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Feather: Take control of your markup with MVC

With Sitefinity CMS Feather, you can leverage Sitefinity CMS ASP.NET MVC technology in its classic, pure, and hybrid modes for even more simplified development. Sitefinity CMS Feather introduces a modern, convention-based, mobile-first UI framework for Sitefinity CMS. Feather enables developers to build mobile-ready sites using frameworks of their choice. The main benefits of working with Feather are:

  • MVC stock widgets
    ASP.NET MVC implementation of most of Sitefinity CMS stock widgets to enable you to take full control over your markup.
  • AngularJS designer framework
    AngularJS SPA implementation of widget designers to help you create new designers or modify existing ones in matter of minutes.
  • Mobile first
    All widgets are built with a mobile-first mindset. Responsive design is provided by the CSS framework, used in the Bootstrap package.
  • Convention-based framework
    Widgets, designers, templates and views: all wired-up based on a simple convention that does not require mappings and XML.
  • Choose your framework
    Bootstrap is installed with Feather out-of-the-box. You get support for other frameworks, as well.
  • Packages
    Package your CSS, images, widget templates, layout templates and a master template, all in one package.
This section contains:
  • Feather: Overview of Feather deployment
    Learn about versioning of widget assemblies, file-based upgrades of dynamic content packages and custom packages, and pages precompilation.
  • Feather: Built-in widgets
    Use Feather built-in widgets to display various types of content on webpages. Use widgets for combinations of functionality and content.
  • Feather: Frontend packages
    Base your design on Bootstrap framework, installed with Feather out-of-the-box. Use resource packages to group resources.
  • Feather: Widget templates
    Change the look of the built-in Feather widgets. Modify default widget templates directly in the file system without any need to build your project to apply the changes.
  • Feather: Develop widgets
    Create new widgets from scratch and implement your own logic and customize widgets' built-in functionality.
  • Feather: Widget designers framework
    Work with Feather widget designer framework, based on client technologies like HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS, and Bootstrap. Work with a library of reusable client components.
  • Feather: Tutorials and samples
    Tutorials that introduce you to more complex or specific scenarios that you can complete to get into more detail with Feather functionality and features.
  • Feather: Conventions and best practices

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