Sitecore Symposium 2018: Learning to SPEAK

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Learning to SPEAK was lead by Julia Gavrilova and Olga Kogen from XCentium.  They gave a little history of SPEAK and demoed a couple apps they have written.  I’ve got some ideas for apps to build in Sitecore, and now I’m ready to get started!

What is SPEAK

• Sitecore Process Enablement & Accelerator Kit
• Toolkit to build UI in Sitecore
• Consistent UI
  • Sitecore components
  • Custom apps

SPEAK Versions

• Version 1
  • Compatible with Sitecore 7.1+
  • Requires Sitecore Rocks tool for Visual Studio
• Version 2
  • Compatible with Sitecore 8.1+
  • Requires Sitecore Rocks tool for Visual Studio
• Version 3
  • Compatible with Sitecore 9+
  • Uses Angular 4
    • You can use any exiting Angular 4 components

Where to Start

• Read more about SPEAK at https://doc.sitecore.net/speak
• Download the sample project

Create a SPEAK 3 Application

• Switch to core db
• Browse to /sitecore/content/your apps in the content tree
• Create a definition item for your app
• Create a dictionary for translation items
  • Allows you to content manage text in your app
• Create your Angular 4 application
  • Use Sitecore specific tags
    • <sc-page>
    • <sc-global-header>
    • <table scTable>
    • <article scPageContent>
  • ng build
    • Creates dist folder
      • Copy to www/sitecore/client/applications/appname
      • Folder name must match definition item name or your app will not work

 
Check out the rest of my notes from Sitecore Symposium 2018!