHook = async ({
 Immediately following validation, `beforeChange` hooks will run within the `update` operation. At this stage, you can be confident that the data that will be saved to the document is valid in accordance to your field validations. You can optionally modify the shape of data to be saved.
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalBeforeChangeHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { GlobalBeforeChangeHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeChangeHook: GlobalBeforeChangeHook = async ({
   data, // incoming data to update or create with
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   originalDoc, // original document
 }) => {
   return data // Return data to update the document with
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ const beforeChangeHook: GlobalBeforeChangeHook = async ({
 After a global is updated, the `afterChange` hook runs. Use this hook to purge caches of your applications, sync site data to CRMs, and more.
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalAfterChangeHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { GlobalAfterChangeHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterChangeHook: GlobalAfterChangeHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
   previousDoc, // document data before updating the collection
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
 }) => {
   return data
 }
@@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ const afterChangeHook: GlobalAfterChangeHook = async ({
 Runs before `findOne` global operation is transformed for output by `afterRead`. This hook fires before hidden fields are removed and before localized fields are flattened into the requested locale. Using this Hook will provide you with all locales and all hidden fields via the `doc` argument.
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalBeforeReadHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { GlobalBeforeReadHook } from 'payload'
 
 const beforeReadHook: GlobalBeforeReadHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
 }) => {...}
 ```
 
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ const beforeReadHook: GlobalBeforeReadHook = async ({
 Runs as the last step before a global is returned. Flattens locales, hides protected fields, and removes fields that users do not have access to.
 
 ```ts
-import { GlobalAfterReadHook } from 'payload/types'
+import type { GlobalAfterReadHook } from 'payload'
 
 const afterReadHook: GlobalAfterReadHook = async ({
   doc, // full document data
-  req, // full express request
+  req, // full Request object
   findMany, // boolean to denote if this hook is running against finding one, or finding many (useful in versions)
 }) => {...}
 ```
@@ -124,5 +124,5 @@ import type {
   GlobalAfterChangeHook,
   GlobalBeforeReadHook,
   GlobalAfterReadHook,
-} from 'payload/types'
+} from 'payload'
 ```

docs/hooks/overview.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Hooks Overview
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: Hooks allow you to add your own logic to Payload, including integrating with third-party APIs, adding auto-generated data, or modifing Payload's base functionality.
-keywords: hooks, overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: hooks, overview, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
 <Banner type="info">
@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ Example uses:
 
 There are many more use cases for Hooks and the sky is the limit.
 
-#### Async vs. synchronous
+## Async vs. synchronous
 
 All hooks can be written as either synchronous or asynchronous functions. If the Hook should modify data before a document is updated or created, and it relies on asynchronous actions such as fetching data from a third party, it might make sense to define your Hook as an asynchronous function, so you can be sure that your Hook completes before the operation's lifecycle continues. Async hooks are run in series - so if you have two async hooks defined, the second hook will wait for the first to complete before it starts.
 
 If your Hook simply performs a side-effect, such as updating a CRM, it might be okay to define it synchronously, so the Payload operation does not have to wait for your hook to complete.
 
-#### Server-only execution
+## Server-only execution
 
-Payload Hooks are only triggered on the server. You can safely [remove your hooks](/docs/admin/webpack#aliasing-server-only-modules) from your Admin panel's client-side code by customizing the Webpack config, which not only keeps your Admin bundles' filesize small but also ensures that any server-side only code does not cause problems within browser environments.
+Payload Hooks are only triggered on the server and are automatically excluded from the Payload Admin bundle.
 
 ## Hook Types
 

docs/integrations/vercel-content-link.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+---
+title: Vercel Content Link
+label: Vercel Content Link
+order: 10
+desc: Payload + Vercel Content Link allows yours editors to navigate directly from the content rendered on your front-end to the fields in Payload that control it.
+keywords: vercel, vercel content link, content link, visual editing, content source maps, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
+---
+
+[Vercel Content Link](https://vercel.com/docs/workflow-collaboration/edit-mode#content-link) will allow your editors to navigate directly from the content rendered on your front-end to the fields in Payload that control it. This requires no changes to your front-end code and very few changes to your Payload config.
+
+![Versions](/images/docs/vercel-visual-editing.jpg)
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  Vercel Content Link is an enterprise-only feature and only available for deployments hosted on
+  Vercel. If you are an existing enterprise customer, [contact our sales
+  team](https://payloadcms.com/for-enterprise) for help with your integration.
+</Banner>
+
+## How it works
+
+To power Vercel Content Link, Payload embeds Content Source Maps into its API responses. Content Source Maps are invisible, encoded JSON values that include a link back to the field in the CMS that generated the content. When rendered on the page, Vercel detects and decodes these values to display the Content Link interface.
+
+For full details on how the encoding and decoding algorithm works, check out [`@vercel/stega`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/stega).
+
+## Getting Started
+
+Setting up Payload with Vercel Content Link is easy. First, install the `@payloadcms/plugin-csm` plugin into your project. This plugin requires an API key to install, [contact our sales team](https://payloadcms.com/for-enterprise) if you don't already have one.
+
+```bash
+npm i @payloadcms/plugin-csm
+```
+
+Then in the `plugins` array of your Payload config, call the plugin and enable any collections that require Content Source Maps.
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from "payload/config"
+import contentSourceMaps from "@payloadcms/plugin-csm"
+
+const config = buildConfig({
+  collections: [
+    {
+      slug: "pages",
+      fields: [
+        {
+          name: 'slug',
+          type: 'text',
+        },
+        {
+          name: 'title,'
+          type: 'text',
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+  ],
+  plugins: [
+    contentSourceMaps({
+      collections: ["pages"],
+    }),
+  ],
+})
+
+export default config
+```
+
+Now in your Next.js app, include the `?encodeSourceMaps=true` parameter in any of your API requests. For performance reasons, this should only be done when in draft mode or on preview deployments.
+
+```ts
+if (isDraftMode || process.env.VERCEL_ENV === 'preview') {
+  const res = await fetch(
+    `${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PAYLOAD_CMS_URL}/api/pages?where[slug][equals]=${slug}&encodeSourceMaps=true`,
+  )
+}
+```
+
+And that's it! You are now ready to enter Edit Mode and begin visually editing your content.
+
+#### Edit Mode
+
+To see Content Link on your site, you first need to visit any preview deployment on Vercel and login using the Vercel Toolbar. When Content Source Maps are detected on the page, a pencil icon will appear in the toolbar. Clicking this icon will enable Edit Mode, highlighting all editable fields on the page in blue.
+
+![Versions](/images/docs/vercel-toolbar.jpg)
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### Date Fields
+
+The plugin does not encode `date` fields by default, but for some cases like text that uses negative CSS letter-spacing, it may be necessary to split the encoded data out from the rendered text. This way you can safely use the cleaned data as expected.
+
+```ts
+import { vercelStegaSplit } from '@vercel/stega'
+const { cleaned, encoded } = vercelStegaSplit(text)
+```
+
+### Blocks and array fields
+
+All `blocks` and `array` fields by definition do not have plain text strings to encode. For this reason, they are given an additional `_encodedSourceMap` property, which you can use to enable Content Link on entire _sections_ of your site. You can then specify the editing container by adding the `data-vercel-edit-target` HTML attribute to any top-level element of your block.
+
+```ts
+<div data-vercel-edit-target>
+  <span style={{ display: "none" }}>{_encodedSourceMap}</span>
+  {children}
+</div>
+```

docs/integrations/vercel-visual-editing.mdx

@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Vercel Visual Editing
-label: Vercel Visual Editing
-order: 10
-desc: Payload + Vercel Visual Editing allows yours editors to navigate directly from the content rendered on your front-end to the fields in Payload that control it.
-keywords: vercel, vercel visual editing, visual editing, content source maps, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
----
-
-[Vercel Visual Editing](https://vercel.com/docs/workflow-collaboration/visual-editing) will allow your editors to navigate directly from the content rendered on your front-end to the fields in Payload that control it. This requires no changes to your front-end code and very few changes to your Payload config.
-
-![Versions](/images/docs/vercel-visual-editing.jpg)
-
-<Banner type="warning">
-  Vercel Visual Editing is an enterprise-only feature and only available for deployments hosted on
-  Vercel. If you are an existing enterprise customer, [contact our sales
-  team](https://payloadcms.com/for-enterprise) for help with your integration.
-</Banner>
-
-### How it works
-
-To power Vercel Visual Editing, Payload embeds Content Source Maps into its API responses. Content Source Maps are invisible, encoded JSON values that include a link back to the field in the CMS that generated the content. When rendered on the page, Vercel detects and decodes these values to display the Visual Editing interface.
-
-For full details on how the encoding and decoding algorithm works, check out [`@vercel/stega`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/stega).
-
-### Getting Started
-
-Setting up Payload with Vercel Visual Editing is easy. First, install the `@payloadcms/plugin-csm` plugin into your project. This plugin requires an API key to install, [contact our sales team](https://payloadcms.com/for-enterprise) if you don't already have one.
-
-```bash
-npm i @payloadcms/plugin-csm
-```
-
-Then in the `plugins` array of your Payload config, call the plugin and enable any collections that require Content Source Maps.
-
-```ts
-import { buildConfig } from "payload/config"
-import contentSourceMaps from "@payloadcms/plugin-csm"
-
-const config = buildConfig({
-  collections: [
-    {
-      slug: "pages",
-      fields: [
-        {
-          name: 'slug',
-          type: 'text',
-        },
-        {
-          name: 'title,'
-          type: 'text',
-        },
-      ],
-    },
-  ],
-  plugins: [
-    contentSourceMaps({
-      collections: ["pages"],
-    }),
-  ],
-})
-
-export default config
-```
-
-Now in your Next.js app, include the `?encodeSourceMaps=true` parameter in any of your API requests. For performance reasons, this should only be done when in draft mode or on preview deployments.
-
-```ts
-if (isDraftMode || process.env.VERCEL_ENV === 'preview') {
-  const res = await fetch(
-    `${process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PAYLOAD_CMS_URL}/api/pages?where[slug][equals]=${slug}&encodeSourceMaps=true`,
-  )
-}
-```
-
-And that's it! You are now ready to enter Edit Mode and begin visually editing your content.
-
-##### Edit Mode
-
-To see Visual Editing on your site, you first need to visit any preview deployment on Vercel and login using the Vercel Toolbar. When Content Source Maps are detected on the page, a pencil icon will appear in the toolbar. Clicking this icon will enable Edit Mode, highlighting all editable fields on the page in blue.
-
-![Versions](/images/docs/vercel-toolbar.jpg)
-
-### Troubleshooting
-
-##### Dates
-
-The plugin does not encode `date` fields by default, but for some cases like text that uses negative CSS letter-spacing, it may be necessary to split the encoded data out from the rendered text. This way you can safely use the cleaned data as expected.
-
-```ts
-import { vercelStegaSplit } from '@vercel/stega'
-const { cleaned, encoded } = vercelStegaSplit(text)
-```
-
-##### Blocks
-
-All `blocks` fields by definition do not have plain text strings to encode. For this reason, blocks are given an additional `encodedSourceMap` key, which you can use to enable Visual Editing on entire sections of your site. You can then specify the editing container by adding the `data-vercel-edit-target` HTML attribute to any top-level element of your block.
-
-```ts
-<div data-vercel-edit-target>
-  <span style={{ display: "none" }}>{encodedSourceMap}</span>
-  {children}
-</div>
-```

