Sitecore® Helix is a set of official guidelines and
recommended practices for Sitecore Development.
Sitecore created the Helix architecture as a recommended way
of building websites and created Habitat to demonstrate it.
Habitat is an example project that follows the Helix
principles and recommended practices.
Habitat is a modular architecture, an approach to take to
achieve an easily maintainable solution over time.
Why Helix?
• Set of
architecture conventions and guidelines that describe how to apply
recommended
technical designprinciples to a Sitecore project.
• Secure
implementations in a future-proof way by architecting them as maintainable
and
extensible business-centric modules
•
Development process recommendations to make it as easy as possible to build,
test,
extend, and maintain Sitecore implementations
How to Configure
Habitat :-
Special thanks to Martina Welander
for this nice video, which explain how to install and configure Sitecore
habitat.
Step 1: Download Habitat from github http://github.com/sitecore/habitat
Step 2: Run Sitecore instance 8.2 and name to your Website (habitat.dev.local)
Step 3: Extract all files in d: or c: drive.
for example
D:\Habitat-master\
Open the Habitat project in VS2015.
Step 4: Change the path on below files:
1) /Solution/Configuration/z.Habitat.DevSettings.config
2) /Solution/Configuration/gulp-config.js
3) /Solution/Configuration /publishsettings.targets
The default settings
for Habitat are
URL: http://habitat.dev.local/
Location: C:\Websites\Habitat.dev.local\
Step 5:
- Download Node.js
- Open command window as an administrator go to the root of the solution repository and run 'npm install'
You can upgrade to
the latest version of npm using: npm
install -g npm@latest
Step 6: Run Unicorn
“PM> Install-Package Unicorn.”
Step 7: Task Runner Explorer pane in Visual Studio 2015. or ctrl + alt + Backspace
default task
will execute all the configuration and building tasks for the solution. If for
some reason setup fails, it is possible to run the install tasks one by one:
Step 7: Sync all items http://habitat.sitecore.net/unicorn.aspx
If xDB not installed you will get below error. After that install
and run mongoDB.
Happy Sitecore Habitat :-)
I hope this will
be helpful for you, if you face any error/issues; feel free to
comment your thought or suggestion.
