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Next.js Middleware, taking it for a spin

21 Feb 2022

Recently I had the opportunity to play around with the Next.js Middleware (Beta). Instead of going for the out-of-the-box samples I took upon the challenge to validate the authorization of a user…

Hosting your platform in 2021: serverless, now with extra servers

26 May 2021

Are you in 2021 still waiting on the delivery guy to increase the memory of your webserver? Are there other options, or should we all jump to the latest trend of serverless hosting? Ever since the…

Progressive Web Apps for dummies: what, why, how

01 May 2021

How relevant are progressive web apps today? We often get the question from our customers if they need to invest into making their website a progressive web app. But what is a progressive web app, and…

Jamstack for dummies: what, why, how

06 Jan 2021

In the various roadmap events that our partners held we saw a general trend to a more decoupled approach. An approach that simplifies the architecture of the next generation of digital marketing…

There is a solution for every problem

02 May 2020

Many problems come up and get solved daily in the business world. In a world of solutions how does one discover what the solution is? In our day to day life not everything goes according to plan…

Headless, yet another buzz word?

06 Apr 2020

Headless certainly isn't a new trend in the Content Management landscape but Headless CMSs have been growing stronger and stronger the last couple of years. Many traditional CMS vendors have jumped…

Sitecore JSS placeholders for front-end devs

27 Apr 2019

Even when you are a well practiced front end developer Sitecore Placeholders can be hard to grasp. Let's jump in it. Sitecore placeholders do exactly what their name describe they "hold the place". A…

Adding a rendering parameter to your JSS component

01 Dec 2018

Last time we created our first JSS component. It was a rather basic component which can be the start of a Sitecore JSS page. When you start creating more components you might come across the need to…

Creating your first Sitecore JSS Component

15 Nov 2018

Some of you might have seen the webinar Koen Roos and I did last week "More experimentation and faster time-to-market using Sitecore JavaScript Services". You can still register to see the recorded…

Atomic design principles applied

09 May 2017

Did you ever feel the need to give your sass files a bit more meaning? Then this one is for you. You might have read the book "Atomic Design" from Brad Frost. All the credit of this approach of course…