Course Overview and Prerequisites
Lesson 1 of 21 · 5 min
Course Overview
In this course, you’ll build a strong technical foundation for working with Makeswift, the composable visual content editor that enables marketers to create enterprise-grade web experiences. The key to enhancing the capabilities of your branding team to design world-class content is in building effective custom components for the Makeswift editor. This course will be your guide to building complex components, as well as giving you a look into the Next.js architecture that powers the Makeswift editor and frontend.
Course Objectives
- Identify the key aspects of the Makeswift visual editor and how to use them
- Review the options for setting up a Makeswift site and effectively utilize the CLI tools
- Examine the architecture of the Makeswift client, runtime, and layout integration in Next.js
- Identify important Makeswift component controls and how to map them to code-level properties
- Understand best practices for creating effective components
- Apply what you’ve learned about Makeswift architecture by completing hands-on labs
