Building web solutions with Netgen Layouts
summary
Netgen Layouts is a Symfony full‑stack app that renders pages from layout types, zones and blocks and integrates with backends like Contentful integration and eZ Platform; it caches Contentful objects in a local DB and invalidates via webhooks to avoid API limits. The demo builds a homepage and a course page, maps layouts to routes with mapping by URL with conditions (IP, time, content type), adds dynamic collections via custom queries, overrides block templates with plugins, and runs in production on 30+ sites with acceptable performance.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to Netgen Layouts
- 9:32Core concepts and architecture
- 21:00Why Netgen Layouts exists
- 23:08Setting up the demo environment
- 31:25Creating a homepage layout
- 38:02Mapping layouts to URLs
- 41:49Course page layout and Contentful integration
- 50:00Overriding block templates
- 54:59Shared layouts and zones
- 1:00:02Dynamic queries for related content
- 1:05:08Extending blocks with plugins
- 1:10:33Content type-specific templates
- 1:14:46Conditional mappings with IP ranges
- 1:20:20Advanced features and extensions
- 1:24:15Q&A and closing remarks
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