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Date Published
Author
Salma Alam-Naylor
Word count
1691
Language
English
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None

Summary

This article discusses the author's experience building a simple microblogging platform using Contentful, a headless CMS. The author aimed to keep things simple and focused on learning the basics of Contentful without getting bogged down by other front-end frameworks. They created a content type for their microblog post with fields such as text, image, external link, and panther emotes, which represent their mood. The author used vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build the application, and opted for the GraphQL API to fetch data from Contentful. They provided a quick-start guide and a tutorial on how to set up the content type and fetch data using the GraphQL API. The goal of this project is to create a lightweight microblogging site that can be easily built and customized by developers.