Posts Tagged ‘Headless’

If the benefits of headless CMS were convincing enough in the previous blog post that you decided to give, headless architecture a try, your next step is to find a good CMS platform. Below are some great options to get you started. Let’s examine them:   Sitecore – a fully functional CMS platform Sitecore is an industry-leading CMS combined with […]

For every company that tends to move forward with its customer experience and to form a successful content strategy, content management is one of the foremost imperative forms. You are probably already familiar with traditional content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla and WordPress. But how is headless software different? A headless CMS is an […]

If you ask anyone in the Sitecore community what was the biggest hype of 2022 – there wouldn’t be any other opinion than mentioning XM Cloud. Let’s take a look at this latest and shiny SaaS offering! Content Part 1: Overview, Architecture, Features Part 2: New Tools and Interfaces Part 3: Development with XM Cloud […]

Recently I was giving a talk to a group of wonderful people about the importance of headless development in general and for Sitecore in particular, compared to the old way of doing things with ASPNET MVC. This article will be helpful to marketing people and those on the development side who somehow managed to miss […]

I too often find myself in the technical weeds when talking about headless architectures and Sitecore Headless Services. Talking about things like GraphQL and Search, Proxy Architectures to support gradual migration, and Rendering Host options and edge functions. I don’t think I’ve done a great job of bringing the conversation up a level and helping […]

In this blog-post, we would be looking at how you can create custom Rendering Contents Resolver to customize the rendering output of Sitecore’s Layout Service. Sitecore’s Layout Service is a Headless endpoint which is responsible for providing data of the requested page or rendering in the form of a JSON object. GraphQL to get the […]

Working with a headless website setup sometimes can be challenging. For example, if you insert an image directly into the TinyMCE text editor sometimes (it depends on a lot of factors) you can see the relative path to the server storage where the image is saved. But because it’s a headless setup, the front end […]

What is a headless CMS? A headless CMS is a back-end only content management system (CMS) built from the ground up as a content repository that makes content accessible via a RESTful API or GraphQL API for display on any device. The term “headless” comes from the concept of chopping the “head” (the front end, i.e. the […]

Welcome back to my series on DevOps Best Practices related to Sitecore Headless implementations. In Part 2 we are going to create the build pipelines for our Sitecore and Next.js solutions and see how they can be included in the PR process. If you haven’t checked-out Part 1 yet, I recommend doing so before continuing […]

Welcome to my series on DevOps Best Practices related to Sitecore Headless implementations. In Part 1 we will do a review of Git DMZ Flow and see how to implement the principals in Azure DevOps.   What is Sitecore Headless?  Before we dive into the technical details, let’s align on what Sitecore Headless is. Sitecore […]

Sitecore Headless (formerly JSS) has been around for several years now but with its recent promotion in the Sitecore 10 releases, it is generating more buzz than ever. So as customers begin to evaluate this “new” model and more choose to adopt it, we need to begin defining standards for implementation. This series will outline […]

If you’ve been on Sitecore for at least a few years, you most likely have a custom MVC solution, or you’ve used an accelerator like SXA (hopefully you’re off webforms and XSLT by now).  That solution likely includes custom components and integrations.  That solution may have even survived an upgrade or two. That solution probably […]