docs/lexical/building-custom-features.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,824 @@
+---
+title: Lexical Building Custom Features
+label: Custom Features
+order: 40
+desc: Building custom lexical features
+keywords: lexical, rich text, editor, headless cms, feature, features
+---
+
+Before you begin building custom features for Lexical, it is crucial to familiarize yourself with the [Lexical docs](https://lexical.dev/docs/intro), particularly the "Concepts" section. This foundation is necessary for understanding Lexical's core principles, such as nodes, editor state, and commands.
+
+Lexical features are designed to be modular, meaning each piece of functionality is encapsulated within just two specific interfaces: one for server-side code and one for client-side code.
+
+By convention, these are named feature.server.ts for server-side functionality and feature.client.ts for client-side functionality. The primary functionality is housed within feature.server.ts, which users will import into their projects. The client-side feature, although defined separately, is integrated and rendered server-side through the server feature. That way, we still maintain a clear boundary between server and client code, while also centralizing the code needed for a feature in basically one place. This approach is beneficial for managing all the bits and pieces which make up your feature as a whole, such as toolbar entries, buttons, or new nodes, allowing each feature to be neatly contained and managed independently.
+
+
+## Server Feature
+
+To start building new features, you should start with the server feature, which is the entry-point.
+
+**Example myFeature/feature.server.ts:**
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+export const MyFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: {
+  },
+  key: 'myFeature',
+})
+```
+
+`createServerFeature` is a helper function which lets you create new features without boilerplate code.
+
+Now, the feature is ready to be used in the editor:
+
+```ts
+import { MyFeature } from './myFeature/feature.server';
+import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+//...
+ {
+    name: 'richText',
+    type: 'richText',
+    editor: lexicalEditor({
+      features: [
+        MyFeature(),
+      ],
+    }),
+ },
+```
+
+By default, this server feature does nothing - you haven't added any functionality yet. Depending on what you want your
+feature to do, the ServerFeature type exposes various properties you can set to inject custom functionality into the lexical editor.
+
+### i18n
+
+Each feature can register their own translations, which are automatically scoped to the feature key:
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+
+export const MyFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: {
+    i18n: {
+      en: {
+        label: 'My Feature',
+      },
+      de: {
+        label: 'Mein Feature',
+      },
+    },
+  },
+  key: 'myFeature',
+})
+```
+
+This allows you to add i18n translations scoped to your feature. This specific example translation will be available under `lexical:myFeature:label` - `myFeature` being your feature key.
+
+### Markdown Transformers
+
+The Server Feature, just like the Client Feature, allows you to add markdown transformers. Markdown transformers on the server are used when [converting the editor from or to markdown](/docs/lexical/converters#markdown-lexical).
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+import type { ElementTransformer } from '@lexical/markdown'
+import {
+  $createMyNode,
+  $isMyNode,
+  MyNode
+} from './nodes/MyNode'
+
+const MyMarkdownTransformer: ElementTransformer = {
+  type: 'element',
+  dependencies: [MyNode],
+  export: (node, exportChildren) => {
+    if (!$isMyNode(node)) {
+      return null
+    }
+    return '+++'
+  },
+  // match ---
+  regExp: /^+++\s*$/,
+  replace: (parentNode) => {
+    const node = $createMyNode()
+    if (node) {
+      parentNode.replace(node)
+    }
+  },
+}
+
+
+export const MyFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: {
+    markdownTransformers: [MyMarkdownTransformer],
+  },
+  key: 'myFeature',
+})
+```
+
+In this example, the node will be outputted as `+++` in Markdown, and the markdown `+++` will be converted to a `MyNode` node in the editor.
+
+### Nodes
+
+While nodes added to the server feature do not control how the node is rendered in the editor, they control other aspects of the node:
+- HTML conversion
+- Node Hooks
+- Sub fields
+- Behavior in a headless editor
+
+The `createNode` helper function is used to create nodes with proper typing. It is recommended to use this function to create nodes.
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature, createNode } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+import {
+  MyNode
+} from './nodes/MyNode'
+
+export const MyFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: {
+
+    nodes: [
+      // Use the createNode helper function to more easily create nodes with proper typing
+      createNode({
+        converters: {
+          html: {
+            converter: () => {
+              return `<hr/>`
+            },
+            nodeTypes: [MyNode.getType()],
+          },
+        },
+        // Here you can add your actual node. On the server, they will be
+        // used to initialize a headless editor which can be used to perform
+        // operations on the editor, like markdown / html conversion.
+        node: MyNode,
+      }),
+    ],
+  },
+  key: 'myFeature',
+})
+```
+
+While nodes in the client feature are added by themselves to the nodes array, nodes in the server feature can be added together with the following sibling options:
+
+| Option                          | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`getSubFields`**              | If a node includes sub-fields (e.g. block and link nodes), passing the subFields schema here will make payload automatically populate & run hooks for them.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| **`getSubFieldsData`**          | If a node includes sub-fields, the sub-fields data needs to be returned here, alongside `getSubFields` which returns their schema.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+| **`graphQLPopulationPromises`** | Allows you to run population logic when a node's data was requested from GraphQL. While `getSubFields` and `getSubFieldsData` automatically handle populating sub-fields (since they run hooks on them), those are only populated in the Rest API. This is because the Rest API hooks do not have access to the 'depth' property provided by GraphQL. In order for them to be populated correctly in GraphQL, the population logic needs to be provided here. |
+| **`node`**                      | The actual lexical node needs to be provided here. This also supports [lexical node replacements](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/node-replacement).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| **`validations`**               | This allows you to provide node validations, which are run when your document is being validated, alongside other payload fields. You can use it to throw a validation error for a specific node in case its data is incorrect.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| **`converters`**                | Allows you to define how a node can be serialized into different formats. Currently, only supports HTML. Markdown converters are defined in `markdownTransformers` and not here.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
+| **`hooks`**                     | Just like payload fields, you can provide hooks which are run for this specific node. These are called Node Hooks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+
+### Feature load order
+
+Server features can also accept a function as the `feature` property (useful for sanitizing props, as mentioned below). This function will be called when the feature is loaded during the payload sanitization process:
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+createServerFeature({
+  //...
+  feature: async ({ config, isRoot, props, resolvedFeatures, unSanitizedEditorConfig, featureProviderMap }) => {
+
+    return {
+      //Actual server feature here...
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
+"Loading" here means the process of calling this `feature` function. By default, features are called in the order in which they are added to the editor.
+However, sometimes you might want to load a feature after another feature has been loaded, or require a different feature to be loaded, throwing an error if this is not the case.
+
+Within lexical, one example where this is done are our list features. Both `UnorderedListFeature` and `OrderedListFeature` register the same `ListItem` node. Within `UnorderedListFeature` we register it normally, but within `OrderedListFeature` we want to only register the `ListItem` node if the `UnorderedListFeature` is not present - otherwise, we would have two features registering the same node.
+
+Here is how we do it:
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature, createNode } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+export const OrderedListFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: ({ featureProviderMap }) => {
+    return {
+      // ...
+      nodes: featureProviderMap.has('unorderedList')
+        ? []
+        : [
+            createNode({
+              // ...
+            }),
+          ],
+    }
+  },
+  key: 'orderedList',
+})
+```
+
+`featureProviderMap` will always be available and contain all the features, even yet-to-be-loaded ones, so we can check if a feature is loaded by checking if its `key` present in the map.
+
+If you wanted to make sure a feature is loaded before another feature, you can use the `dependenciesPriority` property:
+
+```ts
+import { createServerFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical';
+
+export const MyFeature = createServerFeature({
+  feature: ({ featureProviderMap }) => {
+    return {
+      // ...
+    }
+  },
+  key: 'myFeature',
+  dependenciesPriority: ['otherFeature'],
+})
+```
+
+| Option                     | Description                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`dependenciesSoft`**     | Keys of soft-dependencies needed for this feature. These are optional. Payload will attempt to load them before this feature, but doesn't throw an error if that's not possible.                          |
+| **`dependencies`**         | Keys of dependencies needed for this feature. These dependencies do not have to be loaded first, but they have to exist, otherwise an error will be thrown.                                               |
+| **`dependenciesPriority`** | Keys of priority dependencies needed for this feature. These dependencies have to be loaded first AND have to exist, otherwise an error will be thrown. They will be available in the `feature` property. |
+
+## Client Feature
+
+Most of the functionality which the user actually sees and interacts with, like toolbar items and React components for nodes, resides on the client-side.
+
+To set up your client-side feature, follow these three steps:
+
+1. **Create a Separate File**: Start by creating a new file specifically for your client feature, such as `myFeature/feature.client.ts`. It's important to keep client and server features in separate files to maintain a clean boundary between server and client code.
+2. **'use client'**: Mark that file with a 'use client' directive at the top of the file
+3. **Register the Client Feature**: Register the client feature within your server feature, by passing it to the `ClientFeature` prop. This is needed because the server feature is the sole entry-point of your feature. This also means you are not able to create a client feature without a server feature, as you will not be able to register it otherwise.
+
+**Example myFeature/feature.client.ts:**
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+
+import { createClientFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+
+export const MyClientFeature = createClientFeature({
+
+})
+```
+
+Explore the APIs available through ClientFeature to add the specific functionality you need. Remember, do not import directly from `'@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'` when working on the client-side, as it will cause errors with webpack or turbopack. Instead, use `'@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client'` for all client-side imports. Type-imports are excluded from this rule and can always be imported.
+
+### Nodes
+
+Add nodes to the `nodes` array in **both** your client & server feature. On the server side, nodes are utilized for backend operations like HTML conversion in a headless editor. On the client side, these nodes are integral to how content is displayed and managed in the editor, influencing how they are rendered, behave, and saved in the database.
+
+Example:
+
+**myFeature/feature.client.ts:**
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+
+import { createClientFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+import { MyNode } from './nodes/MyNode';
+
+export const MyClientFeature = createClientFeature({
+  nodes: [MyNode]
+})
+```
+
+This also supports [lexical node replacements](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/node-replacement).
+
+**myFeature/nodes/MyNode.tsx:**
+
+Here is a basic DecoratorNode example:
+
+```ts
+import type {
+  DOMConversionMap,
+  DOMConversionOutput,
+  DOMExportOutput,
+  EditorConfig,
+  LexicalNode,
+  SerializedLexicalNode,
+} from 'lexical'
+
+import { $applyNodeReplacement, DecoratorNode } from 'lexical'
+
+// SerializedLexicalNode is the default lexical node.
+// By setting your SerializedMyNode type to SerializedLexicalNode,
+// you are basically saying that this node does not save any additional data.
+// If you want your node to save data, feel free to extend it
+export type SerializedMyNode = SerializedLexicalNode
+
+// Lazy-import the React component to your node here
+const MyNodeComponent = React.lazy(() =>
+  import('../component/index.js').then((module) => ({
+    default: module.MyNodeComponent,
+  })),
+)
+
+/**
+ * This node is a DecoratorNode. DecoratorNodes allow you to render React components in the editor.
+ *
+ * They need both createDom and decorate functions. createDom => outside of the html. decorate => React Component inside of the html.
+ *
+ * If we used DecoratorBlockNode instead, we would only need a decorate method
+ */
+export class MyNode extends DecoratorNode<React.ReactElement> {
+  static clone(node: MyNode): MyNode {
+    return new MyNode(node.__key)
+  }
+
+  static getType(): string {
+    return 'myNode'
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Defines what happens if you copy a div element from another page and paste it into the lexical editor
+   *
+   * This also determines the behavior of lexical's internal HTML -> Lexical converter
+   */
+  static importDOM(): DOMConversionMap | null {
+    return {
+      div: () => ({
+        conversion: $yourConversionMethod,
+        priority: 0,
+      }),
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The data for this node is stored serialized as JSON. This is the "load function" of that node: it takes the saved data and converts it into a node.
+   */
+  static importJSON(serializedNode: SerializedMyNode): MyNode {
+    return $createMyNode()
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Determines how the hr element is rendered in the lexical editor. This is only the "initial" / "outer" HTML element.
+   */
+  createDOM(config: EditorConfig): HTMLElement {
+    const element = document.createElement('div')
+    return element
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Allows you to render a React component within whatever createDOM returns.
+   */
+  decorate(): React.ReactElement {
+    return <MyNodeComponent nodeKey={this.__key} />
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Opposite of importDOM, this function defines what happens when you copy a div element from the lexical editor and paste it into another page.
+   *
+   * This also determines the behavior of lexical's internal Lexical -> HTML converter
+   */
+  exportDOM(): DOMExportOutput {
+    return { element: document.createElement('div') }
+  }
+  /**
+   * Opposite of importJSON. This determines what data is saved in the database / in the lexical editor state.
+   */
+  exportJSON(): SerializedLexicalNode {
+    return {
+      type: 'myNode',
+      version: 1,
+    }
+  }
+
+  getTextContent(): string {
+    return '\n'
+  }
+
+  isInline(): false {
+    return false
+  }
+
+  updateDOM(): boolean {
+    return false
+  }
+}
+
+// This is used in the importDOM method. Totally optional if you do not want your node to be created automatically when copy & pasting certain dom elements
+// into your editor.
+function $yourConversionMethod(): DOMConversionOutput {
+  return { node: $createMyNode() }
+}
+
+// This is a utility method to create a new MyNode. Utility methods prefixed with $ make it explicit that this should only be used within lexical
+export function $createMyNode(): MyNode {
+  return $applyNodeReplacement(new MyNode())
+}
+
+// This is just a utility method you can use to check if a node is a MyNode. This also ensures correct typing.
+export function $isMyNode(
+  node: LexicalNode | null | undefined,
+): node is MyNode {
+  return node instanceof MyNode
+}
+```
+
+Please do not add any 'use client' directives to your nodes, as the node class can be used on the server.
+
+### Plugins
+
+One small part of a feature are plugins. The name stems from the lexical playground plugins and is just a small part of a lexical feature.
+Plugins are simply React components which are added to the editor, within all the lexical context providers. They can be used to add any functionality
+to the editor, by utilizing the lexical API.
+
+Most commonly, they are used to register [lexical listeners](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/listeners), [node transforms](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/transforms) or [commands](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/commands).
+For example, you could add a drawer to your plugin and register a command which opens it. That command can then be called from anywhere within lexical, e.g. from within your custom lexical node.
+
+To add a plugin, simply add it to the `plugins` array in your client feature:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+
+import { createClientFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+import { MyPlugin } from './plugin';
+
+export const MyClientFeature = createClientFeature({
+  plugins: [MyPlugin]
+})
+```
+
+Example plugin.tsx:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+import type {
+  LexicalCommand,
+} from 'lexical'
+
+import {
+  createCommand,
+  $getSelection,
+  $isRangeSelection,
+  COMMAND_PRIORITY_EDITOR
+} from 'lexical'
+
+import { useLexicalComposerContext } from '@lexical/react/LexicalComposerContext.js'
+import { $insertNodeToNearestRoot } from '@lexical/utils'
+import { useEffect } from 'react'
+
+import type { PluginComponent } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical' // type imports can be imported from @payloadcms/richtext-lexical - even on the client
+
+import {
+  $createMyNode,
+} from '../nodes/MyNode'
+import './index.scss'
+
+export const INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND: LexicalCommand<void> = createCommand(
+  'INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND',
+)
+
+/**
+ * Plugin which registers a lexical command to insert a new MyNode into the editor
+ */
+export const MyNodePlugin: PluginComponent= () => {
+  // The useLexicalComposerContext hook can be used to access the lexical editor instance
+  const [editor] = useLexicalComposerContext()
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    return editor.registerCommand(
+      INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND,
+      (type) => {
+        const selection = $getSelection()
+
+        if (!$isRangeSelection(selection)) {
+          return false
+        }
+
+        const focusNode = selection.focus.getNode()
+
+        if (focusNode !== null) {
+          const newMyNode = $createMyNode()
+          $insertNodeToNearestRoot(newMyNode)
+        }
+
+        return true
+      },
+      COMMAND_PRIORITY_EDITOR,
+    )
+  }, [editor])
+
+  return null
+}
+```
+
+In this example, we register a lexical command, which simply inserts a new MyNode into the editor. This command can be called from anywhere within lexical, e.g. from within a custom node.
+
+### Toolbar groups
+
+Toolbar groups are visual containers which hold toolbar items. There are different toolbar group types which determine *how* a toolbar item is displayed: `dropdown` and `buttons`.
+
+All the default toolbar groups are exported from `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client`. You can use them to add your own toolbar items to the editor:
+- Dropdown: `toolbarAddDropdownGroupWithItems`
+- Dropdown: `toolbarTextDropdownGroupWithItems`
+- Buttons: `toolbarFormatGroupWithItems`
+- Buttons: `toolbarFeatureButtonsGroupWithItems`
+
+Within dropdown groups, items are positioned vertically when the dropdown is opened and include the icon & label. Within button groups, items are positioned horizontally and only include the icon. If a toolbar group with the same key is declared twice, all its items will be merged into one group.
+
+#### Custom buttons toolbar group
+
+| Option      | Description                                                                                                                                            |
+|-------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`items`** | All toolbar items part of this toolbar group need to be added here.                                                                                    |
+| **`key`**   | Each toolbar group needs to have a unique key. Groups with the same keys will have their items merged together.                                        |
+| **`order`** | Determines where the toolbar group will be.                                                                                                            |
+| **`type`**  | Controls the toolbar group type. Set to `buttons` to create a buttons toolbar group, which displays toolbar items horizontally using only their icons. |
+
+Example:
+```ts
+import type { ToolbarGroup, ToolbarGroupItem } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export const toolbarFormatGroupWithItems = (items: ToolbarGroupItem[]): ToolbarGroup => {
+  return {
+    type: 'buttons',
+    items,
+    key: 'myButtonsToolbar',
+    order: 10,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+#### Custom dropdown toolbar group
+
+| Option               | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
+|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`items`**          | All toolbar items part of this toolbar group need to be added here.                                                                                                                  |
+| **`key`**            | Each toolbar group needs to have a unique key. Groups with the same keys will have their items merged together.                                                                      |
+| **`order`**          | Determines where the toolbar group will be.                                                                                                                                          |
+| **`type`**           | Controls the toolbar group type. Set to `dropdown` to create a buttons toolbar group, which displays toolbar items vertically using their icons and labels, if the dropdown is open. |
+| **`ChildComponent`** | The dropdown toolbar ChildComponent allows you to pass in a React Component which will be displayed within the dropdown button.                                                      |
+
+Example:
+```ts
+import type { ToolbarGroup, ToolbarGroupItem } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+import { MyIcon } from './icons/MyIcon'
+
+export const toolbarAddDropdownGroupWithItems = (items: ToolbarGroupItem[]): ToolbarGroup => {
+  return {
+    type: 'dropdown',
+    ChildComponent: MyIcon,
+    items,
+    key: 'myDropdownToolbar',
+    order: 10,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### Toolbar items
+
+Custom nodes and features on its own are pointless, if they can't be added to the editor. You will need to hook in one of our interfaces which allow the user to interact with the editor:
+
+- Fixed toolbar which stays fixed at the top of the editor
+- Inline, floating toolbar which appears when selecting text
+- Slash menu which appears when typing `/` in the editor
+- Markdown transformers, which are triggered when a certain text pattern is typed in the editor
+- Or any other interfaces which can be added via your own plugins. Our toolbars are a prime example of this - they are just plugins.
+
+To add a toolbar item to either the floating or the inline toolbar, you can add a ToolbarGroup with a ToolbarItem to the `toolbarFixed` or `toolbarInline` props of your client feature:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+
+import { createClientFeature, toolbarAddDropdownGroupWithItems } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+import { IconComponent } from './icon';
+import { $isHorizontalRuleNode } from './nodes/MyNode';
+import { INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND } from './plugin';
+import { $isNodeSelection } from 'lexical'
+
+export const MyClientFeature = createClientFeature({
+   toolbarFixed: {
+    groups: [
+      toolbarAddDropdownGroupWithItems([
+        {
+          ChildComponent: IconComponent,
+          isActive: ({ selection }) => {
+            if (!$isNodeSelection(selection) || !selection.getNodes().length) {
+              return false
+            }
+
+            const firstNode = selection.getNodes()[0]
+            return $isHorizontalRuleNode(firstNode)
+          },
+          key: 'myNode',
+          label: ({ i18n }) => {
+            return i18n.t('lexical:myFeature:label')
+          },
+          onSelect: ({ editor }) => {
+            editor.dispatchCommand(INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND, undefined)
+          },
+        },
+      ]),
+    ],
+  },
+})
+```
+
+You will have to provide a toolbar group first, and then the items for that toolbar group (more on that above).
+
+A `ToolbarItem` various props you can use to customize its behavior:
+
+| Option               | Description                                                                                                                                                                                |
+|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`ChildComponent`** | A React component which is rendered within your toolbar item's default button component. Usually, you want this to be an icon.                                                             |
+| **`Component`**      | A React component which is rendered in place of the toolbar item's default button component, thus completely replacing it. The `ChildComponent` and `onSelect` properties will be ignored. |
+| **`label`**          | The label will be displayed in your toolbar item, if it's within a dropdown group. To make use of i18n, this can be a function.                                                            |
+| **`key`**            | Each toolbar item needs to have a unique key.                                                                                                                                              |
+| **`onSelect`**       | A function which is called when the toolbar item is clicked.                                                                                                                               |
+| **`isEnabled`**      | This is optional and controls if the toolbar item is clickable or not. If `false` is returned here, it will be grayed out and unclickable.                                                 |
+| **`isActive`**       | This is optional and controls if the toolbar item is highlighted or not                                                                                                                    |
+
+The API for adding an item to the floating inline toolbar (`toolbarInline`) is identical. If you wanted to add an item to both the fixed and inline toolbar, you can extract it into its own variable
+(typed as `ToolbarGroup[]`) and add it to both the `toolbarFixed` and `toolbarInline` props.
+
+### Slash Menu groups
+
+We're exporting `slashMenuBasicGroupWithItems` from `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client` which you can use to add items to the slash menu labelled "Basic". If you want to create your own slash menu group, here is an example:
+
+```ts
+import type {
+  SlashMenuGroup,
+  SlashMenuItem,
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export function mwnSlashMenuGroupWithItems(items: SlashMenuItem[]): SlashMenuGroup {
+  return {
+    items,
+    key: 'myGroup',
+    label: 'My Group' // <= This can be a function to make use of i18n
+  }
+}
+```
+
+By creating a helper function like this, you can easily re-use it and add items to it. All Slash Menu groups with the same keys will have their items merged together.
+
+| Option      | Description                                                                                                                           |
+|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`items`** | An array of `SlashMenuItem`'s which will be displayed in the slash menu.                                                              |
+| **`label`** | The label will be displayed before your Slash Menu group. In order to make use of i18n, this can be a function.                       |
+| **`key`**   | Used for class names and, if label is not provided, for display. Slash menus with the same key will have their items merged together. |
+
+
+### Slash Menu items
+
+The API for adding items to the slash menu is similar. There are slash menu groups, and each slash menu groups has items. Here is an example:
+
+```ts
+'use client'
+
+import { createClientFeature, slashMenuBasicGroupWithItems } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+import { INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND } from './plugin';
+import { IconComponent } from './icon';
+
+export const MyClientFeature = createClientFeature({
+  slashMenu: {
+    groups: [
+      slashMenuBasicGroupWithItems([
+        {
+          Icon: IconComponent,
+          key: 'myNode',
+          keywords: ['myNode', 'myFeature', 'someOtherKeyword'],
+          label: ({ i18n }) => {
+            return i18n.t('lexical:myFeature:label')
+          },
+          onSelect: ({ editor }) => {
+            editor.dispatchCommand(INSERT_MYNODE_COMMAND, undefined)
+          },
+        },
+      ]),
+    ],
+  },
+})
+```
+
+| Option         | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`Icon`**     | The icon which is rendered in your slash menu item.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| **`label`**    | The label will be displayed in your slash menu item. In order to make use of i18n, this can be a function.                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| **`key`**      | Each slash menu item needs to have a unique key. The key will be matched when typing, displayed if no `label` property is set, and used for classNames.                                                                                                                           |
+| **`onSelect`** | A function which is called when the slash menu item is selected.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
+| **`keywords`** | Keywords are used to match the item for different texts typed after the '/'. E.g. you might want to show a horizontal rule item if you type both /hr, /separator, /horizontal etc. In addition to the keywords, the label and key will be used to find the right slash menu item. |
+
+
+### Markdown Transformers
+
+The Client Feature, just like the Server Feature, allows you to add markdown transformers. Markdown transformers on the client are used to create new nodes when a certain markdown pattern is typed in the editor.
+
+```ts
+import { createClientFeature } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/client';
+import type { ElementTransformer } from '@lexical/markdown'
+import {
+  $createMyNode,
+  $isMyNode,
+  MyNode
+} from './nodes/MyNode'
+
+const MyMarkdownTransformer: ElementTransformer = {
+  type: 'element',
+  dependencies: [MyNode],
+  export: (node, exportChildren) => {
+    if (!$isMyNode(node)) {
+      return null
+    }
+    return '+++'
+  },
+  // match ---
+  regExp: /^+++\s*$/,
+  replace: (parentNode) => {
+    const node = $createMyNode()
+    if (node) {
+      parentNode.replace(node)
+    }
+  },
+}
+
+
+export const MyFeature = createClientFeature({
+  markdownTransformers: [MyMarkdownTransformer],
+})
+```
+
+In this example, a new `MyNode` will be inserted into the editor when `+++ ` is typed.
+
+## Props
+
+To accept props in your feature, type them as a generic.
+
+Server Feature:
+
+```ts
+createServerFeature<UnSanitizedProps, SanitizedProps, UnSanitizedClientProps>({
+  //...
+})
+```
+
+Client Feature:
+
+```ts
+createClientFeature<UnSanitizedClientProps, SanitizedClientProps>({
+  //...
+})
+```
+
+The unSanitized props are what the user will pass to the feature when they call its provider function and add it to their editor config. You then have an option to sanitize those props.
+To sanitize those in the server feature, you can pass a function to `feature` instead of an object:
+
+```ts
+createServerFeature<UnSanitizedProps, SanitizedProps, UnSanitizedClientProps>({
+  //...
+  feature: async ({ config, isRoot, props, resolvedFeatures, unSanitizedEditorConfig, featureProviderMap }) => {
+    const sanitizedProps = doSomethingWithProps(props)
+
+    return {
+      sanitizedServerFeatureProps: sanitizedProps,
+      //Actual server feature here...
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
+Keep in mind that any sanitized props then have to be returned in the `sanitizedServerFeatureProps` property.
+
+In the client feature, it works similarly:
+
+```ts
+createClientFeature<UnSanitizedClientProps, SanitizedClientProps>(
+  ({ clientFunctions, featureProviderMap, props, resolvedFeatures, unSanitizedEditorConfig }) => {
+    const sanitizedProps = doSomethingWithProps(props)
+    return {
+      sanitizedClientFeatureProps:  sanitizedProps,
+      //Actual client feature here...
+    }
+  },
+)
+```
+
+### Bringing props from the server to the client
+
+By default, the client feature will never receive any props from the server feature. In order to pass props from the server to the client, you can need to return those props in the server feature:
+
+```ts
+type UnSanitizedClientProps = {
+  test: string
+}
+
+createServerFeature<UnSanitizedProps, SanitizedProps, UnSanitizedClientProps>({
+  //...
+  feature: {
+    clientFeatureProps: {
+      test: 'myValue'
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
+The reason the client feature does not have the same props available as the server by default is because all client props need to be serializable. You can totally accept things like functions or Maps as props in your server feature, but you will not be able to send those to the client. In the end, those props are sent from the server to the client over the network, so they need to be serializable.
+
+## More information
+
+Have a look at the [features we've already built](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/beta/packages/richtext-lexical/src/features) - understanding how they work will help you understand how to create your own. There is no difference between the features included by default and the ones you create yourself - since those features are all isolated from the "core", you have access to the same APIs, whether the feature is part of payload or not!

