Office hours

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JAMstack radio #16 was released

Rouven and Stefan have been guests on JAMstack radio and talked about Contentful, baseball and APIs.

The new developer portal is online!

We worked hard on it and are extremely proud.

Running a serverless voter campaign with Contentful and Twilio

Polly Politician is looking to get voted into office. She has teamed up with Selly Celebrity, and together they are running an SMS voter campaign. This article will explain how to integrate Contentful and the Twilio Programmable SMS API with the Flask microframework for Python. The article will also highlight how to set up webhooks in Contentful, and how to deploy it all to AWS Lambda to make the app genuinely serverless — all in the name of getting Polly Politician as many votes as possible.

Faster static site builds Part 1- Process only what you need

Static sites are gaining popularity. Big publishers like the Smashing Magazine rely on static site generation to serve content faster. And they do it without worrying about security fixes or scalable server setups. All you need for static site generation is a CI service that kicks off your build and a static hosting provider to serve your generated static files which we then enrich with serverless technologies.

Building a portfolio site with Contentful, Next.js and Netlify

When I wanted to make my portfolio site fast and easy to maintain, I landed on the following solution to create a static site using Contentful as my content manager, Next.js to display the data, and Netlify for hosting.

Using Graphviz to Visualize Structured Content from Contentful Spaces

By reading this article, you will learn how to use Graphviz to draw beautiful, comprehensive directed graph diagrams and utilize it to visualize your structured content from any Contentful space.

How I fell in love with an API-first CMS

Content management for the web can be hard. But then I found an API-first CMS that lets me build sites the ways I want to — with true separation between code and content.

Why Running Your Own CMS is a Bad Idea

Maintaining your own CMS is hard work. Two weeks ago we saw the unfolding of Drupalgeddon 2 — a vulnerability that left many servers running Drupal open to attack. But where there is despair there is hope: learn how you can keep your content secure by switching to Contentful's content infrastructure.

Get up to speed on composable entries

Learn why composable entries is a good approach to self-service page building.

The missing puzzle pieces for deserializing JSON in Swift 4

If you’re thinking of building an application in Swift that interfaces with a JSON API to return arrays with mixed types, you’ve come to the right place. This post will teach you how to take a heterogeneous JSON array and return your types, because after all, types are your thing — you’re a Swift developer.

One to Zero: How to build a static website using a zero configuration toolkit

Learn about x0, a zero-configuration toolkit for React development of static sites, and see how you can create a static website using zero-config toolkit stack of x0 paired with Contentful for content infrastructure and Netlify which hosts static websites.

How to serverless your parenting skills - or the story of how I learn bad dad jokes from a bot

Except for a poor sense of humor, nothing goes better with dad jokes than Python. This is the story of how I used the Telegram API to build a Contentful-backed bot to serve me jokes on demand.

Upgrade the site from Wordpress to Gatsby and Contentful

Ton Nguyen shared how he migrated from WordPress to Contentful and hit a very good Page Speed Insights score.

Building Eviction Free NYC with GatsbyJS + Contentful

Dan Kass shared the approach they took to build evictionfreenyc.org using Gatsby and Contentful.

How to build a React Redux application with API-first CMS Contentful

Avishek Jana took a look at what it takes to build a React/Redux app with Contentful. It's a perfect introduction to the topic!

Trying out Gatsby at Work & Co

Sarah Mogin shares her experience with Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify in great detail!

Wordpress to Contentful migration

Hendrik Wallbaum walks us through the migration process from Wordpress to Contentful in awesome detail.

Angular And Contentful – Content Management For Single-Page Web Apps

Sebastian Eschweiler put together a great introduction on how to get started with Contentful and Angular 5/6. It's available as article and video – great stuff!

It can work (easily!): Serverless React and web crawlers

Omosola Odetunde explains how they made their Contentful stack at Clue crawlable for SEO.

Building a Blog with React and Contentful

Aaron Klaser shows in great detail what it takes to build a blog with React and Contentful. Excellent tutorial!

Contentful Express Tutorial #01

Cormac McCann described quite nicely how you can get started with a Contentful powered Express site.

How to use API-first platforms to build your websites faster

Mike Sedzielewski goes into the benefits of using an API first approach to building websites.

