With the introduction of SXA 9.3 we are introducing the SXA CLI. The CLI (Command Line Interface) is a command line tool that allows you to setup a theme locally and register it with SXA. Before we start installing the CLI locally you need to make sure you have NodeJS installed on your local machine. We are using NPM (Node Package Manager) to install the CLI and all its dependencies. The other dependency is that…
One of the biggest focus areas of the SXA 9.3 release is making SXA more appealing and easier for frontend developers to work with. As a major effort in that, the whole frontend developer workflow is now improved based on feedback we received. What has changed? Everyone who develops with SXA has seen the way themes are implement. A single theme is stored inside the media library alongside with all of it’s files. Meaning that…
One of the features of SXA 9.3 that I am most excited about is the introduction of Scriban. Scriban is the new templating language within SXA 9.3. So why a new templating language? One of the changes that Sitecore 9.3 is introducing is the removal of the current templating engine; NVelocity. The SXA development team needed an altnative and did their research in which they evaluated different templating engines. They concluded that Scriban is one…
