How does this all work?

May 25th, 2019

This post was made purely to test that my blog works. However, for those who are interested, I'm using Contentful for managing my blog.

This is because this Portfolio website is built using Gatsby and I was able to take advantage of the gatsby-source-contentful package to very easily deploy with Contentful content. Seeing as I'm hosting my site on Netlify, I was easily able to add a web hook. Doing all of this allows me to use their free offerings to host this site, which is always a bonus.

That's not to say that this is the only way it should be done. For instance, Netlify have their own CMS, but I've been working with Contentful in a professional capacity before. While I've had previous projects hosted on Heroku, which also has the same web hook functionality, I've wanted to try Netlify for a while.

I don't plan on writing too many blog posts. After all, I don't think that many people outside of my current professional circle will care to read it. So this approach suits me fine. As for the framework itself, I had worked on creating part of an interactive catalogue in my current role, and this was using Gatsby.

Once I've cleared up this project, I'll be sure to link to the repository for anyone else to use this as a boilerplate.