Kentico Developer Flash #6 (2020-02-06)

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👋Hi Kentico GitHub community!

It's been some time since the last update. Christmas is long gone, we've all got used to the new product name - Kentico Kontent, but there is some exciting news we'd like to share with you. Read on!

JAMStack Support

GatsbyJS

GatsbyJS ecosystem received several great community additions lately including taxonomy support by @mattnield and a transformer plugin for assets by @rshackleton.
The source plugin has also been updated with the new items-feed endpoint support (more on that below).
Make sure to use the version 4.3.0 to enjoy all the new goodness.

We are also be adding new types of webhooks to Kontent in order to support deeper integrations with static site generators (such as Gatsby Preview).

Jekyll integration

Thanks to @radoslavk, Kontent has now support for yet another static site generator. This time, it’s a Jekyll plugin, along with a sample site, and some cool improvements in the Ruby SDK. Radoslav did all this as part of his diploma thesis.

Rich Text component for Vue.js

The package is actually a Vue.js extension to our Kontent Delivery JS SDK. It replaces the resolveHtml method provided by the Kontent Delivery JS SDK to display value of rich text elements.

Integrations

Google Spreadsheets Import Add-On

@kentico-ericd created an import plugin that allows you to import content items from Google Spreadsheets (and transitively also from Excel ones). This is a low-effort, low-cost option if you don't want to create own migration tool but still want to avoid manual copy-pasting.

commercetools Product Selector

Are you looking for a good way to integrate an eCommerce platform with Kontent? Give a try to commercetools. @ChristopherJennings made it easier by creating a plugin for product selection.

Looking for other options? Read Unlock the Power of E-commerce in a Headless World by @makma.

Automatic Keyword Extractor

This custom element for Kentico Kontent gives editors a way to automatically generate keywords for an item based on the content in it. You can choose one of the two algorithms:

• Pure JavaScript implementation of the RAKE (rapid automatic keyword extraction) algorithm
• Microsoft Azure Text Analytics API (requires access key)

It was created as a part of an internal Kentico hackathon. We'll publish more results of the hackathon soon. Stay tuned! :)

Kontent API Changes

Did you know that you can now subscribe to API changes via RSS? 🎉 I strongly recommend it not to miss any important update.

The latest API change that took effect on February 1, 2020 is:

• The List content items endpoint returns max. 2,000 items (including linked items).
• A rate limit is applied to uncached requests to the Delivery API, resulting in a 429 Too Many Requests error when the limit of 100 requests per second is reached. This doesn't affect requests that hit our CDN cache.

The good news is that our JS & .NET SDKs already support the new items-feed endpoint, as well as the Gatsby source plugin does. More SDKs will come in the future.

Sit Back & Relax 🎥🎧

Watch us live on Twitch every Wednesday. @OnyxPrime and @ondrabus explore the JAMStack world (and previously Blazor) bit by bit and learn new things every week. Beware: the show’s very authentic and you’ll see developers fail, debug, and generally suffer 😁. If you missed the previous shows, check them out on YouTube:

• Adding Content Management using Kentico Kontent by @RyanOverton
• Finish Content Manangement Integration using Kentico Kontent by @RyanOverton
• Exploring the Jamstack with Gatsby and React by @RyanOverton
• Exploring the Jamstack with Gridsome and Vue.js by @RyanOverton

Also, make sure you don't miss @mcbeev's latest Kentico Rocks podcast where he interviews @diger74 on how he became a member of the Kentico community. They also talk about Kentico 2020, Kentico MVC, etc.

Featured Community Content

Art Piece

Check out this infinite Kentico shader created by @mrange:

Pull Request

@LeonKukker - added related articles showcase to demostrate loading of linked items in Aplollo boilerplate! Thanks!

All Things Kentico

Kentico's MVPs (@seangwright, @rshackleton, and @ileshmistry) are composing a list of all developer resources related to @Kentico. You can check it out here and contribute to it!

That's it for today

Phew, it was a lot! Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments!
Until next time 👋 😊