Kentico Developer Flash #8 (2020-05-22)

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👋Hi Kentico GitHub community!

Today it is exactly a month since the previous Developer Flash #7 was published! A lot of things have been done since that, so let's get to it!

Conferences

Jamstackconf

The hottest conference for all Jamstack fans hosted by Netlify. We are proud sponsors of the event and we have prepared a special offer for all attendees. Come meet us at our virtual booth to chat about your projects.

Live Coders conference

Do you remember the conference that took down Twitch? That was the first edition of Live Coders conference. On June 20th there will be another one and we are happy that we can sponsor this popular event. Our developer evangelist Ryan will also attend and talk about deploying Gatsby site to GitHub pages, don't miss him.

Gatsby

The brand new version 6 is released!

^ The link above should list all the new features.

If you are eager to try it, feel free to do so right now! - It's SUPERFAST!

After checking out the new Readme, you could notice that the repository now a monorepo containing a new version of Gatsby Source Plugin AND also one more package - @kentico/gatsby-kontent-components including RichTextElement to help you with rich-text element resolution. There is also a development site used for showcasing packages capabilities as well as for development.

If you have already used one of the previous versions of Gatsby source plugin, you might find the Upgrade Guide useful!

Sourcebit

Sourcebit is a tool that connects multiple data sources, for example, data in a headless CMS like Kontent and transforms them into various formats suitable for multiple static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Or Next.js.

This command-line wizard shortens the time required by devs to configure their statically generated site powered by a headless CMS.

Kontent source plugin is now officially included as a community-based source plugin!

Your feedback is welcomed!

Community Highlights 📰📽️💻

• @Corjen from @eversed-digital released Kontent interface generator
• @rshackleton described Solving content preview with Next.js Preview Mode

Did you miss the Evangelist ??? 🐨

Don't worry, we got you covered:

• CarMessenger project: .NET core + NoSQL database Couchbase by @ondrabus
• CarMessenger app ondrabus by @ondrabus
• My Twilio Hackathon Successful Failure by @OnyxPrime
• Developer Bingo by @ondrabus
• Overcoming presentation anxiety with a 3D printer? by @ondrabus
• Streaming Tech in 2020 | From my budget streaming setup to today by @OnyxPrime
• Add robots.txt to your Gatsby site by @ondrabus
• How to generate sitemap.xml on a Gatsby site? by @ondrabus
• JavaScript Array of Objects Tutorial – How to Create, Update, and Loop Through Objects Using JS Array Methods by @ondrabus
• How to Decide Between React and Vue When Building a Static Site by @ondrabus

Zapier

Integration with @zapier is now out!
Thanks to @kentico-ericd that took another topic from the Community content backlog!

He created Zapier CLI and submitted is as a Zapier app.

Once he did that, he also created a blog post describing, how to use it. If you are more to see it in action - check out the video Increase Productivity with Workflow Automation by @OnyxPrime.

The blog post was too great that it is also re-used as one of our integration tutorials.

Check out the integrations page to see the Kontent possibilities.

New shader

Quote by @OnyxPrime (twitch)

Hey all - one of my Twitch viewers loves playing with shaders and sent me his latest creation during my last Twitch stream.

That's it for today

Let us know in the discussion how you like the Flash. We'd love to hear from you! Would you prefer any other place for this news?