next-tinacms-contentful

A utility library for using Contentful with TinaCMS and Next.js

• next-tinacms-contentful
  • Usage
    • Installation
    • Fetching Entries On The Server
    • Edit Mode
  • APIs
    • Server-side Methods

Usage

If you are looking to use Contentful in client-side JS, please see one of the following:

• Plain JS
• React

If you are looking to use Contentful inside of Next.js' build-time and serverless logic like API routes, getStaticProps and getServerSideProps, continue reading:

Installation

To install the package, run:

npm install next-tinacms-contentful react-tinacms-contentful tinacms-contentful contentful contentful-management

Fetching Entries On The Server

Fetching A Single Entry

To fetch a single entry, you can use getEntry:

import getEntry from 'next-tinacms-contentful'

const contentfulOptions = {
  spaceId: /* Contentful Space ID */,
  defaultEnvironmentId: /* Contentful environment ID to use by default. Default: master */,
  accessTokens: {
    delivery: /* Contentful delivery access token for the space */,
    preview: /* Contentful preview access token for the space */,
  }
  clientId: /* OAuth App Client ID */,
  redirectUrl: /* OAuth App Callback URL */,
  rateLimit: /* API Rate Limit for your Contentful Plan (Requests per second). Default: 4 */,
  insecure: /* If true, uses same-site HTTPS cookies to create a session. Default: false */
}

export async function getStaticProps() {
  try {
    const entry = await getEntry('EXAMPLE_ID', contentfulOptions);

    return {
      props: {
        entry
      }
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error)

    return {
      notFound: true
    }
  }
}

Fetching Many Entries

To fetch many entries, you can use getEntries:

import getEntries from 'next-tinacms-contentful'

const contentfulOptions = {
  spaceId: /* Contentful Space ID */,
  defaultEnvironmentId: /* Contentful environment ID to use by default. Default: master */,
  accessTokens: {
    delivery: /* Contentful delivery access token for the space */,
    preview: /* Contentful preview access token for the space */,
  }
  clientId: /* OAuth App Client ID */,
  redirectUrl: /* OAuth App Callback URL */,
  rateLimit: /* API Rate Limit for your Contentful Plan (Requests per second). Default: 4 */,
  insecure: /* If true, uses same-site HTTPS cookies to create a session. Default: false */
}

export async function getStaticProps() {
  try {
    const entry = await getEntries({ content_type: "EXAMPLE_CONTENT_TYPE_ID" }, contentfulOptions);

    return {
      props: {
        entry
      }
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error)

    return {
      notFound: true
    }
  }
}

Edit Mode

Server-side Sessions with Next.js Preview Mode

You can enable an "edit mode" for your site using server-side sessions with Next.js Preview mode, which uses HTTP only cookies to allow server-side logic to be run in front of requests, providing a user specific payload of data on context.previewData in getStaticProps, getServerSideProps, and in API routes, as well as allowing getStaticProps to work like getServerSideProps when users log in to edit pages to allow editing-specific business logic.

First, in pages/api add a new API route called editing.js with the following contents:

import { editModeHandler } from 'next-tinacms-contentful'

export const editingHandler = editModeHandler(60)

editModeHandler creates a serverless function that handles creating an "editing session" by enabling Next.js preview mode for the current user if it is not enabled, and adding metadata to Next.js' preview data to allow changing how the page behaves for editing.

Values

Key	Type	Description
context.previewData.tina_enabled	boolean	True if logged in, false if not
context.previewData.contentful_bearer_token	string | null	If defined, is the bearer token for the current logged in user

---

Then, you need to update the CMS to enable edit mode when the user finishes logging in. We do this by adding some configuration to the ContentfulProvider, which is usually found in pages/_app.js:

import { toggleEditing } from 'next-tinacms-contentful'

export function MyApp({ pageProps, Component }) {
  const cms = useMemo(() => {
    ...
  }, [])

  return (
    <TinaProvider cms={cms}>
      <ContentfulProvider 
        onLogin={() => toggleEditing(true)}
        onLogout={) => toggleEditing(false)}
      >
        <Component {...pageProps} />
      </ContentfulProvider>
    </TinaProvider>
  )
}

toggleEditing makes a HTTP POST request to the api/editing route, enabling or disabling the cms based on the boolean value passed in, and logs any errors to the user's console.

---

Finally in any of your pages, you can use getStaticProps or getServerSideProps to check if edit mode is enabled:

export function getStaticProps(context) {
  const entry = getEntry('EXAMPLE_ID', { 
    ...contentfulOptions,
    mode: context.previewData.tina_enabled ? "preview" : "delivery"
  })

  return {
    props: {
      entry
    }
  }
}

APIs

The library has the following core APIs:

• ContentfulClient: an API client for communicating with Contentful that integrates directly with the CMS.
• ContentfulMediaStore: a media store that uses a ContentfulClient to manage media for a single space.
• Provider: a React provider for official plugins and authorization.
• Hooks: a series of React Hooks for interacting with Contentful in your React app and CMS Plugins.
• Server-side Methods: utility methods for interacting with Contentful on the server.

There are other public APIs as well. To learn more, read the full Next.js API documentation or read the full JavaScript API documentation.

Server-side Methods

• getEntry: fetch a published delivery, draft preview, or editable management entry.
• getEntries: fetch multiple published delivery, draft preview, or editable management entries.
• getAsset: fetch a published delivery, or draft preview asset.
• getAssets: fetch multiple published delivery, or draft preview assets.
• proxy: [EXPERIMENTAL] proxies requests to Contentful in server side logic, attaching bearer tokens from edit mode on the way.
• toggleEditing: sends a fetch request to enable edit mode.
• editModeHandler: a serverless request handler for toggling edit mode in a Next.js API function.