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Getting Started with AEM Sites - Project Archetype project-archetype

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Welcome to a multi-part tutorial designed for developers new to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager (AEM). This tutorial walks through the implementation of an AEM site for a fictitious lifestyle brand the WKND.

This tutorial starts by using the AEM Project Archetype to generate a new project.

The tutorial is designed to work with AEM as a Cloud Service and is backwards compatible with AEM 6.5.14+. The site is implemented using:

Estimate 1-2 hours to get through each part of the tutorial.

Local Development Environment local-dev-environment

A local development environment is necessary to complete this tutorial. Screenshots and video are captured using the AEM as a Cloud Service SDK running on a macOS environment with as the IDE. Commands and code should be independent of the local operating system, unless otherwise noted.

Required software

The following should be installed locally:

GitHub github

The code from this tutorial can be found on GitHub in the AEM Guide repo:

In addition, each part of the tutorial has its own branch in GitHub. A user can begin the tutorial at any point by simply checking out the branch that corresponds to the previous part.

Next Steps next-steps

What are you waiting for? Start the tutorial by navigating to the Project Setup chapter and learn how to generate a new ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Manager project using the AEM Project Archetype.