Sitecore User Group Bangalore | November 18, 2017

LET’S EXPLORE SITECORE HELIX

Gopikrishna Gujjula
@gopikreddy
www.gopigujjula.com

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 TODAY’S AGENDA

1. Sitecore Helix?
2. Explore the Helix principles
3. Layers, and Dependencies
4. Foundation, Feature, and Project
5. Sitecore Habitat
6. Demo

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DEVELOPMENT OR MAINTENANCE
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What is Helix?

“Helix is a set of overall design principles and conventions for Sitecore

development.”

Principles Conventions
Tells you why Tells you how

Examples Tools
Shows you Guides you

HELIX INTRODUCTION
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Dependencies

DEPENDENCIES
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Helix Principles

1. Stable Dependency Principle

2. Acyclic Dependencies Principle
3. Stable Abstractions Principle
4. Common Closure Principle
5. Common Reuse Principle
6. Release-Reuse Equivalency Principle

HELIX PRINCIPLES
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Layers

LAYERS
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Foundation Layer

 Most stable layer in the solution

 Interactions with third party libraries.
 Can contain Solution-specific business logic available to multiple features
 No solution-specific presentation elements. (no Views)
 One foundation module can depend on another foundation module. But be
ware of Acyclic Dependencies Principle

FOUNDATION LAYER
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Feature Layer

 Contains concrete features of the solution as understood by the business

owners
 Ex: news, articles, website search
 Expressed as seen in the business domain of the solution and not by
technology
 Ensures that changes in one feature do not cause changes anywhere else.
 One Feature module must never depend on another Feature module

FEATURE LAYER
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Project Layer

 The Project layer provides the context of the solution

 Stitches together all of the features into a cohesive solution
 Brings together the concrete graphical design

PROJECT LAYER
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Templates Types

Template Type Can have a page layout? Exists in which layers

Interface template No Feature or Foundation

Page Type template Yes Project

Datasource template No Project

Settings template No Feature or Foundation

Folder template No All

Rendering Parameter Template No Feature or Foundation

TEMPLATE TYPES
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PROJECT LAYER
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Sitecore Habitat

 Habitat is a real 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.

SITECORE HABITAT
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References
 http://helix.sitecore.net/
 Helix/Habitat Workshop Videos
 Jason Wilkerson – Sitecore Helix Architecture
 https://github.com/sitecore/habitat/wiki

REFERENCES
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THANK YOU!

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Development is tough,
maintenance is easy
INTRODUCTION
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What is Helix?

“Helix is a set of overall design principles and conventions for Sitecore

development.”

HELIX INTRODUCTION
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Helix Principles

1. Stable Dependency Principle

2. Common Closure Principle
3. Acyclic Dependencies Principle
4. Stable Abstractions Principle
5. Release-Reuse Equivalency Principle
6. Common Reuse Principle

HELIX PRINCIPLES
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Dependencies

High Coupling Low Coupling

DEPENDENCIES
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Templates

Template Type Can have a page layout? Exists in which layers

Interface template No Feature or Foundation

Page type template Yes Project

Datasource template No Project

Settings template No Feature or Foundation

Folder templates No All

PROJECT LAYER
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Sitecore Community

Sitecore Slack Channel

Sitecore Stack exchange
Sitecore Hackathon
Catching Exceptions
https://coresampler.fireside.fm/

SITECORE COMMUNITY
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