Integrate Next.js application to Sitecore Experience Editor

In this blog, we will see steps to integrate the Next.js application into the Sitecore experience editor.We need to add JssEditingSecret value in Sitecore as well as in the Next.js application. Both these values should match experience editor work.

Before making changes make sure the Sitecore/config/sitecore-jss-app.config file has the three values

serverSideRenderingEngine=”http” serverSideRenderingEngineEndpointUrl=”http://localhost:3000/api/editing/render” serverSideRenderingEngineApplicationUrl=”http://localhost:3000″

1. Sitecore Configuration

   We will apply the Sitecore configuration using a path config file.

   Open your application config file sitecore/config/sitecore-jss-app.config and add JavaScriptServices.ViewEngine.Http.JssEditingSecret value. This value could be any value but should contain at least 16 characters length

   

   Once you made the above change, publish this config using below command. Make sure you are running the terminal in Administrator mode

   jss deploy config

   

2. Next.js application configuration

   Open .env file in your next.js application and add the same value to JSS_EDITING_SECRET key.

   

   Run the application using jss start:connected

   Go to Sitecore content editor and open any page in Experience editor. Now you will be able to view the page in Experience editor.