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+---
+title: Lexical Converters
+label: Converters
+order: 20
+desc: Conversion between lexical, markdown and html
+keywords: lexical, rich text, editor, headless cms, convert, html, mdx, markdown, md, conversion, export
+---
+
+## Lexical => HTML
+
+Lexical saves data in JSON, but can also generate its HTML representation via two main methods:
+
+1. **Outputting HTML from the Collection:** Create a new field in your collection to convert saved JSON content to HTML. Payload generates and outputs the HTML for use in your frontend.
+2. **Generating HTML on any server** Convert JSON to HTML on-demand on the server.
+
+The editor comes with built-in HTML serializers, simplifying the process of converting JSON to HTML.
+
+### Outputting HTML from the Collection
+
+To add HTML generation directly within the collection, follow the example below:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+import { HTMLConverterFeature, lexicalEditor, lexicalHTML } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const Pages: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'pages',
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'nameOfYourRichTextField',
+      type: 'richText',
+      editor: lexicalEditor({
+        features: ({ defaultFeatures }) => [
+          ...defaultFeatures,
+          // The HTMLConverter Feature is the feature which manages the HTML serializers.
+          // If you do not pass any arguments to it, it will use the default serializers.
+          HTMLConverterFeature({}),
+        ],
+      }),
+    },
+    lexicalHTML('nameOfYourRichTextField', { name: 'nameOfYourRichTextField_html' }),
+  ],
+}
+```
+
+The `lexicalHTML()` function creates a new field that automatically converts the referenced lexical richText field into HTML through an afterRead hook.
+
+### Generating HTML anywhere on the server
+
+If you wish to convert JSON to HTML ad-hoc, use the `convertLexicalToHTML` function:
+
+```ts
+import { consolidateHTMLConverters, convertLexicalToHTML } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+
+await convertLexicalToHTML({
+  converters: consolidateHTMLConverters({ editorConfig }),
+  data: editorData,
+  payload, // if you have payload but no req available, pass it in here to enable server-only functionality (e.g. proper conversion of upload nodes)
+  req, // if you have req available, pass it in here to enable server-only functionality (e.g. proper conversion of upload nodes). No need to pass in payload if req is passed in.
+})
+```
+This method employs `convertLexicalToHTML` from `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical`, which converts the serialized editor state into HTML.
+
+Because every `Feature` is able to provide html converters, and because the `htmlFeature` can modify those or provide their own, we need to consolidate them with the default html Converters using the `consolidateHTMLConverters` function.
+
+#### Example: Generating HTML within an afterRead hook
+
+```ts
+import type { FieldHook } from 'payload'
+
+import {
+  HTMLConverterFeature,
+  consolidateHTMLConverters,
+  convertLexicalToHTML,
+  defaultEditorConfig,
+  defaultEditorFeatures,
+  sanitizeServerEditorConfig,
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const hook: FieldHook = async ({ req, siblingData }) => {
+  const editorConfig = defaultEditorConfig
+
+  editorConfig.features = [...defaultEditorFeatures, HTMLConverterFeature({})]
+
+  const sanitizedEditorConfig = await sanitizeServerEditorConfig(editorConfig, req.payload.config)
+
+  const html = await convertLexicalToHTML({
+    converters: consolidateHTMLConverters({ editorConfig: sanitizedEditorConfig }),
+    data: siblingData.lexicalSimple,
+    req,
+  })
+  return html
+}
+```
+
+### CSS
+
+Payload's lexical HTML converter does not generate CSS for you, but it does add classes to the generated HTML. You can use these classes to style the HTML in your frontend.
+
+Here is some "base" CSS you can use to ensure that nested lists render correctly:
+
+```css
+/* Base CSS for Lexical HTML */
+.nestedListItem, .list-check {
+  list-style-type: none;
+}
+```
+
+### Creating your own HTML Converter
+
+HTML Converters are typed as `HTMLConverter`, which contains the node type it should handle, and a function that accepts the serialized node from the lexical editor, and outputs the HTML string. Here's the HTML Converter of the Upload node as an example:
+
+```ts
+import type { HTMLConverter } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const UploadHTMLConverter: HTMLConverter<SerializedUploadNode> = {
+  converter: async ({ node, req }) => {
+    const uploadDocument: {
+      value?: any
+      } = {}
+    if(req) {
+      await populate({
+        id,
+        collectionSlug: node.relationTo,
+        currentDepth: 0,
+        data: uploadDocument,
+        depth: 1,
+        draft: false,
+        key: 'value',
+        overrideAccess: false,
+        req,
+        showHiddenFields: false,
+      })
+    }
+
+    const url = (req?.payload?.config?.serverURL || '') + uploadDocument?.value?.url
+
+    if (!(uploadDocument?.value?.mimeType as string)?.startsWith('image')) {
+      // Only images can be serialized as HTML
+      return ``
+    }
+
+    return `<img src="${url}" alt="${uploadDocument?.value?.filename}" width="${uploadDocument?.value?.width}"  height="${uploadDocument?.value?.height}"/>`
+  },
+  nodeTypes: [UploadNode.getType()], // This is the type of the lexical node that this converter can handle. Instead of hardcoding 'upload' we can get the node type directly from the UploadNode, since it's static.
+}
+```
+
+As you can see, we have access to all the information saved in the node (for the Upload node, this is `value`and `relationTo`) and we can use that to generate the HTML.
+
+The `convertLexicalToHTML` is part of `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical` automatically handles traversing the editor state and calling the correct converter for each node.
+
+### Embedding the HTML Converter in your Feature
+
+You can embed your HTML Converter directly within your custom `ServerFeature`, allowing it to be handled automatically by the `consolidateHTMLConverters` function. Here is an example:
+
+```ts
+import { createNode } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+import type { FeatureProviderProviderServer } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export const UploadFeature: FeatureProviderProviderServer<
+  UploadFeatureProps,
+  UploadFeaturePropsClient
+> = (props) => {
+  /*...*/
+  return {
+    feature: () => {
+      return {
+        nodes: [
+          createNode({
+            converters: {
+              html: yourHTMLConverter, // <= This is where you define your HTML Converter
+            },
+            node: UploadNode,
+            //...
+          }),
+        ],
+        ClientComponent: UploadFeatureClientComponent,
+        clientFeatureProps: clientProps,
+        serverFeatureProps: props,
+        /*...*/
+      }
+    },
+    key: 'upload',
+    serverFeatureProps: props,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Headless Editor
+
+Lexical provides a seamless way to perform conversions between various other formats:
+
+- HTML to Lexical (or, importing HTML into the lexical editor)
+- Markdown to Lexical (or, importing Markdown into the lexical editor)
+- Lexical to Markdown
+
+A headless editor can perform such conversions outside of the main editor instance. Follow this method to initiate a headless editor:
+
+```ts
+import { createHeadlessEditor } from '@lexical/headless' // <= make sure this package is installed
+import { getEnabledNodes, sanitizeServerEditorConfig } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const yourEditorConfig // <= your editor config here
+const payloadConfig // <= your payload config here
+
+const headlessEditor = createHeadlessEditor({
+  nodes: getEnabledNodes({
+    editorConfig: sanitizeServerEditorConfig(yourEditorConfig, payloadConfig),
+  }),
+})
+```
+
+### Getting the editor config
+
+As you can see, you need to provide an editor config in order to create a headless editor. This is because the editor config is used to determine which nodes & features are enabled, and which converters are used.
+
+To get the editor config, simply import the default editor config and adjust it - just like you did inside of the `editor: lexicalEditor({})` property:
+
+```ts
+import { defaultEditorConfig, defaultEditorFeatures } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical' // <= make sure this package is installed
+
+const yourEditorConfig = defaultEditorConfig
+
+// If you made changes to the features of the field's editor config, you should also make those changes here:
+yourEditorConfig.features = [
+  ...defaultEditorFeatures,
+  // Add your custom features here
+]
+```
+
+### Getting the editor config from an existing field
+
+If you have access to the sanitized collection config, you can get access to the lexical sanitized editor config & features, as every lexical richText field returns it. Here is an example how you can get it from another field's afterRead hook:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig, RichTextField } from 'payload'
+import { createHeadlessEditor } from '@lexical/headless'
+import type { LexicalRichTextAdapter, SanitizedServerEditorConfig } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+import {
+  getEnabledNodes,
+  lexicalEditor
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export const MyCollection: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'slug',
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'text',
+      type: 'text',
+      hooks: {
+        afterRead: [
+          ({ value, collection }) => {
+            const otherRichTextField: RichTextField = collection.fields.find(
+              (field) => 'name' in field && field.name === 'richText',
+            ) as RichTextField
+
+            const lexicalAdapter: LexicalRichTextAdapter =
+              otherRichTextField.editor as LexicalRichTextAdapter
+
+            const sanitizedServerEditorConfig: SanitizedServerEditorConfig =
+              lexicalAdapter.editorConfig
+
+            const headlessEditor = createHeadlessEditor({
+              nodes: getEnabledNodes({
+                editorConfig: sanitizedServerEditorConfig,
+              }),
+            })
+
+            // Do whatever you want with the headless editor
+
+            return value
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'richText',
+      type: 'richText',
+      editor: lexicalEditor({
+        features,
+      }),
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+## HTML => Lexical
+
+Once you have your headless editor instance, you can use it to convert HTML to Lexical:
+
+```ts
+import { $generateNodesFromDOM } from '@lexical/html'
+import { $getRoot, $getSelection } from 'lexical'
+import { JSDOM } from 'jsdom'
+
+headlessEditor.update(
+  () => {
+    // In a headless environment you can use a package such as JSDom to parse the HTML string.
+    const dom = new JSDOM(htmlString)
+
+    // Once you have the DOM instance it's easy to generate LexicalNodes.
+    const nodes = $generateNodesFromDOM(headlessEditor, dom.window.document)
+
+    // Select the root
+    $getRoot().select()
+
+    // Insert them at a selection.
+    const selection = $getSelection()
+    selection.insertNodes(nodes)
+  },
+  { discrete: true },
+)
+
+// Do this if you then want to get the editor JSON
+const editorJSON = headlessEditor.getEditorState().toJSON()
+```
+
+Functions prefixed with a `$` can only be run inside an `editor.update()` or `editorState.read()` callback.
+
+This has been taken from the [lexical serialization & deserialization docs](https://lexical.dev/docs/concepts/serialization#html---lexical).
+
+<Banner type="success">
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  <br />
+  Using the <code>discrete: true</code> flag ensures instant updates to the editor state. If
+  immediate reading of the updated state isn't necessary, you can omit the flag.
+</Banner>
+
+## Markdown => Lexical
+
+Convert markdown content to the Lexical editor format with the following:
+
+```ts
+import { $convertFromMarkdownString } from '@lexical/markdown'
+import { sanitizeServerEditorConfig } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const yourSanitizedEditorConfig = sanitizeServerEditorConfig(yourEditorConfig, payloadConfig) // <= your editor config & payload config here
+const markdown = `# Hello World`
+
+headlessEditor.update(
+  () => {
+    $convertFromMarkdownString(markdown, yourSanitizedEditorConfig.features.markdownTransformers)
+  },
+  { discrete: true },
+)
+
+// Do this if you then want to get the editor JSON
+const editorJSON = headlessEditor.getEditorState().toJSON()
+```
+
+## Lexical => Markdown
+
+Export content from the Lexical editor into Markdown format using these steps:
+
+1. Import your current editor state into the headless editor.
+2. Convert and fetch the resulting markdown string.
+
+Here's the code for it:
+
+```ts
+import { $convertToMarkdownString } from '@lexical/markdown'
+import { sanitizeServerEditorConfig } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+import type { SerializedEditorState } from 'lexical'
+
+const yourSanitizedEditorConfig = sanitizeServerEditorConfig(yourEditorConfig, payloadConfig) // <= your editor config & payload config here
+const yourEditorState: SerializedEditorState // <= your current editor state here
+
+// Import editor state into your headless editor
+try {
+  headlessEditor.setEditorState(headlessEditor.parseEditorState(yourEditorState)) // This should commit the editor state immediately
+} catch (e) {
+  logger.error({ err: e }, 'ERROR parsing editor state')
+}
+
+// Export to markdown
+let markdown: string
+headlessEditor.getEditorState().read(() => {
+  markdown = $convertToMarkdownString(yourSanitizedEditorConfig?.features?.markdownTransformers)
+})
+```
+
+The `.setEditorState()` function immediately updates your editor state. Thus, there's no need for the `discrete: true` flag when reading the state afterward.
+
+## Lexical => Plain Text
+
+Export content from the Lexical editor into plain text using these steps:
+
+1. Import your current editor state into the headless editor.
+2. Convert and fetch the resulting plain text string.
+
+Here's the code for it:
+
+```ts
+import type { SerializedEditorState } from 'lexical'
+import { $getRoot } from 'lexical'
+
+const yourEditorState: SerializedEditorState // <= your current editor state here
+
+// Import editor state into your headless editor
+try {
+  headlessEditor.setEditorState(headlessEditor.parseEditorState(yourEditorState)) // This should commit the editor state immediately
+} catch (e) {
+  logger.error({ err: e }, 'ERROR parsing editor state')
+}
+
+// Export to plain text
+const plainTextContent =
+  headlessEditor.getEditorState().read(() => {
+    return $getRoot().getTextContent()
+  }) || ''
+```

