Gatsby + Strapi
August 10, 2019
UPDATE
I had to rollback to using the markdown files for now since Heroku + MongoDB sleeps and clears off the database from time to time.
I managed to convert this blog site from using markdown templates and took advantage of the following stack:
The above stack was based on Strapi’s blog tutorial.
What I have achieved so far are:
- Static site rendering via GatsbyJS
- Content management and API via Strapi as a data source of GatsbyJS
- Automated deployments using Netlify and Heroku
Caveats:
CRITICAL I also had to put a Heroku Scheduler to ping the CMS so it will be kept alive or else all the content will be erased. CRITICAL Since I’m using a sandbox environment in Heroku, whenever I deploy changes in my Strapi codebase, all my articles inside the mongodb will be erased. It is best to migrate this to a better service soon.
Looking forward to put this to good use in my tech team.
