Introduction

In the previous chapter, you learned how to build pages with different presentation components, but presentation components are useful beyond just building pages. As a developer, you should provide an easier, error-free, and smart user interface to content authors to save time and improve accuracy by extending Sitecore presentation components.

This chapter will show you a number of tricks that will open up a whole new world of possibilities to extend Sitecore presentation components. Some recipes here will explain how we can reuse existing components with minor modifications to fulfil different requirements. Some recipes will explain working with multidevice and multilingual websites. This chapter also enlightens out-of-the-box features to serve content from external systems to Sitecore sites and vice versa. In this chapter, you will learn such presentation components extensions along with improving the performance of sites.