As part of Sitecore’s drive to support developers building optimized applications for XM Cloud, we’re proud and excited to announce the first beta release of Content SDK. This new SDK not only extracts the functionality of JSS designed for XM Cloud development but also makes that functionality simpler to build with and maintain.
When you build an app using Content SDK, you’ll get all the packages and services you need to support your XM Cloud environment. This vastly reduces the size and complexity of your template apps, and you no longer need to remember which parts of JSS are necessary for XM Cloud. The apps you create using the Content SDK’s Next.js starter template require minimal decision-making and fine-tuning, but you’ll find them significantly easier to adapt to your needs.
In line with our focus on simplicity, we’ve shifted focus away from the XM-centric Experience Editor to enable Content SDK to keep pace with the ever-growing feature set of XM Cloud Pages, which is integrated out of the box with Content SDK. As a result, the chromes integration necessary to integrate with Experience Editor has been removed from Content SDK, resulting in further code optimizations.
Throughout the entire SDK, we’ve improved naming conventions, cleaned up code, and removed other things that are no longer necessary. We’ve also created new documentation for Content SDK and initiated ongoing improvements to existing JSS documentation. The new docs include a comprehensive guide for migrating your existing JSS apps to the new Content SDK architecture.
We're looking forward to hearing your feedback for this beta release. You can share your thoughts via a GitHub pull request or in the XM Cloud community Slack channel.
We know you’ll love using our new Content SDK, so why wait? Dive into the documentation and start building today!