afv-library/skills/salesforce-experience-site-react/SKILL.md

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salesforce-experience-site-react

Use this skill when users need to create or configure a Salesforce Digital Experience Site that hosts a React web application. Trigger when users mention creating an Experience site for a React app, setting up a React site on Salesforce, configuring Network/CustomSite/DigitalExperience metadata for a web app, or when they need to deploy site infrastructure for a React application. Also trigger when users mention site URL path prefixes, app namespaces, guest access configuration, DigitalExperienceConfig, DigitalExperienceBundle, or sfdc_cms__site content types in the context of React apps. Always use this skill for any React web application site creation or site infrastructure configuration work, even if the user just says "create a site for my React app."

Digital Experience Site for React Web Applications

Create and configure Digital Experience Sites that host React web applications on Salesforce. This skill generates the minimum necessary site infrastructure — Network, CustomSite, DigitalExperienceConfig, DigitalExperienceBundle, and the sfdc_cms__site content type — to stand up a working site.

Required Properties

Resolve all five properties before generating any metadata. Each has a fallback resolution chain — work through each option in order until a value is found.

Property	Format	How to Resolve
siteName	UpperCamelCase (e.g., MyCommunity)	Ask user or derive from context
siteUrlPathPrefix	kebab-case (e.g., my-community)	User-provided, or convert siteName to kebab-case
appNamespace	String	namespace in sfdx-project.json → sf data query -q "SELECT NamespacePrefix FROM Organization" --target-org ${usernameOrAlias} → default c
appDevName	String	webApplication metadata in the project → sf data query -q "SELECT DeveloperName FROM WebApplication" --target-org ${usernameOrAlias} → default to siteName
enableGuestAccess	Boolean	Ask user whether unauthenticated guest users can access site APIs → default false

Generation Workflow

Step 1: Resolve All Required Properties

Determine values for all five properties before constructing anything. Use the resolution strategies above, falling through each option until a value is found.

Step 2: Create the Project Structure

Call the get_metadata_api_context MCP tool to retrieve schemas for Network, CustomSite, DigitalExperienceConfig, and DigitalExperienceBundle metadata types. These schemas define the valid XML structure for each file.

Create any files and directories that don't already exist, using these paths:

Metadata Type	Path
Network	networks/{siteName}.network-meta.xml
CustomSite	sites/{siteName}.site-meta.xml
DigitalExperienceConfig	digitalExperienceConfigs/{siteName}1.digitalExperienceConfig-meta.xml
DigitalExperienceBundle	digitalExperiences/site/{siteName}1/{siteName}1.digitalExperience-meta.xml
DigitalExperience (sfdc_cms__site)	digitalExperiences/site/{siteName}1/sfdc_cms__site/{siteName}1/*

The DigitalExperience directory needs both a _meta.json and a content.json file. The only required content type is sfdc_cms__site.

Step 3: Populate All Metadata Fields

Use the field configurations below. Values in {braces} are resolved property references.

Network

Field	Value
allowInternalUserLogin	false
allowMembersToFlag	false
changePasswordTemplate	unfiled$public/CommunityChangePasswordEmailTemplate
disableReputationRecordConversations	true
emailSenderAddress	admin@company.com
emailSenderName	{siteName}
embeddedLoginEnabled	false
enableApexCDNCaching	true
enableCustomVFErrorPageOverrides	false
enableDirectMessages	true
enableExpFriendlyUrlsAsDefault	false
enableExperienceBundleBasedSnaOverrideEnabled	true
enableGuestChatter	{enableGuestAccess}
enableGuestFileAccess	false
enableGuestMemberVisibility	false
enableImageOptimizationCDN	true
enableInvitation	false
enableKnowledgeable	false
enableLWRExperienceConnectedApp	false
enableMemberVisibility	false
enableNicknameDisplay	true
enablePrivateMessages	false
enableReputation	false
enableShowAllNetworkSettings	false
enableSiteAsContainer	true
enableTalkingAboutStats	true
enableTopicAssignmentRules	true
enableTopicSuggestions	false
enableUpDownVote	false
forgotPasswordTemplate	unfiled$public/CommunityForgotPasswordEmailTemplate
gatherCustomerSentimentData	false
headlessForgotPasswordTemplate	unfiled$public/CommunityHeadlessForgotPasswordTemplate
headlessRegistrationTemplate	unfiled$public/CommunityHeadlessRegistrationTemplate
networkMemberGroups	profile: admin
networkPageOverrides	changePasswordPageOverrideSetting: Standard, forgotPasswordPageOverrideSetting: Designer, homePageOverrideSetting: Designer, loginPageOverrideSetting: Designer, selfRegProfilePageOverrideSetting: Designer
newSenderAddress	admin@company.com
picassoSite	{siteName}1
selfRegistration	false
sendWelcomeEmail	true
site	{siteName}
siteArchiveStatus	NotArchived
status	Live
tabs	defaultTab: home, standardTab: Chatter
urlPathPrefix	{siteUrlPathPrefix}vforcesite
welcomeTemplate	unfiled$public/CommunityWelcomeEmailTemplate

CustomSite

Field	Value
active	true
allowGuestPaymentsApi	false
allowHomePage	false
allowStandardAnswersPages	false
allowStandardIdeasPages	false
allowStandardLookups	false
allowStandardPortalPages	true
allowStandardSearch	false
authorizationRequiredPage	CommunitiesLogin
bandwidthExceededPage	BandwidthExceeded
browserXssProtection	true
cachePublicVisualforcePagesInProxyServers	true
clickjackProtectionLevel	SameOriginOnly
contentSniffingProtection	true
enableAuraRequests	true
fileNotFoundPage	FileNotFound
genericErrorPage	Exception
inMaintenancePage	InMaintenance
indexPage	CommunitiesLanding
masterLabel	{siteName}
redirectToCustomDomain	false
referrerPolicyOriginWhenCrossOrigin	true
selfRegPage	CommunitiesSelfReg
siteType	ChatterNetwork
urlPathPrefix	{siteUrlPathPrefix}vforcesite

DigitalExperienceConfig

Field	Value
label	{siteName}
site.urlPathPrefix	{siteUrlPathPrefix}
space	site/{siteName}1

DigitalExperienceBundle

Field	Value
label	{siteName}1

DigitalExperience (sfdc_cms__site)

Field	Value
apiName	{siteName}1
type	sfdc_cms__site
title	{siteName}
urlName	{siteUrlPathPrefix}
contentBody.authenticationType	AUTHENTICATED_WITH_PUBLIC_ACCESS_ENABLED
contentBody.appContainer	true
contentBody.appSpace	{appNamespace}__{appDevName}

Step 4: Resolve Additional Configurations

Address any extra configurations the user requests. Use the schemas returned by get_metadata_api_context in Step 2 to understand each field's purpose, and update only the minimum necessary fields.

Verification Checklist

Before deploying, confirm:

• All five required properties are resolved
• All metadata directories and files exist per the project structure
• All metadata fields are populated per the configurations and user requests
• Deployment validates successfully:

sf project deploy validate --metadata Network CustomSite DigitalExperienceConfig DigitalExperienceBundle DigitalExperience --target-org ${usernameOrAlias}