Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components with various technologies, including AEM. It allows frontend developers to develop components in isolation and it captures functional test scenarios for each component. Let’s find out how to setup a new project created with the AEM Project Archetype for use with @storybook/aem. These steps will … Continued
Progressive web app (PWA) is simply a term used to describe websites that use certain web APIs, the most important of which are the service worker API and the Cache API. Simply put, a service worker is code that runs before the request for the page document is sent to the network and can intercept … Continued
Testing and developing an Adobe Experience Manager dispatcher in a local environment can be a challenge. Configuring Apache on a local computer always seems to be unique to the operating system. Where is Apache installed? Where are the configuration files? Where is the error log? What version is installed? What do you do if you … Continued
Apache Server Side Includes (SSI) are a way to mix cached secured, secured, and dynamic content on the same page without the end user knowing the difference. This is accomplished by having a tag in the form of a specialized HTML comment in the markup of the page that your Apache web server will replace … 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
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
