Saad Ansari (Sitecore Sam)
I am Saad Ansari, #Sitecore #MVP 2019 - 2020, UI/UX, Full Stack & Sitecore Developer. Co-Founder and Speaker of #SUGPAK Pakistan. Photographer and Music lover. A tech geek who loves to delve into new Technologies.
Exploring the Sitecore Helix, Helixbase and Habitat
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Saad Ansari
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Today's Agenda
- Sitecore Helix
- Definitions in Sitecore Helix
- Architecture Principle
- Dependencies
- Inheritance
- Template Types
- Modules
- Layers
- Sitecore Habitat
- Sitecore Helixbase
- Helix vs Habitat vs Helixbase
- Demo
SITECORE Helix
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WHAT IS HELIX
Helix is a set of overall design principles for Sitecore Development. It is a set of official guidelines and best practices for implementing Sitecore
- Fuelling fast paced Sitecore development
- Organize features and components in folders
- Loosly Coupled Dependencies between modules
- Sitecore support availibility
- Future development standard
DEFINITIONS IN SITECORE HELIX
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DEFINITIONS IN SITECORE HELIX
- Module
- Solution
- Project
- Serialization
- Assets
- Dictionary
- Tenant
- Site
- Website
- Implementation
ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES
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DEPENDENCIES
Uncontrolled Dependencies,
Tight Coupling
Controlled Dependencies,
Loose Coupling
A solution where dependencies are not controlled and with high coupling between the various parts
Inheritance
Template types
- Interface template (interface for solution logic)
- Page type template (pages of the website)
- Datasource template (renderings as a datasource)
- Settings template (configuration or business logic)
- Folder templates (scaffolding the content structure)
Define a number of different logical template types, to separate the purposes of the templates in the solution
MODULES
- Agile Software Development by Robert C. Martin
- N-Layered Architecture
- Business-centric modules
- Principle against traditional software conventions
- Component-based Architecture
- Common Closure Principle
- Grouped modules in layers
The concept of modules in Helix is derived from the concept of components in Component-based Architecture
LAyers
- Project Layer
- Feature Layer
- Foundation Layer
- Dependency flow
- Modular Architecture
- Physically implementation in filesystem
Foundation Layer
- Most stable layer in the solution
- Interactions with third party libraries.
- Solution-specific business logic available to multiple features
- No solution-specific presentation elements. (no Views)
- One foundation module can depend on another foundation module.
FEATURE Layer
- Contains concrete features of the solution as understood by the business owners
Ex: banners, articles, website search
- Expressed as seen in the business domain of the solution and not by technology
- Independent of changes, the changes in one feature do not cause changes anywhere else.
- One Feature module must never rely on another Feature module
PROJECT Layer
- The Project layer provides the context of the solution
- Stitches together all of the features into a solution
- Brings together the concrete graphical design
- Multiple websites can be added in the solution
- Reusable JavaScripts can be included
- Layouts, Sub-layouts and Partials can be added
- Scripts and Styles can be put as a partials renderings
What is Habitat
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WHAT IS Habitat
Helix provide a set of guidelines for your Sitecore projects. It is a Sitecore project implemented on the Sitecore Experience Platform using Helix.
It is an example that allows developers to see how Helix is applied and lets developers experience a project based on these principles.
- Provides pre-built and tested set of common modules
- Improve the efficiency of your projects
- Reduce costs and time to market
- Future Sitecore standard for development
- Easy to work on convention-based projects with minimal training
What is HelixBASE
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HELIXBASE
Helixbase is a solution base set up following the design principles for Sitecore Development. It is using the set of official guidelines and best practices for implementing Sitecore.
- Unicorn
- Glass Mapper
- Bootstrap
- Native dependency injection
- Generic content repositories
- 301 redirects
- Version trimming rules engine
- Search Templates computed index field
- Non admin Item Unlock
- Auto unlocks items when a user is deleted
- Integration with helix-publishing-pipeline
- Publish-on-build
Structure
VISUAL STUDIO STRUCTURE
SITECORE STRUCTURE
Difference Between Helix, Habitat and Helixbase
VS
VS
Helix is a set of overall design principles
Habitat is the implemention of Sitecore solution based on Helix design principles
Helix is a base solution that can be used for starting a new project
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DEMO
THANK YOU
Saad Ansari
Full Stack & Sitecore Developer
@isaadansari
@isaadansari
@isaadansari
isaadansari.com
Exploring the Sitecore Helix, Habitat and Helixbase
By Saad Ansari (Sitecore Sam)
Exploring the Sitecore Helix, Habitat and Helixbase
Exploring the Sitecore Helix, Habitat and Helixbase
