Contentful September developer update
It's already September - that means fall has arrived... along with new updates from Contentful to you. In this month's developer update, we’re covering our latest changes, video tutorials, and articles from the past month.
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Our favorite posts
How to set up your own knowledge base with React, Contentful, and Netlify
Stefan Judis, a developer evangelist at Contentful, created an awesome video tutorial series to walk through the steps to creating a React site that helps you document things you learn. Make sure to check out both part one and part two of his tutorial series.
An extremely picky developer's take on static site generators for PHP: Part 2 - Jigsaw
Davide Borsatto, PHP ecosystem developer at Contentful, takes a moment to update his evaluation of PHP static site generators by exploring Jigsaw, a tool which promises to bring a Laravel-based approach to the world of PHP.
Getting Sh*t Done with Jekyll
Ronan Berder, founder of Wiredcraft, takes a look into what it takes to build a larger website (like starbucks.com from the ground up with Jekyll), keep it easy updatable, and what it takes to make it scale.
Meet us on the Road
Conferences
September 14th - 15th - Buffalo, NY, USA - Code Daze 2.0
September 24th - Dallas, TX, USA - Digital Transformation North America 2018
Contentful Developer Meetups
Berlin FOOBar Meetups
September 26th - Emacs Berlin Meetup
September 28th - Hexagon UX Event
September 29th - Hackcon EU
Keep up with all Contentful events by visiting our events page.
Change Log
Added webhook templates to trigger CI/CD processes when content changes
We added webhook templates to trigger builds on CI/CD/PaaS services:
Trigger a build with the Circle CI
Trigger a build with Travis CI
Trigger a build with Gitlab
Trigger a build with Heroku
Trigger a cloud function with Webtask
Secret values for webhook headers
Headers provided for a webhook can now be marked as secret. A secret header value cannot be revealed in plain text anywhere in the system, including the Web App, API responses and webhook logs. Only the webhook target can receive the value of the secret header.
Headers can be marked as "secret" in the Web App webhook editor or using the Content Management API.
Stay updated & contribute
Keep up with all Contentful changes by visiting our changelog.
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