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How to Update Static Content in Next.js Automatically with Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR)
By Colby Fayock
Having a Headless CMS gives us a lot of flexibility for how we build apps and display content, but with our frontend decoupled from our backend, it won’t automatically stay up to date. To fix this, we can use Next.js Incremental Static Regeneration to keep our content fresh with configurable cache invalidation. What is a...
How to Automatically Optimize Headless WordPress Images and Videos with the Cloudinary Plugin
Media optimization is a critical part of delivering performant apps, but when dealing with a headless CMS like WordPress, at what point do you integrate for a great developer experience? We can use the Cloudinary WordPress plugin to easily provide blanket optimization of any type of WordPress site, headless or not. Note: if you’re currently...
How to Authenticate Spotify Web API Requests in Next.js with Netlify API Auth
The web is full of awesome APIs that we can use to add feature sto our apps, but often using those APIs includes a long process of registering an app and figuring out authentication so you can simply make a request. With Netlify’s new API Authentication, we can easily enable third party services and instantly...
How to Personalize Content & Jamstack Web Experiences with Uniform & Next.js
Building apps on the Jamstack gives us fast and reliable apps, but just because our front end may be static, doesn’t mean it can’t be dynamic. How can we use Uniform to give the control of content back to those who actually manage the content and add a personalization layer to our Jamstack apps with...
How to Create Pages in Next.js with Static & Dynamic Data
Next.js is a powerful web framework that allows developers to easily spin up new React applications, but what if we want to add data to our pages? We’ll look at how we can use the Next.js data fetching APIs to create both static and dynamic pages. Why is creating pages important in React? Before we...
How to Use Browser Event Listeners in React for Search and Autocomplete
The web (mostly) revolves around interactions, where people might be trying to accomplish a task or check in on something. As developers, we need a way to hook into these interactions regardless of the tools we use. While React gives us a lot of help with this out-of-the-box, how can we break free to leverage...
How to Automate Deployments on Content Change in WordPress with WP Webhooks and Netlify
WordPress and JavaScript-based frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby make powerful combos, delivering a great CMS editing experience with a fast and performant front end, but if we’re using WordPress headlessly, we don’t automatically have a mechanism to trigger a new deploy. How can we take advantage of web hooks to make sure our websites are...
How to Use Astro to Build React Apps without JavaScript
In a rapidly changing JavaScript-based world, it seems like there’s a new thing to learn every day, but not everything has clear promise in the value it’s able to bring to the dev community. Enter Astro, coming from the team that brought you Snowpack, with the ultimate goal of shipping less JavaScript. What is Astro?...
How to Add Custom Fields in Headless WordPress with ACF & WPGraphQL
WordPress is King CMS for a reason. It provides a great editing experience and is well known for those who consider themselves technical or not. But with a default installation, the content you can manage is a bit limited. How can we extend that with custom fields via ACF and use that data when querying...
How to Authenticate Next.js Apps with Twitter & NextAuth.js
Part of what makes the web a great place is the ability for developers to personalize content and app experiences to the person using it. How can we add authentication to a Next.js app to tailor those experiences for our visitors? What is authentication? Authentication is the process of identifying a person or entity and...