Beyond Package Designer: A Better Way to Transfer Content in Sitecore
If you’ve worked with Sitecore for a while, you’ve probably used Package Designer to move content, templates, or media between environments. It was a reliable tool for many years, but with Sitecore AI and modern SaaS architecture, Package Designer has been deprecated. Instead, Sitecore now provides Content Transfer APIs and Item Transfer APIs for moving…
Where Did __NEXT_DATA__ Go? Two Ways to Debug Sitecore Layout Data
If you’ve worked with Sitecore JSS on Next.js, you probably had a daily habit: open DevTools, type __NEXT_DATA__, and dig into layoutData. Route, placeholders, context — all in one place. After upgrading to the Sitecore Content SDK and Next.js App Router, that trick stops working. You’re not doing anything wrong. The data didn’t disappear — it just moved. What changed?…
OrderCloud Token Refresh in Next.js: A Production Pattern for SSR Storefronts
OrderCloud project I’ve worked on ships its first version with a token refresh bug. It rarely shows up in dev. It doesn’t show up in QA. It shows up in production — three weeks after launch, on a real device, when two requests happen to refresh at the same moment and one of them gets…
Ravi Vadher 