Gatsby, Netlify and Contentful - The Triple Tag Team For Content Management Success
I've been using Gatsby for the better part of 6 mo...
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Great post! I'll definitely have to run through the steps in detail as time allows and set up an example site. I did something similar with a different set of technologies but I like the auto build web hooks and such. I might try to do something similar but swap out react for the pwa-starter-kit from the polymer team and see how that goes.
Yep. Gatsby, Contenful or Netlify taken individually, can work with other technologies too. I'd love to hear how that goes. Do let me know!
So I went all in on this. I ended up building out a static site generator called Orison on top of lit-html, which is the new Polymer templating library. It is pretty awesome to create a static site with lit-html templating, as it is so close to bare bones JavaScript, making the entire developer experience built on native web technologies even at the site generation step. I am in the process of using this approach to create multiple ecommerce sites for my clients. They are not quite ready to share but over all this JAMstack / Contentful + Netlify combo with is a great way to build websites.
Glad the article was able to help. Sounds like an interesting project you're working on.
Friend, you are great and really SAVED my day with the "webhook" explanation! I was getting crazy on how to set a proper cache plan to avoid triggering a .cache clear any time I was adding a post or modify an old one in Contentful. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for the post. Im currently using a setup almost the as this one for my website.
Gatsby and Netlify but the content is not pulled from Contentful or any external headless CMS. Im using local files instead in markdown as content source.
Ouch 39$ / month for Contentful is quite pricey. That's the cost of a Safari books Subscription or something similar. Have you considered netlifycms.org/ ?
Contentful has a pretty expansive free plan. A lot of small businesses and projects can get by on the free version for quite a while. I'd have to take a look at Netlify CMS too. Thanks!
DatoCMS is also has an easy integration with Gatsby and Netlify. A little more affordable at their first paid tier as well. One of my favorite features of Contentful and Dato is that they both work with gatsby-image, which is possibly my favorite part of Gatsby.
This is great, thanks for this tutorial! I only knew about Gatsby before, but this combo is a game changer
I'm glad you found it useful. We're really lucky to have with such great tools to build with.
thank you! nice article