Adobe Experience Manager Links

AEM Links Index

Start Here

Adobe Experience Manager Onboarding resources
AEM project archetype by Adobe
AEM Demo Machine
WKND Sites Project - Adobe's reference site implementation

Blogs

Blogs (slightly outdated but good historical content)

Twitter accounts to follow

Component Development

HTL (fka Sightly) Style Guide

Adobe Consulting Services (ACS)

Commons - AEM development and component toolkit for bootstrapping any AEM project
Tools - Set of tools for AEM to make developer lives easier
Samples - Well commented code samples of AEM building blocks to help educate AEM developers.

Continuous Integration and Delivery - DevOps

Grabbit
Recap - rsync for Adobe Granite
Chef cookbook by Tacit Knowledge
Python client for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) API
Carty - Visual Sling mappings editor

Documentation

Events

Adobe Summit
Evolve
adapt.to
There are a lof of meetups all over the world. Come join us in San Francisco.

Forums, Help

Java

Google Java Style Guide

AEM as a Cloud Service

AEM Screens

Screens HowTo project

Quick References

Open Source Documentation

Screencasts, Podcasts, Presentations

AEM Gems - technical deep dives delivered by Adobe experts
AEM @ SlideShare
Listing of Ask the AEM Community Experts sessions

Oak

Development Tools

AEMSync - AEM Synchronization Tool, the tool pushes code changes to AEM instance(s) upon a file change (Single most useful tool for AEM development)
Gulp Slang - Gulp process CURLs content straight into JCR
Gradle AEM Plugin - Allows to easily copy JCR content between remote instances. Provides advanced JCR content synchronization (with cleaning) from running instance to local file system.
Grunt Clientlibify - Grunt plugin for integrating AEM with a styleguide
Grunt Smart VLT - A simple grunt interface for Adobe VLT (last commit >2 years)
Vagrant AEM - Vagrant boxes for AEM
AEM Docker Containers - AEM and Dispatcher Docker Containers, AEM 6.3 - 6.5 - sdk-2021.3.5087
AEM Ansible Roles - Roles for managing your AEM services.

(* not sure if this is still being updated)

Open Source Projects & Code Examples

A curated list of open source projects, code examples and snippets to learn from and base your work from:

Libraries and extensions for AEM applications - huge library of extensions
AEM Replication Customization
CRX / AEM Package built w/ ANT + XSL
AEM React - Render components using React, isomorphic JavaScript rendering.
TODO MVC - SCF+SRP implementation of ToDo MVC with walkthrough.
SASS compiler for AEM - provides native SASS support in AEM
AEM WCM Core Components - Set of standardized WCM components supported by Adobe.

Tools (in AEM)

This is more of a short cut for people who don't want to navigate through the AEM UI or search for these useful tools in the docs:

Servlets (in AEM)

Third-party Tools

Adobe Marketing Cloud Open Developer - directory for tools
Access Control Tool
AEM Permission Management
Felix Search Web Console Plugin - decompiler and more
Sling Dynamic Include
AEM Tooling Plugin for Intellij IDEA
NEBA - integration of Spring Framework into Apache Sling
WebSight - Set of AEM/Sling Admin Tools (User Manager, Package Manager, Groovy Console and Resource Browser)

Helpful Specific Articles

Coral UI, Touch UI

Coral UI Documentation

FAQs, Knowledge Base

Component Development

Workflows

CQ5 OOTB workflow processes

Security

Talks, Presentations

Certification

Other

AEM Capability Matrix - list AEM Capabilities, Features and OOTB Component
Apache Sling Resource Resolver Rules in a Nutshell
Adobe CQ/AEM Support Matrix
Adobe CQ5 AEM cURL Commands
How to upgrade AEM 6.5 safely
Experiencing Adobe Experience Manger - Day CQ