Recently in a project I was working on, we had the need to cache our clientlibs and have them reliably recache every time there was a change. I looked around and found that there is an ACS AEM Commons tool made for just this purpose. In this post I’ll demonstrate how we went about using …
AEM provides a feature called client libraries to allow for managing CSS and JavaScript in your site. It allows you to bundle your files into one large file so you have fewer requests on your pages. It allows you to minify them to make the download less expensive and faster. It allows you to “categorize” …
Protocol-relative paths The first time I ever heard of protocol-relative URLs (properly called “network-path references”) was back in 2007 in an article by Ned Batchelder, who I know from Freenode’s #python channel. The most common use-case for these URLs are when you want your site to refer to some external resource, such as a stylesheet, …
Hello everyone, in this blog post, we will discuss managing Client Libraries in Adobe Experience Manager (formerly Adobe CQ). We are assuming that you know what ClientLibs are in AEM and how they work, and that you are aware of the dependency and the embed properties of ClientLibs. You should be familiar with how ClientLibs …
The Web used to be a simple place. All you needed to know to build a site was a little HTML and you were good to go. It didn’t take long for browser makers to introduce styles and JavaScript to their products, and eventually developers realized that they could use CSS and JavaScript to make …