Discussion on: How To Build a Static Website With Contentful and Gridsome

[Sam Hulick]

Just a correction:

The proper format for the config file is:

  plugins: [
    {
      use: '@gridsome/source-contentful',
      options: {
        space: 'SPACE_ID',
        accessToken: 'TOKEN',
        host: 'cdn.contentful.com',
        environment: 'master',
        typeName: 'Contentful'
      }
    }
  ],

[Sam Hulick]

Also, this tutorial is maybe missing some steps. When I run gridsome develop after following the steps, I get:

Error: A content type for the ContentfulBlog template does not exist.

[James]

Hi @ffxsam, that would be because you haven't defined a content type that the tutorial uses in Contentful. You need to define a blog post content type in Contentful and depending on what you name that content type, you may need to change some of the query related code.

[Sam Hulick]

Thanks, James! It's been ages since I've messed with this, and we actually wound up using a different CMS solution. But I'll come back to your post if I ever decide to go this route again.

[James]

You're welcome. I understand the switching from one CMS to the next. I've tried numerous, but I think I'm going to stick with Sanity instead of using Contentful.