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Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson, Professional Sitecore 8 Development, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2292-8_6

6. Front-End Dev Techniques

Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson2

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)Minnetrista, Minnesota, USA

A Sitecore site without a front-end isn’t much to look at (pun intended). As you can imagine, therefore, front-end development techniques are just as critical to Sitecore success as back-end techniques. We’ve just spent five chapters focusing on back-end, but in this chapter, we turn our focus to the front-end.

Specifically, we need to level set on core front-end principles with Sitecore, such as the building blocks of layouts and placeholders. We breezed over them a few times in previous ...

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