Demo Projects

Introduction

Goal

Run a Bloomreach Experience Manager SPA demo project.

Background

Bloomreach provides an example React app to demonstrate the Bloomreach SPA SDKs. To run the example React app, you need a local Bloomreach Experience Manager instance with some configuration and demo content. 

To set up a local Bloomreach Experience Manager demo instance pre-configured for the example React app, use one of the following two options:

• Run the prebuilt Docker image
• Create a local Bloomreach Experience Manager project

Once your Bloomreach Experience Manager instance is up and running, run the example React app.

Run Prebuilt Docker Image

If you want to run a prebuilt demo project you can use this example Docker image:

docker run --net=host bloomreach/xm-spa-example

Create Bloomreach Experience Manager Project

1. Create a project using the Maven archetype.
2. Add the SPA Demo Essentials plugin dependency to essentials/pom.xml:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.onehippo.cms7</groupId>
     <artifactId>hippo-essentials-plugin-spa-demo</artifactId>
     <version>${essentials.version}</version>
   </dependency>
   

3. Build and run your project:

   $ mvn verify
   $ mvn -P cargo.run
   

4. Go to http://localhost:8080/essentials in your browser.

5. Enable enterprise features (see Image 1).
   
   Image 1. Enable showing enterprise features

6. Install the SPA Integration Demo feature (see Image 2).
   
   Image 2. Install SPA Integration Demo feature

7. Stop the project and rebuild and restart it:

   $ mvn verify
   $ mvn -P cargo.run

8. Check http://localhost:8080/essentials/#/installed-features (see Image 3).
   
   Image 3. Request to rebuild the project.

9. Stop the project and rebuild and restart it:

   $ mvn verify
   $ mvn -P cargo.run

10. The project is ready and the CMS can be accessed via http://localhost:8080/cms/.

Run Example React Application

Clone the repository, and build and run the example React application.

$ git clone https://code.onehippo.org/cms-community/bloomreach-spa-sdk.git
$ cd bloomreach-spa-sdk/examples/react-csr

Create a file called .env with the following contents:

PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000
REACT_APP_LIVE_BR_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/site
REACT_APP_LIVE_SPA_BASE_URL=
REACT_APP_PREVIEW_BR_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/site/_cmsinternal
REACT_APP_PREVIEW_SPA_BASE_URL=/site/_cmsinternal?bloomreach-preview=true

Run the React Single Page Application example project locally:

$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ npm run start

The demo React app will be accessible at http://localhost:3000/ and will consume the Page Model JSON API at http://localhost:8080/site/resourceapi/. The app will also be accessible as a channel in the Experience manager (see Image 4).

Image 4. Example React Application in the Experience manager