Web accessibility is becoming more and more important these days. If you are not used to implementing web accessibility, it sounds difficult. In reality, making website accessible takes only a little bit of effort and knowledge. HTML 5 supports a lot of accessibility functionality if you use the correct tags …

Sitecore 8.2 and above implements dependency injection based on ASP.NET Core DI. Service registration is handled by using the IServiceConfigurator interface. When we opt for third-party DI modules like Simple Injector, you can have your own customised scoped lifetime. This post is a quick reference for service lifetimes when you …

There are a few different ways to implement dependency injection in Sitecore. Once upon a time, the only way to implementing DI was to use third-party libraries like Simple Injector. Since Sitecore 8.2 release, Sitecore includes build in dependency injection based on Microsoft’s Dependency Injection for ASP.NET Core. We can …

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is a game changer for Mobile app development. We can turn our web page into a mobile compatible app with a little bit more effort. Create a manifesto file and write a service worker logic, then your website is a mobile app. Once you create PWA, …

Ok, I created my Android App by using Trusted Web Activities (TWA). I tested my app on the emulator from Android Studio and it looked all good. The app worked fine in the full-screen mode. I published my first PWA app at Google Play and everything looked fine. When I …

If you are going for Sitecore certification exam, this exam prep app can help you to pass the exam. It is a micro-front end made by Preact X and TypeScript and the bundle is hosted in GitHub Pages. Source code for this app is here. (1) Quiz Component (2) On …

I created a node module to retrieve multiple parameters as the parameterName-parameterValue Json object from AWS Parameter Store. It is called aws-ssm-parameters and is available from Npm. The module is namespaced. So, you need to add the namespace @mdhnpm when you install it. npm i @mdhnpm/aws-ssm-parameters The main motivation for creating …

With FakeDb, we can mock content items. Each tree node can be created by the DbItem class. DbItem class has three constructors as below. public DbItem(string name); public DbItem(string name, ID id); public DbItem(string name, ID id, ID templateId); When your code is calling GetItem with the Sitecore.Data.ID object, you …

A NuGet package, Sitecore.FakeDb helps us to test functions that use Sitecore API. It is a mock memory database where you can remove the dependencies and isolate the code. When you create a brand-new test project, setting up FakeDb can be tricky. Installing FakeDb and adding the usual two Sitecore …

Now that we created a cool components with rendering parameters (see Using Rendering Parameters to Inject Data into Hidden Input), we can write a unit test. Sitecore’s Rendering class has a publicly accessible string field called Parameters. This is the rendering parameter string get populated on page rendering. Mocking is …