Support Contentful as a content source

[seancdavis]

We are already planning to implement Contentful support. However, you can help us prioritize this work by clicking the 👍 emoji below to add your vote.

[fhub-1]

cant wait to see what next

[calebpdx]

This would be amazing!

[bholmesdev]

Yes now give it to me

[fhub-1]

You are talking about amazing these will be fire bro

[fhub-1]

for once has a front-end dev i would have what it takes to make the work done

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[tkasper]

👍 +1

[seancdavis]

@tkasper Please add 👍 reaction to the original message to add your vote.

[steve-marmalade]

Saw someone give Contentlayer a shout-out on Twitter so I came to check it out. I could definitely see how support for Contentful would allow us to remove a significant amount of boilerplate needed to incorporate content in our NextJS app. Will be excited to try this out once you add support for remote sources.

[digitalbase]

hi everyone.

I'd love to help update the docs and contribute to the plugin. Our company is using contentful for +- 30 content types and +1000 entities and we have all the issues that @schickling talked about in Lee Robinsons interview.:

• very slow build
• content is being fetched multiple times
• too much logic in the contentful-sdk and too much coupling with contentful query language

Now, in the documentation contentful is marked as 'experimental' but going through the code, I can only find code with mocked data.

Is there anything I'm missing?

[schickling]

Thanks for your comment @digitalbase. I'm excited to hear you're looking forward to use Contentlayer together with Contentful. Unfortunately there isn't any update yet in regards to a production-grade Contentful content source (however you can find the experimental source code here).

[itsjavi]

Thanks Johannes @schickling , although I thought this was more going to be a way to download the Contentful posts and convert them to MDX, or am I missing something? One of the reasons I am moving to ContentLayer is to replace Contentful entirely.

I am currently doing that by combinign contentful-export, @contentful/rich-text-html-renderer and turndown, so I can use all content with ContentLayer after some adjustments.

[seancdavis]

@itsjavi The exact approach is still TBD. However, the intention is that Contentlayer makes working with a content source easier, not that it replaces the source.

The approach you're taking to replace Contentful sounds like a good one, and should also work nicely with Contentlayer.

[ziyafenn]

I totally by accident found out about contentlayer and when i saw an example code in the introductory blog post with processing MD content and how easy it is to achieve same with Contentlayer, i shed a tear!

Can't wait for contentful adapter to be released to use contentlayer for my portfolio website.

[leonardo-motta-deel]

currently running a blog using nextjs and contentful, would love to see contentlayer on top of contentful with type safe

[mian678]

I have voted for Contentful as a content source. Done it