ubase - What is it?

A base Visual Studio solution for Umbraco 8.1+.
The solution is a SOLID foundation of common patterns, folder structures, and website features which are widely accepted as "best practice" in the Umbraco community. USync definitions in this solution provide a foundation set of document types and datatypes.

Note: This is not meant to be a "starter kit" per se, nor is it meant to have a load of features which are toggled.

Setup Instructions

1. Fork/copy this repository, then build in Visual Studio
2. Run application and go through standard Umbraco setup WITHOUT a starter kit
3. Go to Settings section -> Usyc, then click Import
4. Go to Content section, create Site Container - Other main nodes will be automatically created on Save & Publish.

Note: If you get an error regarding roslyn, try reinstalling, and rebuilding.

update-package -reinstall Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform

Base Functionality

Visual Studio Structure

• Application.Web - Umbraco
• Application.Core - Builders, Services
• Application.Models - Models Builder, other application models

Web.config

Redirects

• Remove "/""
• Redirect to https (enabled by default)
• Internal rewrite to /ErrorPages/500.html

Optimisations

• Gzip static files

Common Pages

• 500.html (static)
• Robots.txt (content managed)
• Sitemap.xml (generated)

Umbraco

Core DocumentTypes

• Site Container (houses Site and Repository Container)
• Site (requires selection of Home node)
  • Configuration (lives in Site node)
• Repository Container (for housing of partial content/elements)

Page DocumentTypes

• Home (lives under Site Root)
• Base Page (implements Page Settings Mixin)
  • Page Settings Mixin (includes SEO & scripts)

Content Node Structure

A base node structure is provided which allows flexibility, multi-websites and separation of partial data elements.

• Site Container
  • Website (put hostname here)
    • Home
    • Eror404
  • Data Repositories

Note: Data repositories are a common way to store partial content/elements which need to be referenced across your website. For example:

• Authors
• Categories
• Tags
• Locations
• External Links

Umbraco Packages

• USync
• Meganav (TBD)
• SiteLock (TBD)