Pattern libraries are useful tools that help assist with the organization and swift development of patterns. A pattern library that is driven via Handlebars templating can be greatly enhanced by using layout blocks to template and nest patterns with. In particular, the handlebars-layouts library can be used for this reason. We’ll review the essentials for handlebars-layouts in this post.
In this blog post, we’ll use a simple React app to access content fragment JSON data exposed via a content fragment API. For this example, you will need to set up movie content fragments detailed within the AEM Content Fragments in the Wild and AEM Content Fragments as an API blog posts to generate the … Continued
One of the many features of Adobe Experience Manager are content fragments. With these you can create schemas, author headless content, and distribute that content to various channels. In the previous blog post we looked into setting up content fragments for use as AEM page level components. This time we will look into enabling content fragments … Continued
One of the many features of Adobe Experience Manager are content fragments. With these you can create schemas, author headless content, and distribute that content to various channels. When implementing functionality with content fragments there are four main approaches you can take: Content fragment -> Core component -> Add style options Content fragment -> Access … Continued
In my previous post I provided some considerations for integrating a JAMstack app with a content management system. In this post I will follow up with how to use Adobe Experience Manager to distribute content to a JAMstack app. AEM will act as a headless CMS serving content to a site generator. One of the … Continued
When unit testing you might trust your technologies and frameworks. You might feel comfortable assuming that using the standard unit testing technologies for a particular technology stack will be a net benefit. However there are times where you might be considering unit testing in particular scenarios with specific technologies that aren’t quite as well proven. … Continued
It is often assumed that static site generators have limitations that server side rendering or client side rendering is necessary to get beyond. Single page applications, progressive web apps, engaging and dynamic UI’s, integrations with databases and content management systems; these cannot be used with a statically generated site can they? They certainly can. One … Continued
As an AEM developer attending my very first Adobe Summit this year, I was given the chance to take a deep dive into some of the newest and cutting edge features that Adobe recently released or plans on releasing with the upcoming AEM 6.5. One of the newer features that caught my attention is AEM’s … Continued
ICF Next maintains several open source libraries for the Adobe Experience Manager platform. In anticipation of the release of AEM version 6.5, we’ve updated our libraries (detailed below) to provide preliminary support for the upcoming 6.5 release in addition to backward compatibility with AEM versions 6.3 and 6.4. Historically, these libraries have been coupled to … Continued
Websites that work offline. How does that work? One of the newer features of the web platform is the Service Worker API. Service workers sit between a web page and the network and are capable of intercepting all the requests coming into or out from the web page. In conjunction with the Cache API you can … Continued