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+---
+title: Lexical Migration
+label: Migration
+order: 30
+desc: Migration from slate and payload-plugin-lexical to lexical
+keywords: lexical, rich text, editor, headless cms, migrate, migration
+---
+
+## Migrating from Slate
+
+While both Slate and Lexical save the editor state in JSON, the structure of the JSON is different.
+
+### Migration via Migration Script (Recommended)
+
+Just import the `migrateSlateToLexical` function we provide, pass it the `payload` object and run it. Depending on the amount of collections, this might take a while.
+
+IMPORTANT: This will overwrite all slate data. We recommend doing the following first:
+1. Take a backup of your entire database. If anything goes wrong and you do not have a backup, you are on your own and will not receive any support.
+2. Make every richText field a lexical editor. This script will only convert lexical richText fields with old Slate data
+3. Add the SlateToLexicalFeature (as seen below) first, and test it out by loading up the admin panel, to see if the migrator works as expected. You might have to build some custom converters for some fields first in order to convert custom Slate nodes. The SlateToLexicalFeature is where the converters are stored. Only fields with this feature added will be migrated.
+
+```ts
+import { migrateSlateToLexical } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+await migrateSlateToLexical({ payload })
+```
+
+### Migration via SlateToLexicalFeature
+
+One way to handle this is to just give your lexical editor the ability to read the slate JSON.
+
+Simply add the `SlateToLexicalFeature` to your editor:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+import { SlateToLexicalFeature, lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const Pages: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'pages',
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'nameOfYourRichTextField',
+      type: 'richText',
+      editor: lexicalEditor({
+        features: ({ defaultFeatures }) => [...defaultFeatures, SlateToLexicalFeature({})],
+      }),
+    },
+  ],
+}
+```
+
+and done! Now, everytime this lexical editor is initialized, it converts the slate date to lexical on-the-fly. If the data is already in lexical format, it will just pass it through.
+
+This is by far the easiest way to migrate from Slate to Lexical, although it does come with a few caveats:
+
+- There is a performance hit when initializing the lexical editor
+- The editor will still output the Slate data in the output JSON, as the on-the-fly converter only runs for the admin panel
+
+The easy way to solve this: Edit the richText field and save the document! This overrides the slate data with the lexical data, and the next time the document is loaded, the lexical data will be used. This solves both the performance and the output issue for that specific document. This, however, is a slow and gradual migration process, thus you will have to support both API formats. Especially for a large number of documents, we recommend running the migration script, as explained above.
+
+### Converting custom Slate nodes
+
+If you have custom Slate nodes, create a custom converter for them. Here's the Upload converter as an example:
+
+```ts
+import type { SerializedUploadNode } from '../uploadNode.'
+import type { SlateNodeConverter } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export const SlateUploadConverter: SlateNodeConverter = {
+  converter({ slateNode }) {
+    return {
+      fields: {
+        ...slateNode.fields,
+      },
+      format: '',
+      relationTo: slateNode.relationTo,
+      type: 'upload',
+      value: {
+        id: slateNode.value?.id || '',
+      },
+      version: 1,
+    } as const as SerializedUploadNode
+  },
+  nodeTypes: ['upload'],
+}
+```
+
+It's pretty simple: You get a Slate node as input, and you return the lexical node. The `nodeTypes` array is used to determine which Slate nodes this converter can handle.
+
+When using a migration script, you can add your custom converters to the `converters` property of the `convertSlateToLexical` props, as seen in the example above
+
+When using the `SlateToLexicalFeature`, you can add your custom converters to the `converters` property of the `SlateToLexicalFeature` props:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+
+import {
+  SlateToLexicalFeature,
+  lexicalEditor,
+  defaultSlateConverters,
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+import { YourCustomConverter } from '../converters/YourCustomConverter'
+
+const Pages: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'pages',
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'nameOfYourRichTextField',
+      type: 'richText',
+      editor: lexicalEditor({
+        features: ({ defaultFeatures }) => [
+          ...defaultFeatures,
+          SlateToLexicalFeature({
+            converters: [...defaultSlateConverters, YourCustomConverter],
+          }),
+        ],
+      }),
+    },
+  ],
+}
+```
+
+## Migrating from payload-plugin-lexical
+
+Migrating from [payload-plugin-lexical](https://github.com/AlessioGr/payload-plugin-lexical) works similar to migrating from Slate.
+
+Instead of a `SlateToLexicalFeature` there is a `LexicalPluginToLexicalFeature` you can use. And instead of `convertSlateToLexical` you can use `convertLexicalPluginToLexical`.
+
+## Migrating lexical data from old version to new version
+
+Each lexical node has a `version` property which is saved in the database. Every time we make a breaking change to the node's data, we increment the version. This way, we can detect an old version and automatically convert old data to the new format once you open up the editor.
+
+The problem is, this migration only happens when you open the editor, modify the richText field (so that the field's `setValue` function is called) and save the document. Until you do that for all documents, some documents will still have the old data.
+
+To solve this, we export an `upgradeLexicalData` function which goes through every single document in your payload app and re-saves it, if it has a lexical editor. This way, the data is automatically converted to the new format, and that automatic conversion gets applied to every single document in your app.
+
+IMPORTANT: Take a backup of your entire database. If anything goes wrong and you do not have a backup, you are on your own and will not receive any support.
+
+```ts
+import { upgradeLexicalData } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+await upgradeLexicalData({ payload })
+```

