Messing up your page layout with a fun Razor mistake
Sometimes it's the simplest things that can trip up development work. A case in point is a bug ticket I got handed recently, which I think shows the need to understand your tools when writing code. Read on to avoid an interesting mistake with code flow in Razor views...
Using the htmx framework with Sitecore MVC
I'm not much of a front-end person. While I can do JavaScript and CSS if I need to, I tend to have to spend quite a bit of time in Google remembering all the key facts. But every so often I find myself needing to do some client-side code, so anything that can make that job easier seems like an interesting idea. Recently I came across the htmx framework - which offers a way to do common AJAX-like dynamic front-end tasks with little ceremony, and pretty much zero JavaScript. So I figured I should have a hack about and see if it's of any use with the sort of "traditional" Sitecore I'm confident with...
An interesting side effect of compiled views
I read a blog post earlier this week that talked about the benefits of compiling your View files to increase performance in Sitecore applications. Reading that post (which
I stupidly failed to keep track of the link to, so can't reference it now
the comments pointed me back to) reminded me of an interesting issue that came up on a project I was looking at recently. If you're interested in the raw performance of your Sitecore sites, you might want to consider this as well when you're planning your views:
