This is a basic Sitecore Host application that displays a demo web page. This was originally used as a demo for SUGCON EU 2019 and at the Atlanta Sitecore User Group in March 2019.
This is the base Sitecore Host application. It initializes Sitecore Host...and that's about it.
This is the plugin that provides functionality to the Sitecore Host application. It initializes a web host and provides a demo page to be displayed.
There is a Cake script that will execute the build and deployment of the application.
Simply run build.ps1 and the script will build and deploy the application into the bin directory of ScHost. This will include the dependent GC.Plugin.Messaging.Web plugin and deploy the files to the appropriate directories in the application.
If you'd like to publish your application to a different path, you can execute the Cake script like this:
.\build.ps1 -ScriptArgs '-output="C:\output"'
You will need a Sitecore subscription license placed in the sitecoreruntime folder of the published application in order for it to run.
To use the plugin independently, you can run dotnet pack on the GC.Plugin.Messaging.Web project which will properly generate a NuGet package for use with a Sitecore Host application. You'll need to then extract and install the NuGet package based on Sitecore's documentation here.
There is a Dockerfile included in the project which will build and create a Docker image of the Sitecore Host application. The Dockerfile expects the Sitecore license.xml to be in the root (same folder as the Dockerfile) in order to build the image.
The Cake script also has steps to build the Docker image. You can run the following to build a Docker image:
.\build.ps1 -Target "Docker Build"
Or, to build and run the image, you can do:
.\build.ps1 -Target "Docker Run"
By default, it tags the images as schost:latest. If you want to change the tag of the Docker image that is built with the Cake script, you can run either the Docker Build or Docker Run targets with the this extra parameter:
.\build.ps1 -Target "Docker Build" -ScriptArgs '-tag="newtag:latest"'
This is only intended as a proof-of-concept and does not contain production-ready code. Please don't treat it as such. 😎