Digital Experience Accelerator (DXA)

While SDL Tridion Sites is typically deployed as a decoupled application, SDL does provide an optional open-source, MVC-based reference implementation called the SDL Digital Experience Accelerator, or DXA for short.

DXA is a fully functional website implementation for SDL Tridion Sites using responsive design techniques and the most modern web standards. It is based on years of best practice and provides a quick-start foundation for web projects, decreasing website implementation time dramatically.

The following table summarizes support by the various releases of DXA for this and other releases of SDL Tridion Sites, as well as the required version of Content Delivery for each combination.

SDL Tridion Sites
Tridion release:8.59.09.19.5
DXA releaseContent Delivery version:8.5*11.0.011.1.011.5.0
DXA 1.7Framework and modulesYes
DXA 1.8Framework and modulesYesYesYesYes
In-process Model ServiceYes
Experience Optimization module (with Fredhopper)Yes
DXA 2.0Framework and modulesYes
REST Model ServiceYes
Experience Optimization module (with Fredhopper)Yes
DXA 2.1Framework (for .NET only)YesYes
REST Model ServiceYesYes
PCA Client + DXA Model ExtensionYesYes
Experience Optimization module (with ElasticSearch)YesYes
DXA 2.2FrameworkYesYesYesYes
In-process Model ServiceYesYes
Custom ResolverYesYesYes
Template Building BlocksYesYesYesYes
REST Model ServiceYesYesYes
PCA Client + DXA Model ExtensionYesYesYes
Experience Optimization module (with ElasticSearch)YesYesYes

* This combination does not support content mashups using the Tridion Docs Mashup module, which requires the GraphQL Content Service provided in Content Delivery 11.0 and later.

For detailed requirements for either DXA for Tridion Sites or DXA for Dynamic Documentation, refer to the related topics.