Successful meetup for Optimizely developers at Epinova
On April 26, we at Epinova organized the first physical meetup event since the pandemic - and the interest was great!
Over 50 developers working with Optimizely came to munch on wraps, have a beer, talk to industry colleagues, look at the view from our new nice premises and of course to listen to three interesting presentations and participate in the final panel discussion.
Two competitions with great prizes put a little extra silver lining on the evening and the participants really got to use their brains to solve the tasks!
Presentations
Plugins You Didn't Know You Needed
Luc ran live coding and showed how to install and configure two Optimizely addons that he has developed in an Alloy site. Luc Gosso, OMVP Epicweb
Server-side rendered Javascript in Optimizely/NET
If you are running Razor views and want to be able to run instantiated Javascript components, you should server-side render these to get good performance and SEO. Mathias went through how to do this in a smooth way without committing to specific frameworks and how to work with React 18 when React.NET don't support this. Matthias Wikenbrant - Developer, Epinova
Here you can read Mathias' blog post
Optimizely 11-12 DXP migration
Johan shared experiences from migrating from CMS 11 to 12 and going live on Optimizely DXP on .NET Core. Johan Kronberg, OMVP Tietoevry Create
Optimizely .NET Core migration
The evening ended with an open Q&A session where participants could ask the speakers or share their own experiences about upgrading to the latest version of Optimizely on .Net Core.
We would like to thank Luc, Mathias and Johan for useful presentations and our CEO Linus Ekström who held it all together.
