02 Resources

These are the tools and practises currently used by the development team in Habitat:

• Sitecore XP 8.2 rev. 161115 (update 1)
  • WFFM 8.2 rev 161129 (update 1)
• Development: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6
  • Extension: Web Compiler
  • Extension: EditorConfig
• User interface pattern: ASP.NET MVC
• Css Extension Language: Sass
• Front end framework: Bootstrap 3
• Package management: NuGet, Node (npm) and Bower
• Sitecore tools: Sitecore Instance Manager and Sitecore Rocks
• Build scripts: Gulp
• Item serialisation: Unicorn
  • Windows PowerShell 4.0 + (Requirement to Synch Unicorn via Gulp Task)
• Bug-tracking: GitHub
• CI server: TeamCity
• Unit tests: xUnit
• Specification Testing: SpecFlow
• Environment: Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 (required only for Foundation.Installer module)

Sitecore does not endorse any particular third-party tool. The tools in the current release were chosen because of a number of reasons including popularity and ease of licensing. This does not preclude using other tools in Habitat or changing any third-party tool for another depending on feedback from the Sitecore community.

The project uses the Bootstrap theme implemented in Sitecore.Demo.Theme

Alternates

Team Development for Sitecore

A separate fork of the Habitat project with support for Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) is maintained by Hedgehog Development. The Habitat TDS branch can be found here

ORM

If you are interested in using an ORM tool like Glass or Synthesis with Habitat, please refer to these examples:
https://github.com/kamsar/Habitat/tree/HabitatSynthesis
https://github.com/muso31/Habitat-Glass.Mapper