CMS Integration

Using a headless CMS allows you to manage your website’s content without directly editing code. Now, let me show you how you can easily integrate popular CMS platforms with your template bellow.

First, you need to choose an CMS or create your own CMS custom solution to manage your content. Popular third party can be:

• Contentful: A modern, API-driven CMS.
• Sanity: Flexible and developer-friendly.
• Strapi: An open-source headless CMS.
• Other CMS’s: Astro supports integration with many headless CMS platforms via APIs.

Steps to Integrate a CMS

Here’s an example of simple custom CMS integration using Contentful:

1. Set Up the CMS:

   • Create an account on your chosen CMS platform.
   • Define your content models (e.g., blog posts, pages, etc).
   • Create your content.

2. Connect Your Template:

   • Install the required packages using npm or yarn:

     npm install @contentful/rich-text-react-renderer

   • Configure the API connection in your Astro project:

     import { createClient } from "contentful";
     
     // import pre-defined env variables
     const client = createClient({
       space: process.env.CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID,
       accessToken: process.env.CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN
     });

3. Fetch and Display Content:

   • Use the CMS API to fetch content and render it on your pages:

     const entries = await client.getEntries({ content_type: "blogPost" });