The Contentful developer newsletter: Summer of GraphQL
We are wrapping up our summer of GraphQL, but there’s still the whole month of September to tune in to our live streams!
GraphQL live streams
Every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. CEST, our DevRel team and guests will hang out on YouTube Live to talk about GraphQL and answer questions.
Past episodes
Missed a livestream? You can catch up on past episodes!
What’s your query? Contentful’s new GraphQL course. We started off by making a cake spin with GraphQL and create-react-app.
Data federation using GraphQL with Hasura and Contentful. Our guest, Praveen Durairaju from Hasura, guided us through working with GraphQL in Hasura using content in Contentful.
What’s your query? GraphQL and RichText. The team is back together, working with a RichText field to finish up our app in React.
Everything you need to know about schema stitching. Khaled Garbaya is our resident Gatsby expert at Contentful — and he’s really fun to play board games with.
More episodes to come! Stay tuned and check out our calendar for more information.
Exciting things from the internet
Error handling with GraphQL
This year’s GraphQL Summit was a lot of fun. My favorite talk was on error handling by Sasha Solomon. You can catch it on YouTube or on Medium.
Great new Gatsby Egghead course
It’s taught by our very own Khaled Garbaya, helping you build an advanced React app with Gatsby.
Build a Land Acknowledgement Text Line
Learn how to build a land acknowledgement text line with Node.js, Twilio and Puppeteer by the legend Sam Agnew.
Awesome Contentful
We revamped our awesome list on GitHub. We're going to start fresh with a list of great community apps. If you have anything running, let us know by opening a pull request in the repository!
We'd love to see what you built. And, if you have requests for apps that should exist, feel free to let the community know by filing an issue in the project-requests repo.
Awesome people making awesome things
Supercharge your JAMstack website with Gatsby, Contentful, and Netlify
Ishan Manandhar will help you with simple steps on how you can create your next website or blog with easily integrated content management.
Gridsome, GraphQL and Contentful
Lucien Bénié has a tutorial on how to build a static website with Contentful and Gridsome
Integrate Netlify, Next.js and Contentful
This is a great tutorial by one of our favorite Developers, Cassidy Williams.
New video series by Hasura — featuring Contentful
Vishwa Mehta was an awesome guest on our last DreamStacks podcast and now she’s created her own video series. Check out her video and tutorial: Adding Contentful as a Remote Schema in Hasura.
Thank you for being awesome and part of our community!
If you build something that you’d like to share with the community, please reach out over email, Twitter or join our Slack org.
The Contentful corner
Extensibility Survey
Have you ever built a UI Extension or Contentful app? We want to hear from you!
Fill out this developer survey so we can learn how to improve your experience with Contentful’s Extensibility APIs and the App Framework. It shouldn’t take more than three minutes.
Take the survey here → http://ctfl.io/extensibility-survey
Content Modeling Workshop
Sign up for our upcoming online workshop with Sr. Content Solutions Architect Marcelo Lewin to learn how to build a well-structured content model for ecommerce.
GraphQL Playground
Stefan Judis created this GraphQL Playground app to use right in the Contentful UI.
Contentful tip
Did you know that you can rename fields in Contentful? Be careful though — when you rename fields your source code has to be adjusted. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to maintain a stellar content model.
Changelog
Customize the appearance of editors
This release allows anyone to easily introduce new editors or override the default editor for a content type. These options are now configurable in the settings of a content type.
UI Extensions SDK v3.18 released
We’ve added support for getting the current target state of an app.
Decreased in time to receive autosave events via webhooks
The auto_save webhook will decrease from 20 seconds to 5 seconds.
We hope you continue to visit our Dev portal, where you can read other newsletters, view our video series and join our Slack. Let us know via Twitter how we can continue to help you make awesome things.
Until then, stay safe and talk to you next month!
