Netlify VS Contentful

Netlify Reviews

1. Eleanor Bennett    

   Digital Marketing Specialist at Logit.io | almost 2 years ago
   Useful previews

   As someone who is often creating new pages, Netlify's preview makes the review process easier. You can also use the generated URL from Netlify's preview to run an SEO audit prior to going live. This is very useful for spotting bugs or broken redirects.

Contentful Reviews

1. Eleanor Bennett    

   Digital Marketing Specialist at Logit.io | almost 2 years ago
   Very generous free plan

   The free plan of Contentful is generous enough to allow us to run a successful technology blog without having to pay for any overheads to run it. We used them as an alternative to the previously used Ghost. We have experienced a lot of growth since this migration.

   🏁 Competitors: Ghost

Netlify mentions (104)

• Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola!

  Wait as the Netlify CI/CD robots work their magic to build and push my updated blog site with the shiny new post to the open internet. - Source: dev.to / 26 days ago

• How to Use Google Drive to Host Your Website

  Forwarding: Forward or mask a domain to the Drive URL using services like netlify. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a (Virtual) Events Site

  The site is deployed to Netlify. There's really nothing special to share about that since Netlify makes the deployment super easy. A quirk of Hugo on Netlify means that I do need to specify the Hugo version as an environment variable but otherwise the deployment just works. One specific requirement of my site is to override the default Hugo build method to include the -F or --buildFuture flag because my events are... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• My brother asked me to build a website for his new small business

  Cons are that it might be a bit heavy hitting for a simple website. You may find there to be a cost to host it, whereas using a static site generator will allow you to use the free tier on netlify.com. SSG's are easier to use and less work to do, including less security to worry about. Source: 7 months ago

• Introducing Sailhouse, the easiest way to send events ⛵️

  Sailhouse is being built by people with experience, and passion, for developer tooling. With experience at industry/category-defining developer-focused companies such as Netlify, we know how to build a strong offering. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

Contentful mentions (9)

• My blog post workflow

  Next, I’ll copy and paste the draft text to my CMS. I’ve been using Contentful since working there in 2021. I use Rich Text rather than Markdown for my posts and what’s great about this is that copying and pasting from Notion preserves hyperlinks and formatting. If I’m including anything else like code samples, images and other embedded media, I add those as separate linked entries manually whilst working through... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• How to Style Markdown in Next.JS Using React-Markdown and SASS

  If you have a blog or website with articles or long text documents, markdown is your friend. It makes authoring documents so much easier and more intuitive than straight HTML. Markdown has a far smaller learning curve than HTML and can easily be taught to non-tech-savvy writers. Markdown editors are also built-in to headless CMSs like Contentful. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Looking to Create a Wordpress Style Website with Python / Flask

  It depends on the requirements, but this might actually call for a headless CMS like Forestry.io or Contentful coupled with a Static Site Generator like Hugo. The CMS will manage users/permissions/data hierarchy and provide a simple frontend for users to add content, lay out pages, etc. And then when they save a change, the SSG will re-run and render everything to static HTML/CSS/JS. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to Create a Blog Using Next.js and Contentful CMS

  Contentful is a headless content management system (CMS). Headless simply means there is no front-end to display the content to the consumer. It's basically a database, but much easier to setup and maintain than a traditional relational database. Contentful provides a very easy-to-use API for fetching and managing content. They also support GraphQL queries if you're into that. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Test Post Dev To

  Contentful has become my favorite Headless CMS. I use it to generate static web pages, this blog, and storing other forms of data, such as user profiles. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago