What the Heck are Content Slugs and How Do I Use Them?
What is a slug and why do so many CMS use them? How can they be useful when creating Jamstack sites using a headless CMS? We explore everything you ever wanted to know about the post slug.
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Advanced Hugo Template Tips and Tricks
Hugo's Go-powered templates can accomplish some very powerful templating tasks. In this post, we explore some tips and tricks for building advanced Hugo templates.
Managing Content Relationships in Git-based Headless CMS
Relationships between content items are key to developing a good content model. This post explores how to handle these relationships in a JAMstack site that uses a git-based content management system.
Building Documentation Sites with the JAMstack
Documentation sites are a longstanding and common use case for the JAMstack. In this post we explore some of the options available to you for developing them and show an example of how to build one.
How to Choose Your Static Site Generator
The static site generator (SSG) is a key ingredient in developing a JAMstack web app, but there are literally hundreds to choose from. In this article, Brian Rinaldi offers his advice and guidance on choosing the option that's best for you.
Help Keep Your Community Informed During Quarantine
In an effort to help keep communities informed, Contentful created a template for COVID-19 related community updates and we have enabled this template for one-click deployment via the Stackbit site builder.
How (and Why!) to do Content Marketing as a Developer
Content marketing may not be a skill that comes naturally to many developers, but Peter Thaleikis shares his reasons why developers should care about it and advice on getting started with it.
Best Practices for Working with the JAMstack and an API-based CMS
There may be stumbling blocks when connecting a JAMstack site to a API-based headless CMS and, in this post, we'll look at what these are and how to mitigate them.
Build Your First Sourcebit Plugin
Sourcebit is a fully-extensible open source project that can connect any data source with a JAMstack site. In this post, we'll learn how you can build a plugin to connect to a data source, target SSG or transform data.
Getting Started with Ecommerce and the JAMstack
A look at some of the options for building an ecommerce site using the JAMstack including a demo that shows how to easily build am ecommerce site using a headless CMS and Snipcart.
Bringing Next.js to the JAMstack
Next.js recently added a bunch of new features geared specifically for JAMstack sites. In this post, Simon Hanukaev shows how a new project called Sourcebit can help make these even more powerful when working with a CMS-connected site.
AMP for the JAMstack
Despite the controversy that has surrounded it, AMP has become a requirement for certain types of sites. Stephen Keep shows us when and why you may need AMP and how to implement it on a Hugo site.
Data-driven JAMstack with Sourcebit
Sourcebit is a new open source project that aims to make it easy for developers to connect their JAMstack site to data coming from a broad range of sources. In this tutorial, we explore how to use it.
3 Strategies for Migrating from Wordpress to JAMstack
Migrating from Wordpress to JAMstack offers a number of benefits, but it can be difficult to know what the best strategy for transitioning content is. In this post, Brian Rinaldi shares some potential strategies for making the move.
Voice Assistants and the JAMstack
Raymond Camden explores how to create an Alexa or Google Home integration with your JAMstack site by leveraging serverless functions that access the existing data.
Build Your Own JAMstack API with Netlify Functions and Zapier Webhooks, Part 2
A step-by-step tutorial showing how to automatically update your JAMstack site with data connected to over 1500 services via Zapier webhooks and Netlify Functions.
Build Your Own JAMstack API with Netlify Functions and Zapier Webhooks, Part 1
A step-by-step tutorial showing how to connect a JAMstack site to over 1500 services via Zapier webhooks and Netlify Functions.
Extending JAMstack: 10 APIs and Tools to check out in 2020
The ongoing conversation about JAMstack has moved from being just a stack for creating static sites to a stack for developing dynamic web applications. Let’s take a look at an extensive list of APIs and tools you can leverage.