Pega Platform version 8.7 expands the scope of Cosmos React and its underlying view-based architecture to support the latest open-source technologies and UI solutions. Cosmos React features a curated authoring experience that helps professional and citizen developers build an application in the low-code App Studio environment, while also providing flexible orchestration.

• Cosmos taxonomy

  The Cosmos design system maximizes productivity for the core guided workflow constructs of the Pega Platform. By utilizing Cosmos' extensive library of ready-to-use page structures, interaction patterns and UI components, you can deliver excellent interfaces while focusing on critical business logic and data, rather than building a UI from the ground up.

• Configuring Cosmos React

  Cosmos React offers a new low-code paradigm for developing applications quickly by using out-of-the-box components built around the concept of configuration. This still-expanding framework creates products that require less customization and one-off development, but promote a slightly different approach compared to application creation.

• Configuring portals

  Portals represent the main interface of your application, and provide users, such as case workers, managers, and customers, with the tools that they need to do their work. By configuring portals, you can set up an optimal environment for each of these user groups with minimal effort.

• Working with views

  You use views to display and collect information in your applicaton, for example, to fulfill requests or process cases. By setting up intuitive views and populating them with fields, you help users process their work with less effort.

• Branding your application

  Design systems help you introduce consistency to the applications that you build. By choosing to use a design system, you can scale your designs to maintain a unified presence across a number of platforms with less effort.

• Configuring an accessible UI

  Reach the broadest audience for your application by building a user interface that addresses the needs of users with disabilities. Designing a UI for assistive technologies, such as screen readers, is important for compliance and provides essential access to users who have visual impairments.

• Internationalization and localization

  Internationalization and localization help you reach a wider audience by making your application available to users who speak different languages. Localization is the process of translating application text and converting locale-specific components, and internationalization is a general design principle that makes software more convenient to localize.

• Embedding Pega Platform UI in web pages

  You can choose parts of Pega Platform UI that suit your business needs and make them available to users of your websites by creating a Web embed channel and inserting the auto-generated markup into any web page.

• Integrating Cosmos React applications

  Cosmos React is an opinionated design system that promotes out-of-the-box, low-maintenance solutions. However, its architecture includes tools that allow experienced developers integrate Cosmos React applications with other design systems or older applications that rely on sections.

• Constellation UI service

  Cosmos React applications rely on a static content microserivce that delivers front-end components and other static content to the browser.

• Configuring Docker authentication

  Set up the first download of a Docker image from a Pega repository by configuring a Docker authentication config.json file. This configuration is required when installing the Constellation UI Service with Docker for the first time.