Sebastiaan Janssen

Sebastiaan Janssen

Developer Advocate at Umbraco, kayaker, (live) music lover and a bit of a nerd 🤘

https://cultiv.dev

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2026-05-13

📰 Bootstrapping Umbraco ModelsBuilder on an empty site

Sebastiaan Janssen outlines a solution for Umbraco developers facing a "chicken-and-egg" problem where strongly-typed views fail to compile due to missing models. By disabling Razor compile-on-build, switching ModelsBuilder to manual mode, and generating models in the backoffice, developers can successfully start the site and resolve the issue.

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