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SOLID Sitecore

A collection of posts that relate to being SOLID when building SItecore sites.

Dependency Injection for Sitecore Pipelines and Pipeline Groups.

Dependency Injection for Sitecore Pipelines and Pipeline Groups.

If you know me, you are aware of my love of Simple Injector, and if you don't know me, I love Simple Injector. I wanted to use it as the container that resolved a JSS layoutService processor, but the tried and true method of using ref and factory attributes blew

DI container references vs system boundaries.

DI container references vs system boundaries.

In my post, Watch your Composition Root [https://public-abstract-gravy-power.ghost.io/2018/02/24/watch-your-composition-root/], I explore how to empower plugins to be apart of the application bootstrap process. After sharing this two friends of mine, Rob Earlam [https://twitter.com/RobEarlam] and Sean Holmesby [https://twitter.com/seanholmesby] supplied

Service Locator Pattern or Anti-Pattern?

Service Locator Pattern or Anti-Pattern?

For a long time now I have considered the Service Locator an Anti-Pattern, but recently I have come to question this resolve, is it black and white? Maybe not. Mark Seemann first introduced me to the idea of an Anti-Pattern in general with his article Service Locator is an Anti-Pattern

Two containers are better than one.

Two containers are better than one.

Sitecore is a fantastic CMS that does many things right, and from version 8.2 the list also included Dependency Injection. It's great to see the product embrace IoC, the framework's code is using it, training materials include the concept, and the Sitecore community is talking about it. I love