Using Content Driven Development

Content-first development for AEM prioritizes defining your content model and creating test content before writing code. This Skill automates that workflow by guiding you through content discovery, modeling author-friendly structures, and creating test content that validates your block implementation and serves as documentation.

Modeling content first prevents rework and authoring difficulties by clarifying requirements upfront. It ensures blocks meet author needs, reduces redesigns, and makes test content double as living documentation and PR validation.

Yes. This Skill applies to all AEM Edge Delivery development tasks—creating new blocks, modifying structure or functionality, updating decoration logic, and fixing bugs. Each requires content validation to ensure changes serve actual author workflows.

Create test content in your CMS or as local HTML that matches your content model. This Skill guides test content creation as an orchestrated step, ensuring it validates functional requirements and provides authors with clear examples of how to use your blocks.

Yes. This Skill integrates with related Skills for content modeling, building blocks, and testing blocks, streamlining the entire AEM Edge Delivery development lifecycle while fitting into your existing authoring and development processes.

Skipping content modeling often leads to unclear author requirements, blocks that don't meet authoring needs, and costly redesigns. Content-first development catches these issues early by enforcing modeling and test content validation before implementation.