Context Item VS Data Source Item in Sitecore

Hi All, Welcome back, in this post we will see about the difference between context item and data source item in sitecore.

Context Item vs Data Source Item

Context Item:

API

       var contextItem=RenderingContext.Current.ContextItem

• Context Item is the item that is mapped to the current URL.
• Item holds the presentation details to render the page.

DataSource Item:

       Data source Item can be set in the component definition item .

API

       var contextItem=RenderingContext.Current.Rendering.Item

Advantages of using data source item:

• Easily we can change the item
• Fallback item(if item is not found) is the context item
• Components become more reusable.

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