Setting up a Sitecore JSS development environment with the Containers template for Next.js

Last Updated on May 9, 2023 by sandeeppote

Follow steps in this link —

https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/hd/211/sitecore-headless-development/walkthrough–setting-up-a-development-environment-with-the-sitecore-containers-template-for-next-js.html

Following are thre pre-requisite for setting on your local machine-

A valid Sitecore license file.
Windows PowerShell 5.1. PowerShell 7 is not supported at this time.
The current long-term support (LTS) version of Node.js.
.NET Core 3.1 SDK (check your installed version with the dotnet --version command).
.NET Framework 4.8 SDK (see the Microsoft procedure for checking .NET Framework versions).
Visual Studio 2019.
Docker for Windows, with Windows Containers enabled.
Any required components for using Sitecore Containers.

Apart from this also install Sitecore JSS CLI-

npm install -g @sitecore-jss/sitecore-jss-cli

Install the template

dotnet new -i Sitecore.DevEx.Templates --nuget-source https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json

dotnet new sitecore.nextjs.gettingstarted -n samplejss

Should first Restores dotnet local tools for the solution and Initializes the JSS project

What is your Sitecore hostname (used if deployed to Sitecore)? (samplejss.dev.local) << leave blank or provide the host name>>

How would you like to fetch Layout and Dictionary data? 
GraphQL
REST

How would you like to prerender your application?
SSG
SSR

Which additional language do you want to support (en is already included and required)? << leave blank or type the language you want. should select da-DK by default and additional language>>

JSS application is now ready and updated for continerized environment.

Navigate to project folder and initialize the environment.

.\init.ps1 -InitEnv -LicenseXmlPath "<C:\path\to\license.xml>" -AdminPassword "<desired password>"

setx NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS C:\Users\sandeep\AppData\Local\mkcert\rootCA.pem

Execute up.ps1 to create containers-

.\up.ps1

Error-

CM is not coming up-

Checked the docker logs, and found this error-

The path is not set correctly. Need to escape the characters-

Resolution-

Change – entrypoint: powershell.exe -Command “& C:\tools\entrypoints\iis\Development.ps1” to entrypoint: powershell.exe -Command “& C:\\tools\\entrypoints\\iis\\Development.ps1” in docker-compose.override.yml file for xm1, xp0 and xp1

Take down all the containers and build again.

Now this should look fine-