SmartEdit Setup Instructions for Spartacus

Pre-requisites:

  • SAP Commerce Cloud 1905 (released May 29, 2019)
    • with spartacussampledataaddon installed
  • Spartacus libraries, releases 0.1.0 alpha.4 or later, latest recommended

Configuring SmartEdit to work with a Spartacus storefront

  1. Build your Angular app, adding Spartacus libraries as normal. Make sure it’s working before continuing. For more information, see Building the Spartacus Storefront from Libraries.

  2. Copy the SmartEdit file webApplicationInjector.js to the folder src of your Angular app.

    This file to copy can be found in your SAP Commerce Cloud installation, in the following folder:

    hybris/bin/modules/smartedit/smarteditaddon/acceleratoraddon/web/webroot/_ui/shared/common/js/webApplicationInjector.js
    
  3. In the root folder of your Angular app, edit the file angular.json.

    In the section architect > build > option > assets, add src/webApplicationInjector.js.

    Example:

    "architect": {
    "build": {
      "builder": "@angular-devkit/build-angular:browser",
      "options": {
        "outputPath": "dist/mystore",
        "index": "src/index.html",
        "main": "src/main.ts",
        "polyfills": "src/polyfills.ts",
        "tsConfig": "src/tsconfig.app.json",
        "assets": [
          "src/favicon.ico",
          "src/assets",
          "src/webApplicationInjector.js"
    		],
       ...
    
  4. In src/index.html file, in the HEAD section, add the following line:

    <script id="smartedit-injector" src="webApplicationInjector.js" data-smartedit-allow-origin="localhost:9002"></script>
    

    Replace localhost:9002 with the domain of your server.

    This line tells SmartEdit that Spartacus is allowed to be edited by SmartEdit.

  5. Ensure that the WCMS Cockpit Preview URL is set correctly.

    • In Backoffice, in WCMS > Website > your site, click the WCMS Properties tab.
    • Set the WCMS Cockpit Preview URL to your Spartacus web site. For this example, it should point to https://localhost:4200.
  6. Ensure that the Spartacus site is whitelisted in Smartedit. There are many ways to do this; see the SmartEdit documentation for more information.

    • Log onto SmartEdit as an administrator.

    • Click the Settings icon at top right.

    • Scroll down to whiteListedStorefronts, and add the exact URL of the Spartacus storefront. For this example, it is:

       [
          "https://localhost:4200"
       ]
      
  7. Start the Angular app in SSL mode. Doing so will avoid an “unsafe scripting” message from the browser.

    yarn start --ssl
    

Note: If you start the app without SSL mode, the two references to https://localhost:4200 must be changed to http://localhost:4200.