Converting a Sitecore Website to a Single-Page App
Wanting to convert your Sitecore website to a single-page app with minimal changes to your architecture? This blog should help you get started.
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Posts of Jeff
Please note that some posts are in German, some in English.
Sitecore And Docker In Love – Using SQL Express Containers
I’ve recently been playing around with the Docker SQL Express image to figure out how I can use it in my Sitecore development and testing. Installation was a breeze, and once I got it playing nicely with my local Sitecore website, provisioning Sitecore DBs was a walk in the park.
Read moreSitecore Habitat : A Short Intro
It is an exciting time to be a Sitecore developer these days now that Habitat and Helix are out to fill in what we all felt was missing from Sitecore all those years: patterns and standards.
Read moreTransform Your Sitecore Config Patches Using Build Targets
A Sitecore config patch that is environment-server-specific will definitely require different versions, therefore, config transformation is necessary to avoid manual modification. Though, by default, transformation is only supported for the Web.config file there are many tools available that will help you achieve this. However, most of them require that your config transforms do not go beyond the limits of your configurations.
Read moreTrack Client-side Events in Sitecore MVC
Tracking events triggered on your site is obviously of vital importance to measure your visitors' behaviour and level of engagement. Sitecore does a good job of tracking events associated to a page that are triggered upon page visit - but in reality, we are more concerned about tracking client-side events especially since almost everything happens on the client-side these days due to the emergence of JavaScript frameworks like Angular and Ember.
Read moreQuery Sitecore Items in Web API
Building client-side web apps is the new trend, which means a lot of XHR requests to the back-end. Luckily, Sitecore provides a highly configurable Item Web API to help you with querying items from the client-side. But if you want results that are bound to your models and end-points not containing your query, then you will resort to querying items against the context database using ASP.Net Web API... only that... it doesn't work out of the box.
Read moreRendering Sublayouts in Sitecore MVC
There's no denying that Web Forms is dying and MVC has taken its place... at least in my opinion. The Sitecore guys know it, and it's evident that there has been a major shift to the latter. If you're starting out as a Sitecore developer chances are you're gonna start with MVC. But what if you've already started with Web Forms and want to do the transition without giving up your precious sublayouts just yet?
Read moreMocking Sitecore using MS Fakes
Mocking Sitecore has been a tough nut to crack since Sitecore lacks the necessary interfaces that common mocking frameworks need, which really screws up automated testing for a lot of us. For that we turn to isolation frameworks like TypeMock and Justmock which unfortunately come with a huge price tag.
Read moreBuild-sync your local ASP.Net site the fast way
With Visual Studio's publish functionality you can conveniently preview how your web project behaves and looks like on your local IIS web server. With that said, I believe publishing makes sense only if you've done significant changes since, depending on how big your project is, it may take some time to sync your deployable project files with the web site root folder, and deploying new DLLs and config files will definitely restart your website and flush your caches.
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But what if you just did a tiny update and just wanted to sync the changed file(s)?