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May 1, 2020

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JSSYour data, your way

Nick Hills // Sitecore MVP // Principal Developer - Valtech

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What’s the plan?

• Out the box Sitecore data

• ‘Zero Sitecore deployments’

• Adding custom data

• Optimization techniques

• Monitoring the system

Building a page using JSS

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Consuming App

SitecoreLayout Service / GraphQL

AWS Lambda

Azure Functions

System X

Customer

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‘Out the box’ Sitecore dataAka my first JSS page

Layout ServiceChained Content

Resolvers

Content Resolvers

Context Extensions

Graph QL

Dynamic Content

Resolvers

Consuming App

Sitecore

AWS Lambda

Azure Functions

System X

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Contents Resolvers

• Create a Json Rendering and attach a Rendering Contents Resolver

• In solution inherit RenderingContentsResolver

• Customize behaviour in c#

return new{

name = "Contents Resolvers",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = true,sitecoreChanges = new[] { "code", "content" },

};

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Context Extensions

• Use cases

• Navigation // Header // Footer

• In solution inherit JssGetLayoutServiceContextProcessor

• Filter behaviour in config or c#

return new{

name = "Context Extensions",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = true,sitecoreChanges = new[] { "code", "config" },

};

Layout Service Variables Querystring / Context

• Site (sc_site)

• Route (item)

• Language (sc_lang)

• Database (sc_database)

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Chained Contents Resolvers

• Create a Json Rendering and attach a Rendering Contents Resolver

• Merge the default output with your custom content

return new{

name = "Chained Contents Resolvers",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = true,sitecoreChanges = new[] { "code", "content" },

};

Demo time

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Zero* Sitecore deploymentsYou what?!? I thought deploying Sitecore was easy?

* Code free deployments

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Integrated Graph QL

• Configure a GraphQL endpoint

• Create a Json Rendering and set a Component GraphQL Query

return new{

name = "Integrated Graph QL",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = false,sitecoreChanges = new[] { "content" },

};

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Connected Graph QL

• Configure a GraphQL endpoint

• Create queries in your consuming application

return new{

name = "Connected Graph QL",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = false,sitecoreChanges = new[] { },

};

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Dynamic Content Resolvers

• Create a Json Rendering and set a Parameters Query

• [--datasource:fields:*]

• [/sitecore/content/jss-your-data-your-way/Datasource Examples/Datasource Example:fields:*]

• [/sitecore/content/Home:fields:Text->Remapped Text]

• Casting, Field remapping, Wildcards, Children, Lists, Linked items, Aggregation

return new{

name = "Dynamic Content Resolvers",sitecoreDeploymentNeeded = false,sitecoreChanges = new[] { "content" },

};

Demo time

Performance

considerations

Consuming App

SitecoreLayout Service / GraphQL

AWS Lambda

Azure Functions

System X

Customer

Caching options

SSR Consuming App

SitecoreLayout Service / GraphQL

AWS Lambda

Azure Functions

System X

Customer

Monitoring the system

1 2 3 4

1. 200 Rates, 4XX Rates, 5XX Rates, Request counts2. Call times (ms - av, max, %iles), site/lang/url breakdown,

cached vs uncached rates3. 200 Rates, 4XX Rates, 5XX Rates, Request counts4. Page load times & other browser metrics

Monitoring the system

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JSS – Your Data, Your Way

Nick Hills

1. Any source of data is viable

2. Caching is your friend

3. Monitor the seams

https://github.com/boro2g/JssYourDataYourWay

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