Understanding Development Approaches: A Sitecore Outlook
Designing, building, and implementing top-notch experiences not only requires a great deal of planning, strategy, and time – it also requires the right digital experience platform (DXP) and the right development approach for your business needs.
JSS Marketing Automation was lead by Perficient’s own Corey Smith and Rick Bauer. The session started with attendees visiting a url to choose their favorite type of music. They showed an entire JSS application with some basic analytics and goal tracking.
Building a JSS app
- JSS enables rich front end UIs
- Makes your page feel faster and more native
- After the initial page load, only loads the part of the page that change
- Integrates with Angular, Vue, and React
- Would .Net MVC ever go the way of web forms as we move away from server side rendering? Interesting though.
- Disconnected mode
- You do not need a windows machine or a live Sitecore instance to begin development for your site
- Can run on docker, linux, or node
- Can store basic content in .yml files
- Connected mode
- Can connect to marketing tools
- Campaigns
- Goal tracking
- Can user personalization and a/b testing tools
- Does not support Sitecore Forms at the moment
- Can connect to marketing tools
Gotchas
- Cookie tracking
- Automatically enabled in JSS layout services
- Fetch webapi call
- Must add “credentials: ‘same-origin'” to send cookies
- Anti-forgery Token
- JSS does not have this feature natively
- Microsoft provides an example using javascript
- Graph QL
- There are not Json Renderings
- You can set the graphql query to get your json data
- Sitecore now has an Experience Graph Browser so you can craft your query
Find the rest of my notes from Sitecore Symposium 2018
