Course Summary

Project “Spartacus” is a lean, Angular-based JavaScript storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud. It helps 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. Although SPAs and PWAs provide a lot of benefits, they are not SEO-friendly by default. To address this, Spartacus includes several SEO features, one of which is configurable routing.

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the routing capabilities of Spartacus. However, the course is also targeted at people who are new to Spartacus, so you’ll learn how to set up a Spartacus storefront from scratch and then how to extend it. You’ll also learn about the basic SEO guidelines for routing.

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Course Characteristics

• Starting from: June 16, 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: July 15, 2020, 9:00 UTC
• Course language: English
• How is an openSAP course structured?

Course Content

Unit 1: Introduction to Routing
Unit 2: Installation
Unit 3: Enabling Context in the Storefront URL
Unit 4: Adding Content Pages
Unit 5: Customizing Routes
Unit 6: Using Router Links
Unit 7: Hands-On Exercises
Unit 8: Sample Solution for the Exercises

Target Audience

• Angular developers
• SAP Commerce Cloud developers

Course Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Angular
• Basic knowledge of RxJS

Development Systems

To practice the exercises of this course, you should be familiar with the following topics:

• HTML & CSS (SASS)
• TypeScript
• Angular 9 +: Basic concepts (components and modules), services and dependency injection, routing and navigations
• RxJS
• Yarn
  

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.