Reference component - why deprecated

[fionas76543059]

Hi folks,

I noticed the Reference foundation component recently. You can use it as a pointer to another configured component.  Apparently it is being deprecated. Does anyone know why,  are there drawbacks to working with it ?

thanks 

Fiona

[Mohit_KBansal]

With reference component, content management was a challenge, as reused content is part of main hierarchy/pages. AEM has a better and cleaner approach to using Experience Fragments, which is a good replacement for reference components. 

[fionas76543059]

thanks, that makes sense

[ManviSharma · Accepted solution]

Hi,

> If a component is deprecated then an alternative option would be listed on the documentation link[0]. The alternative to the deprecated components would be the core components listed here[1]. 

[0] https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/release-notes/deprecated-removed-featu...

[1]

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-core-components/using/introduction.html?l...

[fionas76543059]

thanks!