Using Content Driven Development

Content-Driven Development orchestrates AEM Edge Delivery block development by anchoring content discovery, modeling, and validation to real author content, reducing drift between design and implementation.

The best way to test AEM blocks against authentic content is to identify or create real test content before coding, using live content testing to surface edge cases and guide decoration changes during development.

To start content modeling for AEM blocks, define the test content and content models first, then execute content-modeling, building-blocks, and testing-blocks in order to drive content-first implementation.

You need jsdom as a dependency to run content validation scripts for AEM development, enabling the testing-blocks phase to verify block implementation against real content models.

AEM block implementation drifts from the original design when development lacks real content grounding, which CDD prevents by orchestrating content discovery and live content testing before coding.

You can use content-driven development to simplify AEM author workflows and PR validation by aligning content models with author needs, streamlining content creation, reviews, and validation processes.