Blog posts by opti dev

Optimizely CMS 13 ES6 Editor Descriptors

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Introduction

With the release if Optimizely PaaS CMS 13, there is a new way to create UI editor descriptors to allow to custom UI with managing a property. These have been one of the reasons partners can make the jobs of editors much easier by proving a custom experience when entering content. In the previous versions all the descriptors had to involve dojo. Optimizely provided a way to use react or other tools but you needed to create a dojo wrapper around the component. This post will provide and example vite.config.ts file and command to package your editor descriptors.

Deploying to Linux in SaaS (Configured) Commerce

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

With Optimizely SaaS (Configured) Commere now suporting net8.0 extensions dll, you will need to make a small tweak to how you distribute you extensions dll.

lunchin Optimizely Cloud Extensions now supports CMS 13

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT

lunchin.Optimizely.Cloud.Extensions version 2.0 has been released today which adds support for Optimizely CMS 13.

Net8 Local Development Without Docker In Saas Commerce

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Introduction

Now that Optimizely SaaS (Configured) Commerce has released net 8 support and updated their infrastructure to run on linux, we are starting to move some of our clients to .net 8 and linux hosting. This means we will need to be able to run .net 8 version locally, which according to offical docs requires docker desktop. While I love docker for creating images for deployed services, I hate using it locally because it consumes alot of diskspace, memory, as well as docker desktop no longer being free. This post will guide you on you can run locally .net 8 without using docker.

Using Azure Devops Pipelines in Optimizely SAAS (Configured) Commerce

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Introduction

When working with SAAS Commerce build service v2 your currently need to use a github repo with configured branches to start deployments. Any time a push is comitted to the configured branches the build service will start a deployment.

Optimizely CMS 13 First Impressions

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Introduction

This week Optimizely released the long awaited CMS 13. I upgraded my Optimizely extensions package to CMS 13 and found some interesting things I needed to do to update my package. I will use this blog post to document some of those findings.

Introducing lunchin Optimizely Cloud Extensions

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMT

Today I proud to announce the release of two new packages to the Optimizely NuGet feed.