This course was retired in October, 2023.

Course Summary

Project “Spartacus” is a lean, Angular-based JavaScript storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud. It allows you to hit the ground running by providing a framework to build single-page application (SPA) and progressive web app (PWA) storefronts.

SPAs and PWAs deliver an exceptional user experience because they behave like native apps. In addition to being an SPA and PWA, “Spartacus” is highly configurable and extensible, which allows it to be used for a wide range of projects.

This course will give you an insight into “Spartacus” and how it can be used to build your own PWA storefront. The course will introduce you to what “Spartacus” is and the technologies it uses and give you an overview of its architecture. Through demos, you will also see how it is possible to install Spartacus and extend it to create your storefront.

Note: This course was prepared using Spartacus version 2.0. By the time you start the course, a new version of Spartacus may be available. All the information provided in this course should also be valid for the newer version of Spartacus. However, there might be some small technical differences not covered here. In case of any problems, please refer to the official documentation.

Course Characteristics

• Starting from: September 30, 2020, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
• Duration: The course is open for 4 weeks
• Effort: 2-3 hours in total
• Course assignment: You can take the course assignment at any time whilst the course is open.
• Course closure: October 29, 2020, 9:00 UTC
• Course language: English
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Course Content

Unit 1: What Is Spartacus?
Unit 2: Why Spartacus?
Unit 3: Comparison with Accelerator
Unit 4: Basic Setup and Features Overview
Unit 5: Spartacus Technology Overview
Unit 6: Extending Spartacus
Unit 7: Architecture Overview
Unit 8: Learning and Using Spartacus

Target Audience

• Angular developers
• SAP Commerce Cloud developers
• SAP Commerce Cloud consultants

Development Systems

To practice what you have learned in the course you can use an editor of choice to develop code. Visual Studio Code, for example, is a good choice. You should use an SAP Commerce Cloud instance (minimum version: 1905). If you do not have one, you can use this public instance. Can find out how to use the public instance backend with your local Spartacus on Github. You can also check out this repository with examples shown in this openSAP course.