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Integrating CrafterCMS with BitBucket for Better DevOps

Content authoring and software development are both a major part of producing today?s digital experiences. Unfortunately, development support is not something traditional CMS platforms handle very well at scale. CrafterCMS, a 100% open source CMS platform that includes a Git-based repository designed to handle not only authoring but also DevOps seamlessly. We call this seamless collaboration between devops and authors DevContentOps?.

Integrating CrafterCMS with GitHub for Better DevOps

Content authoring and software development are both a major part of producing today?s digital experiences. Unfortunately, development support is not something traditional CMS platforms handle very well at scale. CrafterCMS, a 100% open source CMS platform that includes a Git-based repository designed to handle not only authoring but also DevOps seamlessly. We call this seamless collaboration between devops and authors DevContentOps?.

Building and Optimizing Multi-Channel Digital Experiences

Over the last few years, the internet has undergone a tremendous amount of fundamental change in its landscape, and we are now entering into a new reality with today?s Web. This change is driven by five major trends:

Integrate CrafterCMS with Jenkins to Automate DevOps: Code Forward, Content Back Process

Great DevOps helps us build better software products faster. One of the key elements of DevOps is automation within the development process across lower development environments.  Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis and many other platforms like them a

CrafterCMS: Custom Styles in Your RTE

rafter CMS?s Rich Text Editor (RTE) applies your styles right in line. There?s no need to save and preview before you can see your changes.

Integrating CrafterCMS with GitLab for Better DevOps

Content authoring and software development are both a major part of producing today?s digital experiences. Learn how to integrate CrafterCMS with your GitLab based source control and development process.

CMS for NodeJS: Using CrafterCMS Javascript SDK on the Server with Node JS

In this blog, we will focus on the language-specific bindings for Javascript, the CrafterCMS Javascript SDK applied on the server side with Node JS. A deep dive on the Javascript SDK and architecture can be found in this blog post: Introducing CrafterCMS Javascript SDK

Using CrafterCMS. Github and Two-Factor Authentication

Crafter?s Git based CMS supports developers working against remote repositories like Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, and others. Many organizations that use Github enforce a two-factor authentication for developers.  This article shows you how t

Using War Overlays with Crafter Engine

Crafter Engine, the delivery component of CrafterCMS is completely programmable with scripted Groovy.  You never have to write a lick of Java if you don?t want to.  Even dependencies can be managed with Ivy and Grapes. That said, from time

CMS for SPAs (1 of 4): Are Single Page Applications and Headless CMS a Slam Dunk?

From web-based applications like Gmail, Instagram, and Google Maps to websites like The New York Times and Facebook, real-world examples of Single Page Applications (SPA) are everywhere you look. Developers have been turning to SPA frameworks and architectures to create better, more usable, richer applications for their users. Nearly every Content Management System (CMS) out there purports to support SPA frameworks and architectures. In this blog series, we?ll look at SPA use in the CMS space to learn more about what?s working, what?s not and what we can do about it. Let?s jump in.

Content Management Meets DevOps (Part 2 of 2) How a Git-based CMS Supports Continuous Integration and Delivery

As we learned in Part 1 of this series: Content Authoring and Publishing; development and content authoring are both a major part of producing today?s digital experiences. Unfortunately, development support is not something traditional

Content Management Meets DevOps (Part 1 of 2) How a Git-based CMS Improves Content Authoring and Publishing

Traditional CMS platforms based on SQL and JCR repositories have begun to show major signs of weakness in keeping up with today?s demands for a high rate of innovation and rapid scalable deployment on modern elastic architectures. This is nowhere mor