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Still digging around for Jamstack templates, I built a site with Next.js and Contentful following the instructions in this starter repository created by Salma Alam-Naylor. What I like most about it...

We’re excited to announce the launch of two more courses in the new Developer Learning Path. These courses are specially designed for developers who want to roll up their sleeves and learn by doing.

Introducing the Developer Showcase Spotlight: Gatsby Bricks is a a passion project made with Contentful and Gatsby to showcase LEGO creations made by Daniel Polant and his family. See how it was bu...

Folks, we have an important question. Are you considering migrating your content from Drupal to Contentful? Then this detailed guide by Technical Project Manager Patrick Geers will show you how. Ca...

GraphQL is a powerful way to organize how you communicate with your backend services and databases. While it’s easy to start making your first query with GraphQL with very little research, Salma Al...

We're delighted to announce the release of tables for Rich Text fields and made them as user-friendly as possible. If you can make a table in Word, Google Docs, or Confluence, we’re confident you c...

Lumbered with a monolithic CMS, Fitch Ratings found success by working with Contentful partner Appnovation and sticking to four core principles throughout the replatforming process. These principle...

Back in November 2021, Luce Carter gave a talk at Fast Forward about the blogging journey that led to her using Contentful. She didn’t have time to say as much as she wanted to about all the differ...

On-demand Builders are part of the Jamstack evolution. You can pre-render and cache the essential and most trafficked pages in your build pipeline and then fill up your CDN cache over time with all...

If you work in an industry or role where you bump shoulders with developers every now and again – either at the water cooler or over Slack for you remote folks – you’ve likely encountered the term ...

Let’s imagine that you’re a content strategist at an ecommerce company with a global presence, and your task is to introduce content governance into the wider organization. Not only that, but you h...

Working in recruitment, Kevin Harris has made it his mission to help members of the LGBTQIA+ community find jobs and feel comfortable where they work, whether it be at Contentful or somewhere else....

In a recent webinar, the team at Heap sat down with Dina Apostolou, VP of Marketing at Contentful, to share their rebrand story, “How We Built a World-Class Website Using Heap + Contentful.” Keep r...

We’re delighted to welcome Harshil to the Developer Relations team at Contentful! Harshil’s path to developer experience has been an interesting one — ranging from building communities to experimen...

Images and videos are some of the most powerful elements on websites and apps. As the demand for imagery grows, creators face the mounting challenge of maintaining, organizing, and leveraging their...

Project management software makers Notion rebuilt their entire marketing site from scratch, choosing to go with a statically generated architecture. Two months and 109 React components later, they'...

Over the past year, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has invested in tooling to eliminate static content across their web frontend. This is the story of how they did it and why it’s important.

This tutorial is for developers who want to learn how to build an ecommerce store with rich CMS features from scratch. See what's possible with Medusa and Contentful, the benefits of such an integr...

Guest posting for the Contentful blog, Paul Scanlon shows how he built his Rise of the Robots project using Contentful and Gatsby. See how jamstack creativity and performance can coexist without sa...

If you aren’t already building and investing in custom apps, now is a great time to get started. In this post we’ll introduce the App Framework for anyone who hasn’t used it yet, highlight examples...

The URL redirect is central to the web content management experience thanks to its ability to ensure content managers can move content without a negative impact on search engine rankings. Let’s app...

The engineering team at DoorDash spent 2021 building a scalable, highly performant platform that would allow marketers to standardize and scale up internationally – without the need for engineers o...

"Delight" is a word that gets thrown around a lot in the tech industry. Product designer Grace Gross explains what it means at Contentful, and how we use delight to address the needs of our users.

At Contentful we’re always looking for ways to show our developer community some love. Through interviews, surveys, and feedback loops we listen to what you have to say. One thing we’ve learned is ...

One of the market leaders in the European D2C (direct-to-consumer) pet food market, Pets Deli is a purveyor of high-quality food and supplies for both feline or canine companions. For Black Friday ...

Contentful enables content creators to structure their content in tiny building blocks. You’re in charge of defining an author, a recipe or a blog post data structure with a few button clicks. And ...

In a galaxy far, far away, there lived an individual who was known as the grill and breakfast guy. So he set out on an epic quest to become not just a Padawan Chef but a Master Chef, like those who...

For anyone building a website today, the same question arises time and again. How do we build sites with a great architecture that work well for the teams that have to use it every day? For all the...

How one basketball fan built a March Madness app using the Contentful app framework and ReactJS. A good place to start with custom apps is the Contentful Learning Center where you’ll find courses t...

In this post, we provide guidance on how to create a digital lookbook with Contentful. While these best practices, practical tips and potential pitfalls are tailored to this specific project, they ...

A mobile app to fight world hunger? That's how ShareTheMeal is revolutionizing the nonprofit landscape. Learn about the supporting role Contentful plays in its astonishing impact. ShareTheMeal isn’...

What do a car, an iceberg, and Leonardo DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man all have in common? No, we’re not setting you up for a punchline. All of the above are examples of systems thinking. Systems are prod...

The Contentful Marketplace is a terrific way for users to extend and expand the capabilities of the Contentful Content Platform, with more than 58 apps available since launching in March 2021. Case...

My first byline for the Contentful blog, highlighting all the spectacular content we'd published in 2021. If there’s a pattern, there’s clearly a lot of people seeking to learn more about GraphQL, ...