Overview

The Contentful Ecommerce Starter Template is a pre-designed template powered by Next.js and Contentful. It provides optimized and adjustable pages, components, and data management for building ecommerce websites and apps.

Features

• Composable content: The template allows for powerful and flexible content modeling, making it easy to customize and adjust the structure of the content.
• Localization ready: The template supports multiple languages and is ready for localization.
• SEO ready: It is optimized for search engine optimization, ensuring that your ecommerce site will perform well in search engine rankings.
• Server-side rendering with Next.js: The template utilizes Next.js, a React framework, to enable server-side rendering for faster page loading and improved user experience.
• Generation of GraphQL typed code: The template automatically generates GraphQL schema and types that are synchronized with the content types, providing a seamless integration between your content and code.
• Enhanced Developer Experience with TypeScript: TypeScript is supported, offering improved type safety and better developer tooling.

Installation

To install the Contentful Ecommerce Starter Template, follow these steps:

1. Create a new account on Contentful using the following link: Contentful Sign-up.
2. After creating your account, use this link to start the auto installation of the template: Auto Installation.
3. Once the template is installed, you will need to set up the necessary environment variables. Rename the .env.example file to .env and add your space ID, Contentful Delivery API token, and Contentful Preview API token.
4. Install the necessary dependencies by running the command npm install.

Summary

The Contentful Ecommerce Starter Template is a powerful and flexible solution for building ecommerce websites and apps. It provides composable content modeling, localization support, and SEO optimization. With its integration of Next.js and automatic generation of GraphQL code, it offers an enhanced developer experience. By following the installation guide, you can get started quickly with building your own ecommerce platform using Contentful.