Real World Contentful Lessons
Chris Langager
Digital Care Team
What you will take away:
- What it looks like to use Contentful in the real world
- How to evaluate if Contentful is the right choice for you
What is a CMS?
We Are Using Contentful For
- Writers creating/editing content
- Serving content at godaddy.com/help
Migrating Data
Option #1:
Serve Directly From Contentful
-
Very Simple!
- no servers
- No server-side rendering
- No place for server-side business logic
<h1>A Very Helpful Article</h1>
<p>Follow these simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Step 1</li>
<li>Step 2</li>
</ol>
<internal>
Yo dawg, if you are helping a customer
with this issue you may find this
helpful: https://internal.godaddy.com/something
</internal><h1>A Very Helpful Article</h1>
<p>Follow these simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Step 1</li>
<li>Step 2</li>
</ol><h1>A Very Helpful Article</h1>
<p>Follow these simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Step 1</li>
<li>Step 2</li>
</ol>
<p>
Yo dawg, if you are helping a customer
with this issue you may find this
helpful: https://internal.godaddy.com/something
</p>internal traffic
customer traffic
Option #2:
SSR From Contentful
- Pretty Simple!
- SSR & Business Logic
- Response times too slow
-
Difficult to implement requirements
- ex. Search
Option #3:
Replicate Data from Contentful
So is it worth it?
If you've already decided to use a CMS, Contentful is a great choice.
- Great API
- Great documentation
- Good Admin UI
What are you getting?
What are you not getting?
- Well thought out data models & API
- Good admin UI
- Fantastic permissions controls
- First class localization support
- Frontend UI
- Business specific requirements
- search
- auto incrementing ids
It's worth is for us
...but probably not for everybody.
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