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+---
+title: Lexical Overview
+label: Overview
+order: 10
+desc: Built by Meta, Lexical is an incredibly powerful rich text editor, and it works beautifully within Payload.
+keywords: lexical, rich text, editor, headless cms
+---
+
+One of Payload's goals is to build the best rich text editor experience that we possibly can. We want to combine the beauty and polish of the Medium editing experience with the strength and features of the Notion editor - all in one place.
+
+Classically, we've used SlateJS to work toward this goal, but building custom elements into Slate has proven to be more difficult than we'd like, and we've been keeping our options open.
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  Payload's Lexical rich text editor is currently in beta. It's stable enough to use as you build on
+  Payload, so if you're up for helping us fine-tune it, you should use it. But if you're looking for
+  stability, use Slate instead.
+</Banner>
+
+Lexical is extremely impressive and trivializes a lot of the hard parts of building new elements into a rich text editor. It has a few distinct advantages over Slate, including the following:
+
+1. A "/" menu, which allows editors to easily add new elements while never leaving their keyboard
+1. A "hover" toolbar that pops up if you select text
+1. It supports Payload blocks natively, directly within your rich text editor
+1. Custom elements, called "features", are much easier to build in Lexical vs. Slate
+
+To use the Lexical editor, first you need to install it:
+
+```
+npm install @payloadcms/richtext-lexical
+```
+
+Once you have it installed, you can pass it to your top-level Payload config as follows:
+
+```ts
+import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
+import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export default buildConfig({
+  collections: [
+    // your collections here
+  ],
+  // Pass the Lexical editor to the root config
+  editor: lexicalEditor({}),
+})
+```
+
+You can also override Lexical settings on a field-by-field basis as follows:
+
+```ts
+import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
+import { lexicalEditor } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+export const Pages: CollectionConfig = {
+  slug: 'pages',
+  fields: [
+    {
+      name: 'content',
+      type: 'richText',
+      // Pass the Lexical editor here and override base settings as necessary
+      editor: lexicalEditor({}),
+    },
+  ],
+}
+```
+
+## Extending the lexical editor with Features
+
+Lexical has been designed with extensibility in mind. Whether you're aiming to introduce new functionalities or tweak the existing ones, Lexical makes it seamless for you to bring those changes to life.
+
+### Features: The Building Blocks
+
+At the heart of Lexical's customization potential are "features". While Lexical ships with a set of default features we believe are essential for most use cases, the true power lies in your ability to redefine, expand, or prune these as needed.
+
+If you remove all the default features, you're left with a blank editor. You can then add in only the features you need, or you can build your own custom features from scratch.
+
+### Integrating New Features
+
+To weave in your custom features, utilize the `features` prop when initializing the Lexical Editor. Here's a basic example of how this is done:
+
+```ts
+import {
+  BlocksFeature,
+  LinkFeature,
+  UploadFeature,
+  lexicalEditor,
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+import { Banner } from '../blocks/Banner'
+import { CallToAction } from '../blocks/CallToAction'
+
+{
+  editor: lexicalEditor({
+    features: ({ defaultFeatures, rootFeatures }) => [
+      ...defaultFeatures,
+      LinkFeature({
+        // Example showing how to customize the built-in fields
+        // of the Link feature
+        fields: ({ defaultFields }) => [
+          ...defaultFields,
+          {
+            name: 'rel',
+            label: 'Rel Attribute',
+            type: 'select',
+            hasMany: true,
+            options: ['noopener', 'noreferrer', 'nofollow'],
+            admin: {
+              description:
+                'The rel attribute defines the relationship between a linked resource and the current document. This is a custom link field.',
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      }),
+      UploadFeature({
+        collections: {
+          uploads: {
+            // Example showing how to customize the built-in fields
+            // of the Upload feature
+            fields: [
+              {
+                name: 'caption',
+                type: 'richText',
+                editor: lexicalEditor(),
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+      // This is incredibly powerful. You can re-use your Payload blocks
+      // directly in the Lexical editor as follows:
+      BlocksFeature({
+        blocks: [Banner, CallToAction],
+      }),
+    ],
+  })
+}
+```
+
+`features` can be both an array of features, or a function returning an array of features. The function provides the following props:
+
+
+| Prop                  | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
+|-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`defaultFeatures`** | This opinionated array contains all "recommended" default features. You can see which features are included in the default features in the table below.                                                                                                |
+| **`rootFeatures`**    | This array contains all features that are enabled in the root richText editor (the one defined in the payload.config.ts). If this field is the root richText editor, or if the root richText editor is not a lexical editor, this array will be empty. |
+
+
+## Features overview
+
+Here's an overview of all the included features:
+
+| Feature Name                   | Included by default | Description                                                                                                                                                                            |
+|--------------------------------|---------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| **`BoldTextFeature`**          | Yes                 | Handles the bold text format                                                                                                                                                           |
+| **`ItalicTextFeature`**        | Yes                 | Handles the italic text format                                                                                                                                                         |
+| **`UnderlineTextFeature`**     | Yes                 | Handles the underline text format                                                                                                                                                      |
+| **`StrikethroughTextFeature`** | Yes                 | Handles the strikethrough text format                                                                                                                                                  |
+| **`SubscriptTextFeature`**     | Yes                 | Handles the subscript text format                                                                                                                                                      |
+| **`SuperscriptTextFeature`**   | Yes                 | Handles the superscript text format                                                                                                                                                    |
+| **`InlineCodeTextFeature`**    | Yes                 | Handles the inline-code text format                                                                                                                                                    |
+| **`ParagraphFeature`**         | Yes                 | Handles paragraphs. Since they are already a key feature of lexical itself, this Feature mainly handles the Slash and Add-Block menu entries for paragraphs                            |
+| **`HeadingFeature`**           | Yes                 | Adds Heading Nodes (by default, H1 - H6, but that can be customized)                                                                                                                   |
+| **`AlignFeature`**             | Yes                 | Allows you to align text left, centered and right                                                                                                                                      |
+| **`IndentFeature`**            | Yes                 | Allows you to indent text with the tab key                                                                                                                                             |
+| **`UnorderedListFeature`**     | Yes                 | Adds unordered lists (ul)                                                                                                                                                              |
+| **`OrderedListFeature`**       | Yes                 | Adds ordered lists (ol)                                                                                                                                                                |
+| **`CheckListFeature`**         | Yes                 | Adds checklists                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| **`LinkFeature`**              | Yes                 | Allows you to create internal and external links                                                                                                                                       |
+| **`RelationshipFeature`**      | Yes                 | Allows you to create block-level (not inline) relationships to other documents                                                                                                         |
+| **`BlockQuoteFeature`**        | Yes                 | Allows you to create block-level quotes                                                                                                                                                |
+| **`UploadFeature`**            | Yes                 | Allows you to create block-level upload nodes - this supports all kinds of uploads, not just images                                                                                    |
+| **`HorizontalRuleFeature`**    | Yes                 | Horizontal rules / separators. Basically displays an `<hr>` element                                                                                                                    |
+| **`InlineToolbarFeature`**     | Yes                 | The inline toolbar is the floating toolbar which appears when you select text. This toolbar only contains actions relevant for selected text                                           |
+| **`FixedToolbarFeature`**      | No                  | This classic toolbar is pinned to the top and always visible. Both inline and fixed toolbars can be enabled at the same time.                                                          |
+| **`BlocksFeature`**            | No                  | Allows you to use Payload's [Blocks Field](/docs/fields/blocks) directly inside your editor. In the feature props, you can specify the allowed blocks - just like in the Blocks field. |
+| **`TreeViewFeature`**          | No                  | Adds a debug box under the editor, which allows you to see the current editor state live, the dom, as well as time travel. Very useful for debugging                                   |
+
+Notice how even the toolbars are features? That's how extensible our lexical editor is - you could theoretically create your own toolbar if you wanted to!
+
+## Creating your own, custom Feature
+
+You can find more information about creating your own feature in our [building custom feature docs](lexical/building-custom-features).
+
+## TypeScript
+
+Every single piece of saved data is 100% fully-typed within lexical. It provides a type for every single node, which can be imported from `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical` - each type is prefixed with `Serialized`, e.g. `SerializedUploadNode`.
+
+In order to fully type the entire editor JSON, you can use our `TypedEditorState` helper type, which accepts a union of all possible node types as a generic. The reason we do not provide a type which already contains all possible node types is because the possible node types depend on which features you have enabled in your editor. Here is an example:
+
+```ts
+import type {
+  SerializedAutoLinkNode,
+  SerializedBlockNode,
+  SerializedHorizontalRuleNode,
+  SerializedLinkNode,
+  SerializedListItemNode,
+  SerializedListNode,
+  SerializedParagraphNode,
+  SerializedQuoteNode,
+  SerializedRelationshipNode,
+  SerializedTextNode,
+  SerializedUploadNode,
+  TypedEditorState,
+  SerializedHeadingNode,
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const editorState: TypedEditorState<
+  | SerializedAutoLinkNode
+  | SerializedBlockNode
+  | SerializedHorizontalRuleNode
+  | SerializedLinkNode
+  | SerializedListItemNode
+  | SerializedListNode
+  | SerializedParagraphNode
+  | SerializedQuoteNode
+  | SerializedRelationshipNode
+  | SerializedTextNode
+  | SerializedUploadNode
+  | SerializedHeadingNode
+> = {
+  root: {
+    type: 'root',
+    direction: 'ltr',
+    format: '',
+    indent: 0,
+    version: 1,
+    children: [
+      {
+        children: [
+          {
+            detail: 0,
+            format: 0,
+            mode: 'normal',
+            style: '',
+            text: 'Some text. Every property here is fully-typed',
+            type: 'text',
+            version: 1,
+          },
+        ],
+        direction: 'ltr',
+        format: '',
+        indent: 0,
+        type: 'paragraph',
+        textFormat: 0,
+        version: 1,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+}
+```
+
+Alternatively, you can use the `DefaultTypedEditorState` type, which includes all types for all nodes included in the `defaultFeatures`:
+
+```ts
+import type {
+  DefaultTypedEditorState
+} from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
+
+const editorState: DefaultTypedEditorState = {
+  root: {
+    type: 'root',
+    direction: 'ltr',
+    format: '',
+    indent: 0,
+    version: 1,
+    children: [
+      {
+        children: [
+          {
+            detail: 0,
+            format: 0,
+            mode: 'normal',
+            style: '',
+            text: 'Some text. Every property here is fully-typed',
+            type: 'text',
+            version: 1,
+          },
+        ],
+        direction: 'ltr',
+        format: '',
+        indent: 0,
+        type: 'paragraph',
+        textFormat: 0,
+        version: 1,
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+}
+```
+
+Just like `TypedEditorState`, the `DefaultTypedEditorState` also accepts an optional node type union as a generic. Here, this would **add** the specified node types to the default ones. Example: `DefaultTypedEditorState<SerializedBlockNode | YourCustomSerializedNode>`.
+
+This is a type-safe representation of the editor state. Looking at the auto-suggestions of `type` it will show you all the possible node types you can use.
+
+Make sure to only use types exported from `@payloadcms/richtext-lexical`, not from the lexical core packages. We only have control over types we export and can guarantee that those are correct, even though lexical core may export types with identical names.
+
+### Automatic type generation
+
+Lexical does not generate the accurate type definitions for your richText fields for you yet - this will be improved in the future. Currently, it only outputs the rough shape of the editor JSON which you can enhance using type assertions.

