Shipping a Prebuilt Editing Host to SitecoreAI When the Platform Can't Build It
SitecoreAI builds the editing host for you, and normally that's the right call. It stopped being right the day our component library moved behind the client's VPN, and standing up an external editing host on more GCP infrastructure was more than the problem deserved. So we made the platform run a prebuilt Next.js standalone it never built itself. Here's the full trail: the npm install that always runs no matter what buildCommand says, the silent strip of anything dot-prefixed (.next, .env), a server bound to the wrong hostname so it couldn't answer its own editing fetch, and the fixes that finally got Page Builder loading. Works with any CI, Jenkins is just what we run.
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