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Aug 17, 2018
A Beginner's Guide To Creating A Static Site Using React, Gatsby, Contentful And Netlify
For the past decade, my go-to choice of CMS for client and personal projects has been Wordpress. In fact, apart from one embarassing and short-lived design forum called Lethal GFX which used PHPBB, almost everything I've built has used it. Recently, I've been teaching myself React and wanted to rebuild my personal Wordpress site using my new-found React skills. Let me share a beginner's guide to how I spun up my personal site using Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify.
Aug 15, 2018
Contentful August developer update
In this post, we’re covering our latest changes, favorite UI Extension, and articles from the past month.
Aug 7, 2018
Develop, edit & deploy websites entirely in the cloud with the CodeSandbox, Contentful and Netlify trio
Setting up a development machine can be a tedious process. Building software products relies heavily on things like your favorite editor or IDE to be productive, it depends on installed dependencies like databases, shell programs or servers to actually run and update your software. Turns out you really can develop websites, make them editable and later deploy them from any computer using powerful online services today.
Aug 1, 2018
An extremely picky developer's take on static site generators for PHP: Part 2 - Jigsaw
In the first article of the series we took a look at Sculpin, the PHP static site generator which is currently the most starred on Github. Today we’re exploring Jigsaw, a tool which promises to bring a Laravel-based approach to the world of PHP static site generators (SSGs).
Jul 23, 2018
A Serverless alternative to WordPress (community post)
In all my career I always had to battle with a WordPress installation, first it was my personal blog then it was the public facing website of companies I worked for. It’s not in the scope of this post to elicit the flaws and fragility of the WordPress platform, but my main drivers as CTO of Labrador were...
Jul 20, 2018
Making the most of Marketo with UI extensions and Lambda functions
Marketo offers a suite of marketing automation tools that addresses the different subfields of marketing and hence, can be utilized extensively by the various arms of a full-blown marketing department. We at Contentful use Marketo as one of the solutions to handle duties performed by our marketing folks, such as forms on our landing pages.
Jul 18, 2018
Launch fast, iterate faster: How to evolve your digital products with environments
We are extending space environments with two additional features: supporting environments with webhook filtering and enabling non-admin roles access environments. This enables you to define sophisticated deployment scenarios and easily integrate it into the CD/CI pipeline of your choice.
Jul 18, 2018
Successful content modeling: five ways to get it right
Rick Madigan, Digital Strategist at MMT Digital, covers how businesses can ensure that they start their content modeling process on the right foot and eliminate inefficiencies well into the project process.
Jul 17, 2018
The understated innovation of static site generators
This article is a reflection on the bigger picture around the new generation of static sites generators that are currently gaining traction and adoption. We’re now seeing a new wave of static site generators that no longer are limited to publishing needs of the developer audience (as in, manage your content completely on GitHub), and instead have the ambition of becoming *the* new tool for content publishing.
Jul 11, 2018
Viewing Contentful Data in Neo4j (community post)
This article introduces Contentful (a cloud-hosted, headless, Content Management System (CMS)) and the graph database Neo4j. I have written a utility that allows data stored in Contentful to be imported into a Neo4j graph database. I’ll leave detailed explanations of what this can do until after I have explained the two systems. There are probably very few people who are familiar with both of these products, so I will start with an introduction to each.

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