Contentful Developers Meetup London #5

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how other developers are using Contentful to build digital products at our 5th Developers Meetup in London. As always ...

Contentful Developers Meetup Berlin #7: Using GraphQL

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how GraphQL is expanding the possibilities for serving content with API driven Content Infrastructure. As always, we ...

Contentful Developers Meetup Amsterdam #2

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how other developers are using Contentful to build digital products at our 2nd Developers Meetup in Amsterdam. As alw ...

Contentful Developers Meetup San Francisco #5

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how other developers are using Contentful to build digital products at our 5th Developers Meetup in San Francisco. As ...

Contentful Developers Meetup NYC #4: Building Serverless Websites

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* See examples of projects built with serverless architecture, and the lessons our speakers learned along the way. As always, ...

Contentful Developers Meetup Toronto #4

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how other developers are using Contentful to build digital products at our 4th Developers Meetup in Toronto. As alway ...

Contentful Developers Meetup Stockholm #4

*If you have a project you'd like to share, let us know* Learn how other developers are using Contentful to build digital products at our 4th Developers Meetup in Stockholm. As alw ...

Angular & Contentful: Cannot create asset inside a space

Secure data per user using contentful

Changing the blog URL from id to title (Contentful & Angular5)

Querying multiple content types from contentful

connecting contentful CMS with gatsby page

Custom Validator using data from Contentful

Contentful with React / Redux, best practices for retrieving data

Async rendering of assets in nextjs shared components

Jekyll host on github pages and rebuild

Caching Contentful content in Node environment

Jekyll: What We've Been Working On

Static Sties with Zero Config Toolkit and Lessons Learned

Hardware Hacking for Web Developers (Berlin node.js meetup)

Building Websites With Gatsby, The Blazing Fast React Framework (Static Sites Meetup)

Ouch I Stepped on a Spike (Static Sites Meetup)

Building Websites with Hugo (Static Sites Meetup)

Look Beyond console.log (Node.js Meetup)

Job Queues, Deployment and Sandboxing (Node.js Meetup)

The Future of Voice UI (UI/UX Meetup)

The Art of Being Busy (UI/UX Meetup)

A Hitchhikers Guide to Structured Data

Contentful Space Environments - Experiment in a Sandbox

Developing Global App Experiences in 2018

Telus Site Builder Demo

Migration CLI Demo with Telus Digital

Building a Headless eCommerce application with Contentful

Powering Social Change With Contentful

ARrrrgh, how do I combine Google's AR Demo and Contentful

Telus Digital 2017 Lessons Learned Using Contentful

Content Modeling is Tricky. Ways to Survive.

Freeletics Wordpress to Contentful exporter

Our friends from Freeletics open sourced their approach to export data from Wordpress to Contentful.

Contentful-wizard

A library to add an interactive content explorer to your contentful-powered project.

angular-contentful-service

A Contentful wrapper for Angular w/ request caching.

contentful-emails

A sample application to fastly build a coding-free tool for emails' content management.

Contentful-Tags-Autocomplete-Extension

A UI-Extension that enriches the tag field with a handy autocompletion.

contentful-graph

A tool to create a visual representation of Contentful content models which helps to get an overview.

contentful-to-algolia

The application syncs content between Contentful and Algolia. You can configure the service to run with Drafts (Preview API) from Contentful and put it in different indexes in Algolia. The prefix of each index can be configured.

Frontend United (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Stefan Judis – Developer Evangelist

Contentful Developers Meetup London #5 (London, United Kingdom)

Shy Ruparel – Developer Evangelist

Web Rebels (Oslo, Norway)

Stefan Judis – Developer Evangelist

Contentful Developers Meetup San Francisco #5 (San Francisco, United States)

David Helmer – Technical Architect

Contentful Developers Meetup Berlin #7: Using GraphQL (Berlin, Germany)

Stephan Schneider – Backend JavaScript Developer

Nikolas Burk – Software Engineer

Contentful Developers Meetup Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Shy Ruparel – Developer Evangelist

Contentful Developers Meetup NYC #4: Building Serverless Websites (New York, United States)

Shy Ruparel – Developer Evangelist

Sarah Mogin – Lead Developer

Contentful Developers Meetup Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)

Stefan Judis – Developer Evangelist

Fronteers 2018 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Stefan Judis – Developer Evangelist

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