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+---
+title: Client-side Live Preview
+label: Client-side
+order: 40
+desc: Learn how to implement Live Preview in your client-side front-end application.
+keywords: live preview, frontend, react, next.js, vue, nuxt.js, svelte, hook, useLivePreview
+---
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  If your front-end application supports Server Components like the [Next.js App Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/app), etc., we suggest setting up [server-side Live Preview](./server) instead.
+</Banner>
+
+While using Live Preview, the Admin panel emits a new `window.postMessage` event every time your document has changed. Your front-end application can listen for these events and re-render accordingly.
+
+If your front-end application is built with [React](#react) or [Vue](#vue), use the `useLivePreview` hooks that Payload provides. In the future, all other major frameworks like Svelte will be officially supported. If you are using any of these frameworks today, you can still integrate with Live Preview yourself using the underlying tooling that Payload provides. See [building your own hook](#building-your-own-hook) for more information.
+
+By default, all hooks accept the following args:
+
+| Path               | Description                                                                            |
+| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`serverURL`** \* | The URL of your Payload server.                                                        |
+| **`initialData`**  | The initial data of the document. The live data will be merged in as changes are made. |
+| **`depth`**        | The depth of the relationships to fetch. Defaults to `0`.                              |
+| **`apiRoute`**     | The path of your API route as defined in `routes.api`. Defaults to `/api`.             |
+
+_\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
+
+And return the following values:
+
+| Path            | Description                                                      |
+| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`data`**      | The live data of the document, merged with the initial data.     |
+| **`isLoading`** | A boolean that indicates whether or not the document is loading. |
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  If your front-end is tightly coupled to required fields, you should ensure that your UI does not
+  break when these fields are removed. For example, if you are rendering something like
+  `data.relatedPosts[0].title`, your page will break once you remove the first related post. To get
+  around this, use conditional logic, optional chaining, or default values in your UI where needed.
+  For example, `data?.relatedPosts?.[0]?.title`.
+</Banner>
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  It is important that the `depth` argument matches exactly with the depth of your initial page request. The depth property is used to populated relationships and uploads beyond their IDs. See [Depth](../getting-started/concepts#depth) for more information.
+</Banner>
+
+## React
+
+If your front-end application is built with client-side [React](https://react.dev) like [Next.js Pages Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/pages), you can use the `useLivePreview` hook that Payload provides.
+
+First, install the `@payloadcms/live-preview-react` package:
+
+```bash
+npm install @payloadcms/live-preview-react
+```
+
+Then, use the `useLivePreview` hook in your React component:
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+import { useLivePreview } from '@payloadcms/live-preview-react'
+import { Page as PageType } from '@/payload-types'
+
+// Fetch the page in a server component, pass it to the client component, then thread it through the hook
+// The hook will take over from there and keep the preview in sync with the changes you make
+// The `data` property will contain the live data of the document
+export const PageClient: React.FC<{
+  page: {
+    title: string
+  }
+}> = ({ page: initialPage }) => {
+  const { data } = useLivePreview<PageType>({
+    initialData: initialPage,
+    serverURL: PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL,
+    depth: 2,
+  })
+
+  return <h1>{data.title}</h1>
+}
+```
+
+## Vue
+
+If your front-end application is built with [Vue 3](https://vuejs.org) or [Nuxt 3](https://nuxt.js), you can use the `useLivePreview` composable that Payload provides.
+
+First, install the `@payloadcms/live-preview-vue` package:
+
+```bash
+npm install @payloadcms/live-preview-vue
+```
+
+Then, use the `useLivePreview` hook in your Vue component:
+
+```vue
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import type { PageData } from '~/types';
+import { defineProps } from 'vue';
+import { useLivePreview } from '@payloadcms/live-preview-vue';
+
+// Fetch the initial data on the parent component or using async state
+const props = defineProps<{ initialData: PageData }>();
+
+// The hook will take over from here and keep the preview in sync with the changes you make.
+// The `data` property will contain the live data of the document only when viewed from the Preview view of the Admin UI.
+const { data } = useLivePreview<PageData>({
+  initialData: props.initialData,
+  serverURL: "<PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL>",
+  depth: 2,
+});
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <h1>{{ data.title }}</h1>
+</template>
+```
+
+## Building your own hook
+
+No matter what front-end framework you are using, you can build your own hook using the same underlying tooling that Payload provides.
+
+First, install the base `@payloadcms/live-preview` package:
+
+```bash
+npm install @payloadcms/live-preview
+```
+
+This package provides the following functions:
+
+| Path                     | Description                                                                                                                |
+| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`subscribe`**          | Subscribes to the Admin panel's `window.postMessage` events and calls the provided callback function.                      |
+| **`unsubscribe`**        | Unsubscribes from the Admin panel's `window.postMessage` events.                                                           |
+| **`ready`**              | Sends a `window.postMessage` event to the Admin panel to indicate that the front-end is ready to receive messages.         |
+| **`isLivePreviewEvent`** | Checks if a `MessageEvent` originates from the Admin panel and is a Live Preview event, i.e. debounced form state.         |
+
+The `subscribe` function takes the following args:
+
+| Path               | Description                                                                                 |
+| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **`callback`** \*  | A callback function that is called with `data` every time a change is made to the document. |
+| **`serverURL`** \* | The URL of your Payload server.                                                             |
+| **`initialData`**  | The initial data of the document. The live data will be merged in as changes are made.      |
+| **`depth`**        | The depth of the relationships to fetch. Defaults to `0`.                                   |
+
+With these functions, you can build your own hook using your front-end framework of choice:
+
+```tsx
+import { subscribe, unsubscribe } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
+
+// To build your own hook, subscribe to Live Preview events using the `subscribe` function
+// It handles everything from:
+// 1. Listening to `window.postMessage` events
+// 2. Merging initial data with active form state
+// 3. Populating relationships and uploads
+// 4. Calling the `onChange` callback with the result
+// Your hook should also:
+// 1. Tell the Admin panel when it is ready to receive messages
+// 2. Handle the results of the `onChange` callback to update the UI
+// 3. Unsubscribe from the `window.postMessage` events when it unmounts
+```
+
+Here is an example of what the same `useLivePreview` React hook from above looks like under the hood:
+
+```tsx
+import { subscribe, unsubscribe, ready } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useState, useRef } from 'react'
+
+export const useLivePreview = <T extends any>(props: {
+  depth?: number
+  initialData: T
+  serverURL: string
+}): {
+  data: T
+  isLoading: boolean
+} => {
+  const { depth = 0, initialData, serverURL } = props
+  const [data, setData] = useState<T>(initialData)
+  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState<boolean>(true)
+  const hasSentReadyMessage = useRef<boolean>(false)
+
+  const onChange = useCallback((mergedData) => {
+    // When a change is made, the `onChange` callback will be called with the merged data
+    // Set this merged data into state so that React will re-render the UI
+    setData(mergedData)
+    setIsLoading(false)
+  }, [])
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // Listen for `window.postMessage` events from the Admin panel
+    // When a change is made, the `onChange` callback will be called with the merged data
+    const subscription = subscribe({
+      callback: onChange,
+      depth,
+      initialData,
+      serverURL,
+    })
+
+    // Once subscribed, send a `ready` message back up to the Admin panel
+    // This will indicate that the front-end is ready to receive messages
+    if (!hasSentReadyMessage.current) {
+      hasSentReadyMessage.current = true
+
+      ready({
+        serverURL,
+      })
+    }
+
+    // When the component unmounts, unsubscribe from the `window.postMessage` events
+    return () => {
+      unsubscribe(subscription)
+    }
+  }, [serverURL, onChange, depth, initialData])
+
+  return {
+    data,
+    isLoading,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  When building your own hook, ensure that the args and return values are consistent with the ones
+  listed at the top of this document. This will ensure that all hooks follow the same API.
+</Banner>
+
+## Example
+
+For a working demonstration of this, check out the official [Live Preview Example](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/payload). There you will find examples of various front-end frameworks and how to integrate each one of them, including:
+
+- [Next.js App Router](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/next-app)
+- [Next.js Pages Router](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/next-pages)
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### Relationships and/or uploads are not populating
+
+If you are using relationships or uploads in your front-end application, and your front-end application runs on a different domain than your Payload server, you may need to configure [CORS](../configuration/overview) to allow requests to be made between the two domains. This includes sites that are running on a different port or subdomain. Similarly, if you are protecting resources behind user authentication, you may also need to configure [CSRF](../authentication/overview#csrf-protection) to allow cookies to be sent between the two domains. For example:
+
+```ts
+// payload.config.ts
+{
+  // ...
+  // If your site is running on a different domain than your Payload server,
+  // This will allows requests to be made between the two domains
+  cors: {
+    [
+      'http://localhost:3001' // Your front-end application
+    ],
+  },
+  // If you are protecting resources behind user authentication,
+  // This will allow cookies to be sent between the two domains
+  csrf: {
+    [
+      'http://localhost:3001' // Your front-end application
+    ],
+  },
+}
+```
+
+### Relationships and/or uploads disappear after editing a document
+
+It is possible that either you are setting an improper [`depth`](../getting-started/concepts#depth) in your initial request and/or your `useLivePreview` hook, or they're mismatched. Ensure that the `depth` parameter is set to the correct value, and that it matches exactly in both places. For example:
+
+```tsx
+// Your initial request
+const { docs } = await payload.find({
+  collection: 'pages',
+  depth: 1, // Ensure this is set to the proper depth for your application
+  where: {
+    slug: {
+      equals: 'home',
+    },
+  },
+})
+```
+
+```tsx
+// Your hook
+const { data } = useLivePreview<PageType>({
+  initialData: initialPage,
+  serverURL: PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL,
+  depth: 1, // Ensure this matches the depth of your initial request
+})
+```
+
+### Iframe refuses to connect
+
+If your front-end application has set a [Content Security Policy](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP) (CSP) that blocks the Admin Panel from loading your front-end application, the iframe will not be able to load your site. To resolve this, you can whitelist the Admin Panel's domain in your CSP by setting the `frame-ancestors` directive:
+
+```plaintext
+frame-ancestors: "self" localhost:* https://your-site.com;
+```

docs/live-preview/frontend.mdx

@@ -1,279 +1,16 @@
 ---
-title: Implementing Live Preview in your app
-label: Frontend Implementation
+title: Implementing Live Preview in your frontend
+label: Frontend
 order: 20
 desc: Learn how to implement Live Preview in your front-end application.
 keywords: live preview, frontend, react, next.js, vue, nuxt.js, svelte, hook, useLivePreview
 ---
 
-While using Live Preview, the Admin panel emits a new `window.postMessage` event every time a change is made to the document. Your front-end application can listen for these events and re-render accordingly.
+There are two ways to use Live Preview in your own application depending on whether your front-end framework supports Server Components:
 
-Wiring your front-end into Live Preview is easy. If your front-end application is built with React, Next.js, Vue or Nuxt.js, use the `useLivePreview` hook that Payload provides. In the future, all other major frameworks like Svelte will be officially supported. If you are using any of these frameworks today, you can still integrate with Live Preview yourself using the underlying tooling that Payload provides. See [building your own hook](#building-your-own-hook) for more information.
-
-By default, all hooks accept the following args:
-
-| Path               | Description                                                                            |
-| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`serverURL`** \* | The URL of your Payload server.                                                        |
-| **`initialData`**  | The initial data of the document. The live data will be merged in as changes are made. |
-| **`depth`**        | The depth of the relationships to fetch. Defaults to `0`.                              |
-| **`apiRoute`**     | The path of your API route as defined in `routes.api`. Defaults to `/api`.             |
-
-_\* An asterisk denotes that a property is required._
-
-And return the following values:
-
-| Path            | Description                                                      |
-| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`data`**      | The live data of the document, merged with the initial data.     |
-| **`isLoading`** | A boolean that indicates whether or not the document is loading. |
+- [Server-side Live Preview (suggested)](./server)
+- [Client-side Live Preview](./client)
 
