Developer introduction

Technologies used

• Litium CDN powered by Fastly handles all requests when the site has been deployed to Litium cloud.

• Client side frameworks

  • Litium react accelerator is built with Next.JS and React as a single page application.

  • Litium MVC accelerator is built as a Microsoft .NET MVC on .NET 6, with dynamic parts built with React.

  • Angular is used to build the SPA that is the Litium backoffice.

• The database used is Microsoft SQL Server.

• The search engine Litium search is built on Elasticsearch.

• Redis in-memory data store is used for:

  • Distributed cache
  • Distributed locks prevent other applications and threads from accessing a section of code that should not have multiple simultaneous executions.
  • Service bus
  • Session management
  • The Redis-task on GitHub has a sample on implementing distributed cache and lock

• Automapper is used to map data between similar objects, mainly to map data from the general object to MVC ViewModels, example:

// 1. Register mapping:
cfg.CreateMap<PageModel, ArticleViewModel>()
  .ForMember(x => x.Title, m => m.MapFromField(PageFieldNameConstants.Title))
  .ForMember(x => x.Text, m => m.MapFromField(PageFieldNameConstants.Text))
  .ForMember(x => x.Image, m => m.MapFrom<ImageModelResolver>());

// 2. Then use:
var articleViewModel = pageModel.MapTo<ArticleViewModel>();

License

A license is not required to setup a Litium installation on your local computer, but without a license file Litium will limit the number of requests per minute when the site is accessed from a machine other than localhost.

When you deploy to test/stage/prod environments you will need a license-file:

• The license must cover all environments (test/prod/stage) that customers have access to

• Request a license file