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title: "Development"
slug: "development"
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# Development

Learn more about extending SXA by reading the following topics:

- [Add a dynamic placeholder to a rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/add-a-dynamic-placeholder-to-a-rendering-variant.html "Add a dynamic placeholder to a rendering variant")
- [Change or add database content](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/organizing-modules-according-to-helix-principles.html "Organizing modules according to Helix principles")
- [Add modules to site and tenant scaffolding](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/add-modules-to-site-and-tenant-scaffolding.html "Add modules to Site and Tenant scaffolding")
- [Build a rendering that includes variants](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/build-a-rendering-that-includes-variants.html "Build a rendering that includes variants")
- [Copy and customize a rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/copy-and-customize-a-rendering.html "Copy and customize a rendering")
- [Flowchart to determine whether to create a custom rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/flowchart-to-determine-whether-to-create-a-custom-rendering.html "Flowchart to determine whether to create a custom rendering")
- [Create a new SXA module](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/create-a-new-sxa-module--mvc-.html "Create a new SXA module (MVC)")
- [Data sources](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/data-sources.html "Data sources")
- [Use a prefix to set the data source context](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/use-a-prefix-to-set-the-data-source-context.html "Use a prefix to set the data source context")
- [Run a source field report to set the data source context](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/run-a-source-field-report-to-set-the-data-source-context.html "Run a source field report to set the data source context")
- [The SXA pipelines](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/the-sxa-pipelines.html "The SXA pipelines")
- [The SXA script library](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/the-sxa-script-library.html "The SXA script library")
- [Walkthrough: Building a simple rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/walkthrough--building-a-simple-rendering.html "Walkthrough: Building a simple rendering")
- [Customize rendering HTML per site](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/customize-rendering-html-per-site.html "Customize rendering HTML per site")
- [Embed HTML in SXA](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/embed-html-in-sxa.html "Embed HTML in SXA")
- [Create a custom token for a rendering variant](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/create-a-custom-token-for-a-rendering-variant.html "Create a custom token for a rendering variant")
- [Add a data source setting for an existing rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/add-a-data-source-setting-for-an-existing-rendering.html "Add a data source setting for an existing rendering")
- [Use the Component wizard to create a custom rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/use-the-component-wizard-to-create-a-custom-rendering.html "Use the Component wizard to create a custom rendering")
- [Enable adding a background image to a rendering](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/enable-adding-a-background-image-to-a-rendering.html "Enable adding a background image to a rendering")
- [Work with content tokens](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/93/sitecore-experience-accelerator/content-tokens.html "Content tokens")