Front-end development

Introduction

For front-end developers, integrating with Content SaaS involves the following aspects:

Enabling the SPA to consume content and configuration stored in and managed through Content SaaS, in order to deliver them to the end-user in a site or app UI.
Integrating the page preview and editing capabilities of the Experience manager app in the SPA such that Site Editors can control the content and structure of the pages driven by the SPA without a need for a front-end developer to deploy a new version of the SPA.

The Delivery API and SPA SDK are the tools provided to make both aspects as easy as possible.

API

The Delivery API provides REST endpoints for front-end applications to retrieve JSON representations of:

A list of available channels
Pages in a channel, including all the components, content items, and menus of which those pages are comprised
A specific document in the context of a channel

SDK

Bloomreach provides an SPA SDK for integrating SPAs and other JavaScript front-end applications with Content SaaS Delivery API and the preview and editing capabilities of the Experience manager application.

The SDK is the preferred and the only supported way to integrate the Content SaaS platform with any application. Using the SDK ensures:

Security and bug fixes
Support when encountering problems
Support for new features as they added to Content SaaS
Out-of-the-box for the preview and editing capabilities of the Experience manager app

The SDK supports any Javascript application and provides a framework-independent SPA SDK package as well as framework-specific packages for Angular, React, and Vue.

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Bloomreach discourages custom front-end integrations that forgo using the SPA SDK. While possible, this approach is not supported by Bloomreach and is not guaranteed to work with future changes to the platform.

Introduction

API

SDK

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