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Competence Team Lead Custom Application Development @ Macaw
2022 Technology Sitecore Most Valuable Professional
2021 Technology Sitecore Most Valuable Professional
When you run an npm script that has not exit code 0, an annoying set of useless error lines is shown. But there are some options to get rid of them!
With custom tools reporting problems like errors and warnings it is nice if they end up in the "Problems" panel in Visual Studio Code. In this post I describe how to achieve this.
Get chalk working with TypeScript, get color output with chalk in Lerna.
Running Sitecore JSS headless frontend with Next.js on Azure with all its CSR, SSR, SSG, and ISG goodness could look like this...
Running Next.js on Azure with all its CSR, SSR, SSG, and ISG goodness. And as an example run also Sitecore JSS on it!
Want to use the power of Gulp within your NodeJS application, instead of using the Gulp CLI and a gulpfile.js file? I finally found out how...
Processing multipart/form-data containing both fields, files and images is not as easy as it seems to be in a NodeJS Azure function with HttpTrigger. But it can be done, and I will show you how!
Netlify functions are a powerful beast for all your API needs. But what if I want to return as soon as possible from my API call to keep my web UI responsive, but still need to do something like sending out an e-mail? Enter the "classic" function style that makes this possible.
Sitecore SXA is a great way forward in structuring the way of building Sitecore web sites, providing a set of standard renderings and provide an editing experience for the web site maintainers. But sooner than later you want to extend/replace the out-of-the-box set of renderings, calling in the front-end developers to do their magic. At that moment there are many ways they can do their work, and in this post, I will describe in what is in my opinion the optimal way for performance, SEO, front-end developer experience, and separation of concerns.
Creating custom renderings can be done completely without adding C# code. In this post, we explore how to create a new SXA Toolbox section and a new rendering through the Sitecore web interface.
When you look at the out-of-the-box Sitecore SXA components you can see that the Sitecore SXA team writes most SXA components using jQuery and a small utility API called XA (eXperience Accelerator). In this post, I will dissect how Sitecore writes components and I will show you how to write a simple clock component in TypeScript using the XA API.
Mark van Aalst provides a great "no C# code" SXA sample project with the SXA.Styleguide project available on Github. In this post I describe how to get this project up and running on your local Sitecore 9.3 installation.
After investing a lot of time and effort in working with Sitecore SXACLI and creating enhancements on the standard SXACLI tooling I decided that it was time for a different approach. Please meet SXA Umbrella!
If you are still one of those losers like me that install their Sitecore 9.3 on their local machine with the Sitecore Install Assistant (SIA) instead of in a fancy set of docker containers using Docker Compose, and if you are an even bigger loser (like me) that you mess up your Sitecore installation or even worse forgot your Sitecore admin password, welcome to this life-saver post to uninstall your installation in seconds!
When you have an npm script that does use a NodeJS library (through gulp for example) that does web request that you want to monitor with Fiddler, checkout this simple script!
When you get this annoying "sgen.exe" error, you can use this fix!
To understand the way Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) works, how components are built and theming is done you need to do some deep-diving. In this blog post I describe the best way to do this deep dive using the creative exchange.
In my Sitecore 9.3 SXA CLI endeavors I find myself searching for the internal field names of Sitecore items so I can use them in my Scriban templates. Using this remote PowerShell script you can look up the item fields of any Sitecore item.
I write blogposts on my own blogging platform, because I want to be the owner of my own content. I'm also a fan of https://dev.to as a great developer community blogging platform. Fortunately https://dev.to allows and supports cross posting...
PowerApps Portals is positioned as a low-code platform. Built on top of the Dynamics and the underlying Common Data Services (CDS) it enables the "citizen" developer to create public facing websites with support for logged-in users. Underlying the WYSIWYG editing GraphQL is used to do updates on the content and configuration of the portal.
Manage your SXA 9.3 theme under source control instead of as artifacts under the `Media Library/Themes` folder using the SXA CLI - make your front-end developers happy!
I really tried hard. But Azure - you failed me!
When you need to request files from GitHub with the correct mime-types GitHub itself is not the best place.
Umbrella for Sitecore JSS is our vision on how a website should be developed and hosted while using the JSS SDK and Sitecore as a headless CMS.
Use a custom Node based server to render Sitecore 9.1 JSS pages.
At my company we use TypeScript for front-end development where possible. In my first steps in using JSS I wanted to build my first component in TypeScript, which did not work out of the box. In this post I describe how I got ypeScript compilation working.
This weblog is created with GatsbyJS and after build results in a static website that can be hosted anywhere. I host my weblog on a Microsoft Azure static website. In this post I provide links to how to set up an Azure static website, and how to automate the deployment based on commits to the Github repository.
That mandatory first blog post on my own "blogging platform". After blogging for years on http://weblogs.asp.net/soever and some endeavors with the Medium blogging platform.
Given an old Git repo, pull out changed files into a zip file.