Personal Website Powered By Contentful
Personal Website
Overview
This project is a robust, dynamic web application specifically designed to demonstrate skills and projects proficiently. It is developed using Gatsby, a contemporary static site generator synergistically integrated with Contentful CMS, ensuring efficient and seamless content management workflows.
Key Technologies
Gatsby: A static site generator that builds fast and modern web applications, providing a smooth user experience.
Contentful CMS: A headless CMS known for its efficient content management capabilities, ensuring seamless handling of the project's content needs.
GraphQL: A powerful tool for querying and managing data, providing the project with high flexibility and adaptability.
TypeScript: Type-safe preprocessor for writing locally scoped classes, variables, and themes, generating static CSS files at build time.
Features
Responsive Design
Predefined Breakpoints: Designed for small, medium, and large screens.
Modular CSS-in-JS Styling System
Style Variants: Enables creation of variations (e.g., button types, flex behaviors) using style variants.
Theme Integration: Centralized theme file (theme.css) for consistent spacing, colors, and typography.
Scalability: Easy addition of new variants and utilities without disrupting existing styles.
Vanilla Extract: Utilized for writing type-safe CSS with excellent developer ergonomics (
Abstract Interfaces: GraphQL Schema Customization
Definition of Interfaces: Interfaces define a standard contract for GraphQL types, ensuring consistency, reusability, and flexibility.
Example: The HomepageBlock interface specifies the required fields, such as ID and blocktype.
Implementation by Types: Concrete types (e.g., ContentfulHomepageHero, ContentfulHomepageFeature) implement these interfaces to align with the defined structure.
Abstract Querying: Enables querying at the abstract level, simplifying the process.
Interfaces such as HomepageBlock, HomepageHero, and HomepageImage streamline schema organization for Contentful data representation.
Dynamic Pages with Advanced SEO Metadata: Dynamic pages have advanced SEO features, ensuring maximum visibility and reach.
Canonical URLs: You can prevent duplicate content issues by specifying primary URLs.
Dynamically constructed using the page slug and site’s base URL from site metadata.
Open Graph and Twitter Metadata:
Open Graph tags enhance social media link previews.
Twitter card tags optimize previews for Twitter.
Implemented in the SEOHead component with fallbacks for missing fields.
Default Metadata Fallbacks:
Sourced from gatsby-config.js for global metadata defaults.
Highlights
Dynamic Web Application: Built with Gatsby and Contentful CMS.
Responsive and Scalable Design: Breakpoints, style variants, and scalable CSS-in-JS.
GraphQL Schema Customization: Abstract interfaces for consistent and flexible CMS data querying.
Advanced SEO Features: Canonical URLs, Open Graph, Twitter Metadata, and default fallbacks.