 <Banner type="info">
-  If your front-end is tightly coupled to required fields, you should ensure that your UI does not
-  break when these fields are removed. For example, if you are rendering something like
-  `data.relatedPosts[0].title`, your page will break once you remove the first related post. To get
-  around this, use conditional logic, optional chaining, or default values in your UI where needed.
-  For example, `data?.relatedPosts?.[0]?.title`.
+  We suggest using server-side Live Preview if your framework supports Server Components, it is both simpler to setup and more performant to run than the client-side alternative.
 </Banner>
-
-<Banner type="info">
-  It is important that the `depth` argument matches exactly with the depth of your initial page request. The depth property is used to populated relationships and uploads beyond their IDs. See [Depth](../getting-started/concepts#depth) for more information.
-</Banner>
-
-### React
-
-If your front-end application is built with React or Next.js, you can use the `useLivePreview` hook that Payload provides.
-
-First, install the `@payloadcms/live-preview-react` package:
-
-```bash
-npm install @payloadcms/live-preview-react
-```
-
-Then, use the `useLivePreview` hook in your React component:
-
-```tsx
-'use client'
-import { useLivePreview } from '@payloadcms/live-preview-react'
-import { Page as PageType } from '@/payload-types'
-
-// Fetch the page in a server component, pass it to the client component, then thread it through the hook
-// The hook will take over from there and keep the preview in sync with the changes you make
-// The `data` property will contain the live data of the document
-export const PageClient: React.FC<{
-  page: {
-    title: string
-  }
-}> = ({ page: initialPage }) => {
-  const { data } = useLivePreview<PageType>({
-    initialData: initialPage,
-    serverURL: PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL,
-    depth: 2,
-  })
-
-  return <h1>{data.title}</h1>
-}
-```
-
-### Vue
-
-If your front-end application is built with Vue 3 or Nuxt 3, you can use the `useLivePreview` composable that Payload provides.
-
-First, install the `@payloadcms/live-preview-vue` package:
-
-```bash
-npm install @payloadcms/live-preview-vue
-```
-
-Then, use the `useLivePreview` hook in your Vue component:
-
-```vue
-<script setup lang="ts">
-import type { PageData } from '~/types';
-import { defineProps } from 'vue';
-import { useLivePreview } from '@payloadcms/live-preview-vue';
-
-// Fetch the initial data on the parent component or using async state
-const props = defineProps<{ initialData: PageData }>();
-
-// The hook will take over from here and keep the preview in sync with the changes you make.
-// The `data` property will contain the live data of the document only when viewed from the Preview view of the Admin UI.
-const { data } = useLivePreview<PageData>({
-  initialData: props.initialData,
-  serverURL: "<PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL>",
-  depth: 2,
-});
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <h1>{{ data.title }}</h1>
-</template>
-```
-
-## Building your own hook
-
-No matter what front-end framework you are using, you can build your own hook using the same underlying tooling that Payload provides.
-
-First, install the base `@payloadcms/live-preview` package:
-
-```bash
-npm install @payloadcms/live-preview
-```
-
-This package provides the following functions:
-
-| Path              | Description                                                                                                        |
-| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| **`subscribe`**   | Subscribes to the Admin panel's `window.postMessage` events and calls the provided callback function.              |
-| **`unsubscribe`** | Unsubscribes from the Admin panel's `window.postMessage` events.                                                   |
-| **`ready`**       | Sends a `window.postMessage` event to the Admin panel to indicate that the front-end is ready to receive messages. |
-
-The `subscribe` function takes the following args:
-
-| Path               | Description                                                                                 |
-| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| **`callback`** \*  | A callback function that is called with `data` every time a change is made to the document. |
-| **`serverURL`** \* | The URL of your Payload server.                                                             |
-| **`initialData`**  | The initial data of the document. The live data will be merged in as changes are made.      |
-| **`depth`**        | The depth of the relationships to fetch. Defaults to `0`.                                   |
-
-With these functions, you can build your own hook using your front-end framework of choice:
-
-```tsx
-import { subscribe, unsubscribe } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
-
-// To build your own hook, subscribe to Live Preview events using the`subscribe` function
-// It handles everything from:
-// 1. Listening to `window.postMessage` events
-// 2. Merging initial data with active form state
-// 3. Populating relationships and uploads
-// 4. Calling the `onChange` callback with the result
-// Your hook should also:
-// 1. Tell the Admin panel when it is ready to receive messages
-// 2. Handle the results of the `onChange` callback to update the UI
-// 3. Unsubscribe from the `window.postMessage` events when it unmounts
-```
-
-Here is an example of what the same `useLivePreview` React hook from above looks like under the hood:
-
-```tsx
-import { subscribe, unsubscribe, ready } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
-import { useCallback, useEffect, useState, useRef } from 'react'
-
-export const useLivePreview = <T extends any>(props: {
-  depth?: number
-  initialData: T
-  serverURL: string
-}): {
-  data: T
-  isLoading: boolean
-} => {
-  const { depth = 0, initialData, serverURL } = props
-  const [data, setData] = useState<T>(initialData)
-  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState<boolean>(true)
-  const hasSentReadyMessage = useRef<boolean>(false)
-
-  const onChange = useCallback((mergedData) => {
-    // When a change is made, the `onChange` callback will be called with the merged data
-    // Set this merged data into state so that React will re-render the UI
-    setData(mergedData)
-    setIsLoading(false)
-  }, [])
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    // Listen for `window.postMessage` events from the Admin panel
-    // When a change is made, the `onChange` callback will be called with the merged data
-    const subscription = subscribe({
-      callback: onChange,
-      depth,
-      initialData,
-      serverURL,
-    })
-
-    // Once subscribed, send a `ready` message back up to the Admin panel
-    // This will indicate that the front-end is ready to receive messages
-    if (!hasSentReadyMessage.current) {
-      hasSentReadyMessage.current = true
-
-      ready({
-        serverURL,
-      })
-    }
-
-    // When the component unmounts, unsubscribe from the `window.postMessage` events
-    return () => {
-      unsubscribe(subscription)
-    }
-  }, [serverURL, onChange, depth, initialData])
-
-  return {
-    data,
-    isLoading,
-  }
-}
-```
-
-<Banner type="info">
-  When building your own hook, ensure that the args and return values are consistent with the ones
-  listed at the top of this document. This will ensure that all hooks follow the same API.
-</Banner>
-
-## Example
-
-For a working demonstration of this, check out the official [Live Preview Example](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/payload). There you will find examples of various front-end frameworks and how to integrate each one of them, including:
-
-- [Next.js App Router](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/next-app)
-- [Next.js Pages Router](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/next-pages)
-
-## Troubleshooting
-
-#### Relationships and/or uploads are not populating
-
-If you are using relationships or uploads in your front-end application, and your front-end application runs on a different domain than your Payload server, you may need to configure [CORS](../configuration/overview) to allow requests to be made between the two domains. This includes sites that are running on a different port or subdomain. Similarly, if you are protecting resources behind user authentication, you may also need to configure [CSRF](../authentication/overview#csrf-protection) to allow cookies to be sent between the two domains. For example:
-
-```ts
-// payload.config.ts
-{
-  // ...
-  // If your site is running on a different domain than your Payload server,
-  // This will allows requests to be made between the two domains
-  cors: {
-    [
-      'http://localhost:3001' // Your front-end application
-    ],
-  },
-  // If you are protecting resources behind user authentication,
-  // This will allow cookies to be sent between the two domains
-  csrf: {
-    [
-      'http://localhost:3001' // Your front-end application
-    ],
-  },
-}
-```
-
-#### Relationships and/or uploads disappear after editing a document
-
-It is possible that either you are setting an improper [`depth`](../getting-started/concepts#depth) in your initial request and/or your `useLivePreview` hook, or they're mismatched. Ensure that the `depth` parameter is set to the correct value, and that it matches exactly in both places. For example:
-
-```tsx
-// Your initial request
-const { docs } = await payload.find({
-  collection: 'pages',
-  depth: 1, // Ensure this is set to the proper depth for your application
-  where: {
-    slug: {
-      equals: 'home',
-    },
-  },
-})
-```
-
-```tsx
-// Your hook
-const { data } = useLivePreview<PageType>({
-  initialData: initialPage,
-  serverURL: PAYLOAD_SERVER_URL,
-  depth: 1, // Ensure this matches the depth of your initial request
-})
-```

docs/live-preview/overview.mdx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ keywords: live preview, preview, live, iframe, iframe preview, visual editing, d
 
 **With Live Preview you can render your front-end application directly within the Admin panel. As you type, your changes take effect in real-time. No need to save a draft or publish your changes.**
 
-Live Preview works by rendering an iframe on the page that loads your front-end application. The Admin panel communicates with your app through [`window.postMessage`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage) events. These events are emitted every time a change is made to the document. Your app then listens for these events and re-renders itself with the data it receives.
+Live Preview works by rendering an iframe on the page that loads your front-end application. The Admin panel communicates with your app through [`window.postMessage`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage) events. These events are emitted every time a change is made to the document. Your app then listens for these events and re-renders itself with the data it receives. Live Preview works in both server-side as well as client-side environments. See [Front-End](./frontend) for more details.
 
 {/* IMAGE OF LIVE PREVIEW HERE */}
 

docs/live-preview/server.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+---
+title: Server-side Live Preview
+label: Server-side
+order: 30
+desc: Learn how to implement Live Preview in your server-side front-end application.
+keywords: live preview, frontend, react, next.js, vue, nuxt.js, svelte, hook, useLivePreview
+---
+
+<Banner type="info">
+  Server-side Live Preview is only for front-end frameworks that support the concept of Server Components, i.e. [React Server Components](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components). If your front-end application is built with a client-side framework like the [Next.js Pages Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/pages), [React Router](https://reactrouter.com), [Vue 3](https://vuejs.org), etc., see [client-side Live Preview](./client).
+</Banner>
+
+Server-side Live Preview works by making a roundtrip to the server every time your document is saved, i.e. draft save, autosave, or publish. While using Live Preview, the Admin panel emits a new `window.postMessage` event which your front-end application can use to invoke this process. In Next.js, this means simply calling `router.refresh()` which will hydrate the HTML using new data straight from the [Local API](../local-api/overview).
+
+<Banner type="warning">
+  It is recommended that you enable [Autosave](../versions/autosave) alongside Live Preview to make the experience feel more responsive.
+</Banner>
+
+If your front-end application is built with [React](#react), you can use the `RefreshRouteOnChange` function that Payload provides. In the future, all other major frameworks like Vue and Svelte will be officially supported. If you are using any of these frameworks today, you can still integrate with Live Preview yourself using the underlying tooling that Payload provides. See [building your own router refresh component](#building-your-own-router-refresh-component) for more information.
+
+## React
+
+If your front-end application is built with server-side [React](https://react.dev) like [Next.js App Router](https://nextjs.org/docs/app), you can use the `RefreshRouteOnSave` component that Payload provides.
+
+First, install the `@payloadcms/live-preview-react` package:
+
+```bash
+npm install @payloadcms/live-preview-react
+```
+
+Then, render the `RefreshRouteOnSave` component anywhere in your `page.tsx`. Here's an example:
+
+`page.tsx`:
+
+```tsx
+import { RefreshRouteOnSave } from './RefreshRouteOnSave.tsx'
+import { getPayloadHMR } from '@payloadcms/next'
+import config from '../payload.config'
+
+export default async function Page() {
+  const payload = await getPayloadHMR({ config })
+
+  const page = await payload.findByID({
+    collection: 'pages',
+    id: '123',
+    draft: true
+  })
+
+  return (
+    <Fragment>
+      <RefreshRouteOnSave />
+      <h1>{page.title}</h1>
+    </Fragment>
+  )
+}
+```
+
+`RefreshRouteOnSave.tsx`:
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+import { RefreshRouteOnSave as PayloadLivePreview } from '@payloadcms/live-preview-react'
+import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation.js'
+import React from 'react'
+
+export const RefreshRouteOnSave: React.FC = () => {
+  const router = useRouter()
+
+  return (
+    <PayloadLivePreview
+      refresh={() => router.refresh()}
+      serverURL={process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PAYLOAD_URL}
+    />
+  )
+}
+```
+
+## Building your own router refresh component
+
+No matter what front-end framework you are using, you can build your own component using the same underlying tooling that Payload provides.
+
+First, install the base `@payloadcms/live-preview` package:
+
+```bash
+npm install @payloadcms/live-preview
+```
+
+This package provides the following functions:
+
+| Path                  | Description                                                                                                                                |
+| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| **`ready`**           | Sends a `window.postMessage` event to the Admin panel to indicate that the front-end is ready to receive messages.                         |
+| **`isDocumentEvent`** | Checks if a `MessageEvent` originates from the Admin panel and is a document-level event, i.e. draft save, autosave, publish, etc.         |
+
+With these functions, you can build your own hook using your front-end framework of choice:
+
+```tsx
+import { ready, isDocumentEvent } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
+
+// To build your own component:
+// 1. Listen for document-level `window.postMessage` events sent from the Admin panel
+// 2. Tell the Admin panel when it is ready to receive messages
+// 3. Refresh the route every time a new document-level event is received
+// 4. Unsubscribe from the `window.postMessage` events when it unmounts
+```
+
+Here is an example of what the same `RefreshRouteOnSave` React component from above looks like under the hood:
+
+```tsx
+'use client'
+
+import type React from 'react'
+
+import { isDocumentEvent, ready } from '@payloadcms/live-preview'
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
+
+export const RefreshRouteOnSave: React.FC<{
+  apiRoute?: string
+  depth?: number
+  refresh: () => void
+  serverURL: string
+}> = (props) => {
+  const { apiRoute, depth, refresh, serverURL } = props
+  const hasSentReadyMessage = useRef<boolean>(false)
+
+  const onMessage = useCallback(
+    (event: MessageEvent) => {
+      if (isDocumentEvent(event, serverURL)) {
+        if (typeof refresh === 'function') {
+          refresh()
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    [refresh, serverURL],
+  )
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
+      window.addEventListener('message', onMessage)
+    }
+
+    if (!hasSentReadyMessage.current) {
+      hasSentReadyMessage.current = true
+
+      ready({
+        serverURL,
+      })
+    }
+
+    return () => {
+      if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
+        window.removeEventListener('message', onMessage)
+      }
+    }
+  }, [serverURL, onMessage, depth, apiRoute])
+
+  return null
+}
+```
+
+## Example
+
+For a working demonstration of this, check out the official [Live Preview Example](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/tree/main/examples/live-preview/payload). There you will find a fully working example of how to implement Live Preview in your Next.js App Router application.
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### Updates do not appear as fast as client-side Live Preview
+
+If you are noticing that updates feel less snappy than client-side Live Preview (i.e. the `useLivePreview` hook), this is because of how the two differ in how they work—instead of emitting events against _form state_, server-side Live Preview refreshes the route after a new document is _saved_.
+
+Use [Autosave](../versions/autosave) to mimic this effect server-side. Try decreasing the value of `versions.autoSave.interval` to make the experience feel more responsive:
+
+```ts
+// collection.ts
+{
+   versions: {
+    drafts: {
+      autosave: {
+        interval: 375,
+      },
+    },
+  },
+}
+```
+
+### Iframe refuses to connect
+
+If your front-end application has set a [Content Security Policy](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP) (CSP) that blocks the Admin Panel from loading your front-end application, the iframe will not be able to load your site. To resolve this, you can whitelist the Admin Panel's domain in your CSP by setting the `frame-ancestors` directive:
+
+```plaintext
+frame-ancestors: "self" localhost:* https://your-site.com;
+```

docs/local-api/outside-nextjs.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+---
+title: Using Payload outside Next.js
+label: Outside Next.js
+order: 20
+desc: Payload can be used outside of Next.js within standalone scripts or in other frameworks like Remix, Sveltekit, Nuxt, and similar. 
+keywords: local api, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+---
+
+Payload can be used completely outside of Next.js which is helpful in cases like running scripts, using Payload in a separate backend service, or using Payload's Local API to fetch your data directly from your database in other frontend frameworks like Sveltekit, Remix, Nuxt, and similar.
+
+<Banner>
+  <strong>Note:</strong>
+  <br/>
+  Payload and all of its official packages are fully ESM. If you want to use Payload within your own projects, make sure you are writing your scripts in ESM format or dynamically importing the Payload config.
+</Banner>
+
+## Importing the Payload config outside of Next.js
+
+Your Payload config likely has imports which need to be handled properly, such as CSS imports and similar. If you were to try and import your config without any Node support for SCSS / CSS files, you'll see errors that arise accordingly. 
+
+This is especially relevant if you are importing your Payload config outside of a bundler context, such as in standalone Node scripts.
+
+For these cases, you can use Payload's `importConfig` function to handle importing your config safely. It will handle everything you need to be able to load and use your Payload config, without any client-side files present.
+
+Here's an example of a seed script that creates a few documents for local development / testing purposes, using Payload's `importConfig` function to safely import Payload, and the `getPayload` function to retrieve an initialized copy of Payload.
+
+```ts
+// We are importing `getPayload` because we don't need HMR
+// for a standalone script. For usage of Payload inside Next.js,
+// you should always use `import { getPayloadHMR } from '@payloadcms/next/utilities'` instead.
+import { getPayload } from 'payload'
+
+// This is a helper function that will make sure we can safely load the Payload config
+// and all of its client-side files, such as CSS, SCSS, etc.
+import { importConfig } from 'payload/node'
+
+import path from 'path'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import dotenv from 'dotenv'
+
+// In ESM, you can create the "dirname" variable
+// like this. We'll use this with `dotenv` to load our `.env` file, if necessary.
+const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
+const dirname = path.dirname(filename)
+
+// If you don't need to load your .env file, 
+// then you can skip this part!
+dotenv.config({
+  path: path.resolve(dirname, '../.env'),
+})
+
+const seed = async () => {
+  // Get a local copy of Payload by passing your config
+  const payload = await getPayload({ config })
+
+  const user = await payload.create({
+    collection: 'users',
+    data: {
+      email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
+      password: 'some-password'
+    }
+  })
+
+  const page = await payload.create({
+    collection: 'pages',
+    data: {
+      title: 'My Homepage',
+      // other data to seed here
+    }
+  })
+}
+
+// Call the function here to run your seed script
+seed()
+
+```

docs/local-api/overview.mdx

@@ -3,56 +3,32 @@ title: Local API
 label: Overview
 order: 10
 desc: The Payload Local API allows you to interact with your database and execute the same operations that are available through REST and GraphQL within Node, directly on your server.
-keywords: local api, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, express
+keywords: local api, config, configuration, documentation, Content Management System, cms, headless, javascript, node, react, nextjs
 ---
 
-The Payload Local API gives you the ability to execute the same operations that are available through REST and GraphQL
-within Node, directly on your server. Here, you don't need to deal with server latency or network speed whatsoever and
-can interact directly with your database.
+The Payload Local API gives you the ability to execute the same operations that are available through REST and GraphQL within Node, directly on your server. Here, you don't need to deal with server latency or network speed whatsoever and can interact directly with your database.
 
