Server Side Extension Development Best Practices

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Introduction

A number of partner and customer developers have raised questions about server-side extension (SSE) development topics. First of all, that's a great sign that people are using the feature! However, that means we need to provide some more details about how to be successful when incorporating SSE development into your projects.

We've compiled a short list of SSE topics and recommendations for how to approach them. Please review and keep them in mind as you begin planning your projects.

Only upload required runtime dependencies

As part of your extensions package, upload only the npm modules that are required by your custom extension. There are a number of dependencies that Oracle Commerce includes the following modules which, if used, should be declared as