Using Content Driven Development

Content-driven development is a workflow that prioritizes content discovery and author-friendly content modeling before writing code for AEM Edge Delivery Services, ensuring development tasks rely on real content to improve usability and reduce rework.

To build an AEM component using a content-first workflow, identify or create real test content, design an author-friendly content model, implement the component against that content, and validate it using integrated testing blocks.

Yes, AEM Edge Delivery Services supports author-friendly content modeling by orchestrating content structures that are intuitive for authors, ensuring development starts with content discovery rather than code implementation.

The best way to validate AEM blocks against real content is to leverage integrated testing blocks during the development process and pull request validation, ensuring the implementation matches the discovered content requirements.

You should use a content-first approach for AEM development when building new components or blocks, ensuring you start with content discovery and modeling to prevent rework and improve author usability.

Your AEM development workflow likely requires rework because it lacks a content-first approach; starting with code before discovering real content and designing author-friendly models leads to misaligned components and usability issues.