 <Banner type="success">
   <strong>Tip:</strong>
   <br />
-  The Local API is incredibly powerful when used with server-side rendering app frameworks like
-  NextJS. With other headless CMS, you need to request your data from third-party servers which can
-  add significant loading time to your server-rendered pages. With Payload, you don't have to leave
-  your server to gather the data you need. It can be incredibly fast and is definitely a game
-  changer.
+  The Local API is incredibly powerful when used in React Server Components and other similar server-side contexts. With other headless CMS, you need to request your data from third-party servers via an HTTP layer, which can add significant loading time to your server-rendered pages. With Payload, you don't have to leave your server to gather the data you need. It can be incredibly fast and is definitely a game changer.
 </Banner>
 
 Here are some common examples of how you can use the Local API:
 
+- Fetching Payload data within React Server Components
 - Seeding data via Node seed scripts that you write and maintain
-- Opening custom Express routes which feature additional functionality but still rely on Payload
+- Opening custom Next.js route handlers which feature additional functionality but still rely on Payload
+- Within Payload access control and hook functions
 - Within access control and hook functions
 
-### Accessing payload
+## Accessing Payload
 
 You can gain access to the currently running `payload` object via two ways:
 
-##### Importing it
+#### Accessing from args or `req`
 
-You can import or require `payload` into your own files after it's been initialized, but you need to make sure that
-your `import` / `require` statements come **after** you call `payload.init()`—otherwise Payload won't have been
-initialized yet. That might be obvious. To us, it's usually not.
-
-Example:
-
-```ts
-import payload from 'payload'
-import { CollectionAfterChangeHook } from 'payload/types'
-
-const afterChangeHook: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async () => {
-  const posts = await payload.find({
-    collection: 'posts',
-  })
-}
-```
-
-##### Accessing from the `req`
-
-Payload is available anywhere you have access to the Express `req` - including within your access control and hook
-functions.
+In most places within Payload itself, you can access `payload` directly from the arguments of hooks, access control, validation functions, and similar. This is the simplest way to access Payload in most cases. Most config functions take the `req` (Request) object, which has Payload bound to it (`req.payload`).
 
 Example:
 
@@ -64,22 +40,58 @@ const afterChangeHook: CollectionAfterChangeHook = async ({ req: { payload } })
 }
 ```
 
-### Local options available
+#### Importing it
 
-You can specify more options within the Local API vs. REST or GraphQL due to the server-only context that they are
-executed in.
+If you want to import Payload in places where you don't have the option to access it from function arguments or `req`, you can import it and initialize it.
 
-| Local Option       | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `collection`       | Required for Collection operations. Specifies the Collection slug to operate against.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| `data`             | The data to use within the operation. Required for `create`, `update`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| `depth`            | [Control auto-population](/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth) of nested relationship and upload fields.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `locale`           | Specify [locale](/docs/configuration/localization) for any returned documents.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| `fallbackLocale`   | Specify a [fallback locale](/docs/configuration/localization) to use for any returned documents.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| `overrideAccess`   | Skip access control. By default, this property is set to true within all Local API operations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
-| `user`             | If you set `overrideAccess` to `false`, you can pass a user to use against the access control checks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
-| `showHiddenFields` | Opt-in to receiving hidden fields. By default, they are hidden from returned documents in accordance to your config.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `pagination`       | Set to false to return all documents and avoid querying for document counts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
+There are two places to import Payload:
+
+**Option 1 - using HMR, within Next.js**
+
+```ts
+import { getPayloadHMR } from '@payloadcms/next/utilities'
+import config from '@payload-config'
+
+const payload = await getPayloadHMR({ config })
+```
+
+You should import Payload using the first option (`getPayloadHMR`) if you are using Payload inside of Next.js (like route handlers, server components, and similar.) 
+
+This way, in Next.js development mode, Payload will work with Hot Module Replacement (HMR), and as you make changes to your Payload config, your usage of Payload will always be in sync with your changes. In production, `getPayloadHMR` simply disables all HMR functionality so you don't need to write your code any differently. We handle optimization for you in production mode.
+
+If you are accessing Payload via function arguments or `req.payload`, HMR is automatically supported if you are using it within Next.js.
+
+**Option 2 - outside of Next.js**
+
+If you are using Payload outside of Next.js, for example in standalone scripts or in other frameworks, you can import Payload with no HMR functionality.
+
+```ts
+import { getPayload } from 'payload'
+import { importConfig } from 'payload/node'
+
+const config = await importConfig('./payload.config.ts')
+const payload = await getPayload({ config })
+```
+
+Both options function in exactly the same way outside of one having HMR support and the other not. However, when you import your Payload config, you need to make sure that you can import it safely. 
+
+For more information about using Payload outside of Next.js, [click here](/docs/beta/local-api/outside-nextjs).
+
+## Local options available
+
+You can specify more options within the Local API vs. REST or GraphQL due to the server-only context that they are executed in.
+
+| Local Option       | Description  |
+| ------------------ | ------------ |
+| `collection`       | Required for Collection operations. Specifies the Collection slug to operate against. |
+| `data`             | The data to use within the operation. Required for `create`, `update`. |
+| `depth`            | [Control auto-population](/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth) of nested relationship and upload fields. |
+| `locale`           | Specify [locale](/docs/configuration/localization) for any returned documents. |
+| `fallbackLocale`   | Specify a [fallback locale](/docs/configuration/localization) to use for any returned documents. |
+| `overrideAccess`   | Skip access control. By default, this property is set to true within all Local API operations. |
+| `user`             | If you set `overrideAccess` to `false`, you can pass a user to use against the access control checks. |
+| `showHiddenFields` | Opt-in to receiving hidden fields. By default, they are hidden from returned documents in accordance to your config. |
+| `pagination`       | Set to false to return all documents and avoid querying for document counts. |
 | `context`          | [Context](/docs/hooks/context), which will then be passed to `context` and `req.context`, which can be read by hooks. Useful if you want to pass additional information to the hooks which shouldn't be necessarily part of the document, for example a `triggerBeforeChange` option which can be read by the BeforeChange hook to determine if it should run or not. |
 
 _There are more options available on an operation by operation basis outlined below._
@@ -95,7 +107,7 @@ _There are more options available on an operation by operation basis outlined be
 
 The following Collection operations are available through the Local API:
 
-#### Create
+### Create
 
 ```js
 // The created Post document is returned
@@ -127,7 +139,7 @@ const post = await payload.create({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Find
+### Find
 
 ```js
 // Result will be a paginated set of Posts.
@@ -148,7 +160,7 @@ const result = await payload.find({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Find by ID
+### Find by ID
 
 ```js
 // Result will be a Post document.
@@ -164,7 +176,7 @@ const result = await payload.findByID({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Count
+### Count
 
 ```js
 // Result will be an object with:
@@ -180,7 +192,7 @@ const result = await payload.count({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Update by ID
+### Update by ID
 
 ```js
 // Result will be the updated Post document.
@@ -211,7 +223,7 @@ const result = await payload.update({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Update Many
+### Update Many
 
 ```js
 // Result will be an object with:
@@ -249,7 +261,7 @@ const result = await payload.update({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Delete
+### Delete
 
 ```js
 // Result will be the now-deleted Post document.
@@ -265,7 +277,7 @@ const result = await payload.delete({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Delete Many
+### Delete Many
 
 ```js
 // Result will be an object with:
@@ -293,7 +305,7 @@ const result = await payload.delete({
 If a collection has [`Authentication`](/docs/authentication/overview) enabled, additional Local API operations will be
 available:
 
-#### Login
+### Login
 
 ```js
 // result will be formatted as follows:
@@ -310,7 +322,7 @@ const result = await payload.login({
     email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
     password: 'rip',
   },
-  req: req, // pass an Express `req` which will be provided to all hooks
+  req: req, // pass a Request object to be provided to all hooks
   res: res, // used to automatically set an HTTP-only auth cookie
   depth: 2,
   locale: 'en',
@@ -320,7 +332,7 @@ const result = await payload.login({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Forgot Password
+### Forgot Password
 
 ```js
 // Returned token will allow for a password reset
@@ -330,11 +342,11 @@ const token = await payload.forgotPassword({
     // required
     email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
   },
-  req: req, // pass an Express `req` which will be provided to all hooks
+  req: req, // pass a Request object to be provided to all hooks
 })
 ```
 
-#### Reset Password
+### Reset Password
 
 ```js
 // Result will be formatted as follows:
@@ -349,12 +361,12 @@ const result = await payload.resetPassword({
     password: req.body.password, // the new password to set
     token: 'afh3o2jf2p3f...', // the token generated from the forgotPassword operation
   },
-  req: req, // pass an Express `req` which will be provided to all hooks
+  req: req, // pass a Request object to be provided to all hooks
   res: res, // used to automatically set an HTTP-only auth cookie
 })
 ```
 
-#### Unlock
+### Unlock
 
 ```js
 // Returned result will be a boolean representing success or failure
@@ -364,12 +376,12 @@ const result = await payload.unlock({
     // required
     email: 'dev@payloadcms.com',
   },
-  req: req, // pass an Express `req` which will be provided to all hooks
+  req: req, // pass a Request object to be provided to all hooks
   overrideAccess: true,
 })
 ```
 
-#### Verify
+### Verify
 
 ```js
 // Returned result will be a boolean representing success or failure
@@ -383,7 +395,7 @@ const result = await payload.verifyEmail({
 
 The following Global operations are available through the Local API:
 
-#### Find
+### Find
 
 ```js
 // Result will be the Header Global.
@@ -398,7 +410,7 @@ const result = await payload.findGlobal({
 })
 ```
 
-#### Update
+### Update
 
 ```js
 // Result will be the updated Header Global.
@@ -424,109 +436,6 @@ const result = await payload.updateGlobal({
 })
 ```
 
-## Next.js Conflict with Local API
-
-There is a known issue when using the Local API with Next.js version `13.4.13` and higher. Next.js executes within a
-separate child process, and Payload has not been initalized yet in these instances. That means that unless you
-explicitly initialize Payload within your operation, it will not be running and return no data / an empty object.
-
-As a workaround, we recommend leveraging the following pattern to determine and ensure Payload is initalized:
-
-```
-import dotenv from 'dotenv'
-import path from 'path'
-import type { Payload } from 'payload'
-import payload from 'payload'
-import type { InitOptions } from 'payload/config'
-import { seed as seedData } from './seed'
-
-dotenv.config({
-  path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env'),
-})
-
-let cached = (global as any).payload
-
-if (!cached) {
-  cached = (global as any).payload = { client: null, promise: null }
-}
-
-interface Args {
-  initOptions?: Partial<InitOptions>
-  seed?: boolean
-}
-
-export const getPayloadClient = async ({ initOptions, seed }: Args = {}): Promise<Payload> => {
-  if (!process.env.DATABASE_URI) {
-    throw new Error('DATABASE_URI environment variable is missing')
-  }
-  if (!process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET) {
-    throw new Error('PAYLOAD_SECRET environment variable is missing')
-  }
-  if (cached.client) {
-    return cached.client
-  }
-  if (!cached.promise) {
-    cached.promise = payload.init({
-      mongoURL: process.env.DATABASE_URI,
-      secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
-      local: initOptions?.express ? false : true,
-      ...(initOptions || {}),
-    })
-  }
-  try {
-    process.env.PAYLOAD_DROP_DATABASE = seed ? 'true' : 'false'
-    cached.client = await cached.promise
-    if (seed) {
-      payload.logger.info('---- SEEDING DATABASE ----')
-      await seedData(payload)
-    }
-  } catch (e: unknown) {
-    cached.promise = null
-    throw e
-  }
-  return cached.client
-}
-```
-
-To checkout how this works in a project, take a look at
-our [custom server example](https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/examples/custom-server/src/getPayload.ts).
-
-## Example Script using Local API
-
-The Local API is especially useful for running scripts
-
-```ts
-import payload from 'payload'
-import path from 'path'
-import dotenv from 'dotenv'
-
-dotenv.config({
-  path: path.resolve(__dirname, '../.env'),
-})
-
-const { PAYLOAD_SECRET } = process.env
-
-const doAction = async (): Promise<void> => {
-  await payload.init({
-    secret: PAYLOAD_SECRET,
-    local: true, // Enables local mode, doesn't spin up a server or frontend
-  })
-
-  // Perform any Local API operations here
-  await payload.find({
-    collection: 'posts',
-    // where: {} // optional
-  })
-
-  await payload.create({
-    collection: 'posts',
-    data: {},
-  })
-}
-
-doAction()
-```
-
 ## TypeScript
 
 Local API calls will automatically infer your [generated types](/docs/typescript/generating-types).