Sitecore JSS Series for Developer: How to Connect to Sitecore Instance (2 of 5)

I hope you had a pleasant time in the first tutorial. How to Setup Sitecore JSS.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to Connect our app built with Sitecore JSS to our Sitecore Instance

1. How to setup Sitecore JSS
2. How to connect to Sitecore Instance
3. How to build a functioning Sitecore JSS app
4. How to deploy Sitecore JSS app to Sitecore
5. How to deploy to your Sitecore JSS site to Netlify with Sitelify

Now since we have setup our sample application, and created a configuration we can continue.

Let’s go ahead and deploy the configuration file to Sitecore.

jss deploy config

Now let’s deploy the app to Sitecore. More information about Sitecore JSS CLI

jss deploy app -c -d

Let’s navigate to Content Editor and view our items in the Content Tree

At this time we should have learned the following:

1. How to setup Sitecore Instance
2. How to install Sitecore JSS
3. How to generate and Deploy Configuration to Sitecore Instance
4. How to deploy our sample application to Sitecore instance

In the next tutorial, we will start developing our application

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Let’s move on to the next step How to build a functioning website with Sitecore JSS