contentful-metalsmith
Advanced tools
A Metalsmith' plugin to generate files using content from Contentful
This plugin for metalsmith allows you to build a static site using the data stored at Contentful. It is built on top of the Contentful JavaScript Client.
To get an idea on how this works, you can check out an example blog site which is completely generated using contentful-metalsmith.
$ npm install contentful-metalsmith
When you use metalsmith using the cli edit your metalsmith.json and add contentful-metalsmith in the plugins section.
// metalsmith.json
{
"source": "src",
"destination": "build",
"plugins": {
"contentful-metalsmith": {
"access_token": "YOUR_CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
"space_id": "YOUR_CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID"
}
}
}
When you use the JavaScript Api add contentful-metalsmith to the used plugins.
metalsmith.source('src')
metalsmith.destination('build')
metalsmith.use(require('contentful-metalsmith')({ 'access_token' : 'YOUR_CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN' }))
Global parameters:
acccess_tokenspace_idYou can find the access_token and space_id in your app at APIs -> Content delivery API Keys.
To read more on all global parameters and settings read the global settings documentation.
We're considering that you use metalsmith-layouts for file rendering. That for the layout key is used for rendered source files and child templates.
source/posts.html
---
title: metalsmith-contentful file
contentful:
content_type: post
layout: post.html
layout: posts.html
---
[OPTIONAL CONTENT]
layouts/posts.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{title}}</title>
<meta name="description" content="No description">
<meta name="author" content="Contentful">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="scss/style.css?v=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<!-- available data fetched from contentful -->
{{#each data.entries }}
<li>
<h2>{{fields.title}}</h2>
<p>{{fields.description}}</p>
<p><a href="{{_fileName}}">Read more</a></p>
</li>
{{/each}}
</ul>
{{contents}}
</body>
</html>
layouts/post.html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{data.fields.title}}</title>
<meta name="description" content="No description">
<meta name="author" content="Contentful">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="scss/style.css?v=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{data.fields.title}}<h1>
<p>{{data.fields.description}}</p>
{{contents}}
</body>
</html>
This example will
posts.html providing data of the entries of content type postpost.html providing the data of a particular postTo read more on source file parameters and settings read the source file documentation.
MIT
FAQs
A Metalsmith's plugin to get content from Contentful
The npm package contentful-metalsmith receives a total of 30 weekly downloads. As such, contentful-metalsmith popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that contentful-metalsmith demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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