Add Shapes documentation#19354
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| If you come to Orchard Core from classic ASP.NET MVC, the first thing that surprises you is that there are almost no fixed view models. A page is not a single strongly-typed `Model` rendered by a single `.cshtml`. Instead, the page is a **tree of shapes** — small, dynamic objects that each know how they want to be displayed, assembled at runtime and rendered into HTML. | ||
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| Shapes are the single most important concept in Orchard Core's UI layer. Once they click, the whole theming and customization story makes sense. This page explains what a shape is, how the rendering pipeline turns it into HTML, and why alternates and placement give you so much control without touching code. |
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I think it would be useful to explain why we aren't using static view models for content display, and why we still use them usually otherwise.
Co-authored-by: Zoltán Lehóczky <zoltan.lehoczky@lombiq.com>
Co-authored-by: Zoltán Lehóczky <zoltan.lehoczky@lombiq.com>
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Fixes #19350
Add a sub menu in "Display Management" to explain the concept of Shapes and how it is used in Orchard Core.