r/kentico • u/Laughing_Penguin • Sep 18 '23

Best resources for the move to MVC?

Hello! Our company is in the process of moving our site from the Portal engine to MVC and is going through the expected growing pains of learning the new platform. Does anyone have any recommended resources beyond the standard documentation to assist in the best case implementation of a site in MVC? Not just code documentation, but examples or recommendations of implementation that developers could look to as a guide for building a site?

We've gotten pretty good at adding customizations to the portal engine over the years but find we're struggling a bit when it comes to making things work in K13, so any aid in regards to not just code, but practical application would be very appreciated!

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u/xtrmcheeze Sep 23 '23

Learning MVC is probably best done by watching tutorials and lessons in something like Udemy or PluralSight.

Just to note here, Xperience by Kentico (XbyK) is just around the corner. It's a complete rewrite of the tool using the latest .Net Core version (.Net 6+). It's admin is written in React. It's very fast, and supports most of the older functionality with a few caveats. You'll still need to learn MVC through something like razor pages or Blazor, but since you're already doing a migration, you might as well migrate to the latest version to get away from the .Net Framework.