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UMB.FYI 2025-01-01

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2025 will be a great year for Umbraco

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Community

Enhancing Umbraco RTE Configurations: Combining Stylesheets and AppSettings for Flexibility

Johan Reitsma discusses a workaround for managing Rich Text Editor (RTE) styles in Umbraco 13, highlighting the separation of stylesheets and appsettings.json for enhanced flexibility. It provides a method to dynamically update RTE styles from a JSON file, improving readability and maintainability, while noting limitations in Umbraco 15+ with the transition to TipTap.

[ #rte ]

Utilizing the IMiddleware interface in Umbraco

Rachel Breeze discusses middleware, software that processes application requests and responses in a sequential pipeline. It allows developers to customize behavior by adding components, such as logging or caching. Microsoft’s IMiddleware interface facilitates this customization and dependency injection, enhancing application robustness. Proper ordering of middleware is crucial for optimal performance.

[ #extensionsapi ]

Azure WebApp is reporting "Service unavailable" after Azure DevOps Deployment

In his blog, Rachel Breeze discusses troubleshooting a "503: Service unavailable" error following a web app deployment in Azure DevOps. She emphasizes using the app offline file, examining Azure DevOps logs, and checking the eventlog.xml file to identify issues. Proper deployment setup and post-deployment checks are crucial for maintaining web app stability.

[ #deployments ] [ #troubleshooting ]

Umbraco package of the month: xStatic

In the final blog of the year, Jeroen van Kempen discusses the xStatic package for statically generating Umbraco websites, focusing on deployment via Netlify. While xStatic offers cost-effective and efficient site management, it has limitations, such as reduced access to Umbraco features. Jeroen views it as suitable for simple hobby sites or small campaigns.

[ #packages ]

Events

Umbraco Users Group India - Unleashing Possibilities with Umbraco Engage

2025-01-08 from 17:00 to 18:00 - Online on googleHangout

[ #umbracoengage ]

.NET Conf 2024 umBristol

2025-01-08 from 18:00 to 20:00 - Gibe Digital, Unit 1.8, Paintworks Central Trading Estate, Bristol, GB

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Umbraco Winter Keynote 2025

Packages

Bielu.Umbraco.Generators.Dictionaries

This package allows to generated class with access to alias, key (guid) and id (int) of dictionaries

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