contentful-metalsmith
A Metalsmith' plugin to generate files using content from Contentful
About
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.
Example
To get an idea on how this works, you can check out an example blog site which is completely generated using contentful-metalsmith.
Getting started
Install
$ npm install contentful-metalsmith --save
Configure required globals
When using the metalsmith cli you can 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",
"entry_key": "_key",
"entry_extension": "md",
"contentful": {
"content_type": "2wKn6yEnZewu2SCCkus4as"
}
}
}
}
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',
'entry_key': '_key',
'entry_extension': 'md',
'contentful': {
'content_type': '2wKn6yEnZewu2SCCkus4as'
}
}))
Global parameters:
acccess_token
space_id
entry_key
entry_extension
You 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.
Create files based on the files defined in your source folder
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
- render
posts.html
providing data of the entries of content typepost
- render several single files with the template
post.html
providing the data of a particular post
To read more on source file parameters and settings read the source file documentation.
License
MIT