Document Essentials Best Practices

Starting with a brainstorm session, make an inventory of Hippo Best Practices implemented by Essentials, and make a plan how/where to document those. Then do it.

• Have a standard approach for components to provide a basic rendering in case they need some initial configuration
• Ensure that components do not introduce additional HTML in preview mode, see XYZ (ask Ard)
• How to extend / use the existing components
• Stay up to date with recent CMS releases
• Separate configuration and content bootstrap resources
• Handle page-not-found in case there is no sitemap item matching or the matching sitemap item is missing content.
• Make sure to add a limit when executing queries
• Make use of iterators rather than fetching data in a list
• Provide catalog components with parameter info annotations to allow component management through the channel manager
• Check user input against malicious data
• Use Resource Bundles for static labels (ESSENTIALS-368)