Using Content Driven Development

Content-driven development for AEM is a workflow that prioritizes content discovery and author-friendly content modeling before writing code. It ensures components are built based on real content rather than assumptions to improve development efficiency.

To build an AEM block using a content-first workflow, first identify or create test content, design an author-friendly content model, build the block against that content, and then validate it thoroughly to ensure it meets author needs.

Modeling content before building AEM components ensures that the resulting code prioritizes author needs. This approach promotes intuitive content models and prevents developers from building functionality based on incorrect assumptions about the content structure.

Yes, you can modify existing AEM blocks with a content-first approach. The workflow guides you to validate modifications against real content and author-friendly models, ensuring changes maintain an intuitive and efficient development workflow.

Yes, you need test content to start AEM block development. Identifying or creating real test content is the required first step before designing the content model and building the component to ensure accurate validation.

The best way to validate AEM block functionality changes is by testing them against real content. This content-first workflow integrates with testing-blocks skills to ensure core functionality changes are thoroughly validated for authors.