02 Resources

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

• Sitecore XP 8.2 initial release
  • WFFM
• Development: Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6
  • Extension: Bundler & Minifier
  • Extension: Web Essentials 2015.1
  • Extension: Web Compiler
  • Extension: EditorConfig
• User interface pattern: ASP.NET MVC
• Css Extension Language Sass
• Package management: NuGet, Node (npm) and Bower
• Sitecore tools: Sitecore Instance Manager and Sitecore Rocks
• Build scripts: Gulp
• Item serialisation: Unicorn 3
• 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.

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