AEM Commerce As Cloud Service with CIF Add-On

 

In this post we will discuss how to setup the AEM commerce as a cloud service with CIF add-on.

 

Setup of AEM commerce as a cloud service :

 A local development environment is recommended to work with CIF projects and how to setup one is explained below:

 

Prerequisites:

Some of the prerequisites for the setup are :

1. AEM as a Cloud Service SDK

2. Java 11

3. Node.js

4. npm

5. Magento Instance URL

 

First of all , the latest CIF add-on should be downloaded from the Software Distribution portal. It is a zip file which contains the respective far file as add-ons for author and publish instance.

Now follow the steps below :

 

1. Make sure you have the latest AEM as a cloud service SDK.

2. Unpack the jar by running java -jar <jar_name> -unpack in the command line to create a quickstart folder.

3. Once the quickstart folder has been created , go inside it and create a folder named install.

4. Unzip the CIF add-on package file and copy the correct .far file in the install folder of the relative instance you are planning to run i.e. author .far file for author-4502 instance and publish .far for publish-4503 .

5. Create a local environment variable named COMMERCE_ENDPOINT holding the Magento GraphQL endpoint.

I have installed my Magento instance on my local machine and it is running on:

http://localhost/magento2/admin

In Windows : set COMMERCE_ENDPOINT=<magento_endpoint_url>/graphql

In MAC : export COMMERCE_ENDPOINT=<magento_endpoint_url>/graphql

Using echo, you can check your COMMERCE_ENDPOINT value

6. Now run the jar by running java -jar <jar_name> in the command line.

7. You will also need to setup the proxy server for Magento endpoint so that the endpoint is available locally for CIF add-on and the CIF core components and to get the products binded in the Commerce console. 

Run the following command to do that :

In Windows:

npx local-cors-proxy --proxyUrl http://localhost/magento2 --port 3000 --proxyPartial ""

Note: While setting up the proxy server , pass your Magento endpoint without /graphQL.

Your proxy server will be started stating Proxy Active and you can check the same by replacing proxied part with the http://localhost:3000/

Login to the AEM SDK and verify the CIF add-on related bundles at http://localhost:4502/system/console/osgi-installer

You will also be able to see the additional Commerce tab in http://localhost:4502/aem/start.html

Setup of the local AEM Commerce as a Cloud Service is completed now.

To deploy Viena project Follow Venia project with AEM

Happy Coding!!!