Agility Documentation Site

This is the source code for the Agility Documentation site.

Demo

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About This Site

• Uses our @agility/next package to make getting started with Agility and Next.js easy
• Uses the getStaticProps function from Next.js to allow for full SSG (Static Site Generation)
• Supports next/image for image optimization
• Supports full Page Management
• Supports Preview Mode
• Uses revalidate tag with Vercel to enable ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration) builds
• Provides a functional structure that dynamically routes each page based on the request, loads a Page Templates dynamically, and also dynamically loads and renders appropriate Agility CMS Page Modules (as React components)

Tailwind CSS

Uses Tailwind CSS, a simple and lightweight utility-first CSS framework packed with classes that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup.

It also comes equipped with Autoprefixer, a plugin which use the data based on current browser popularity and property support to apply CSS prefixes for you.

TypeScript

Supports TypeScript. Not currently being used, but simply rename your files with a .ts extension to start taking advantage of Typescript concepts such as types and interfaces to help describe your data.

Getting Started

To start development on this site:

1. Clone this repository
2. Run yarn install
3. Rename the .env.local.template file to .env.local
4. Retrieve your GUID, API Keys (Preview/Fetch), and Security Key from Agility by going to Settings > API Keys.

How to Retrieve your GUID and API Keys from Agility

Running the Site Locally

Development Mode

When running your site in development mode, you will see the latest content in real-time from the CMS.

yarn

1. yarn install
2. yarn dev

Production Mode

When running your site in production mode, you will see the published from the CMS.

yarn

1. yarn build
2. yarn start

Accessing Content

Content get's passed to your Agility Page Modules as props, but you can also use the built in API to access. The API uses the REST API. s

Notes

How to Register Page Modules

1. To create a new Page Module, create a new React component within the /components/agility-pageModules directory.
2. All of the Page Modules that are being used within the site need to be imported into the index file within the /components/agility-pageModules directory and added to the allModules array:

import RichTextArea from "./RichTextArea";
import FeaturedPost from "./FeaturedPost";
import PostsListing from "./PostsListing";
import PostDetails from "./PostDetails";
import Heading from "./Heading";
import TextBlockWithImage from "./TextBlockWithImage";

const allModules = [
  { name: "TextBlockWithImage", module: TextBlockWithImage },
  { name: "Heading", module: Heading },
  { name: "FeaturedPost", module: FeaturedPost },
  { name: "PostsListing", module: PostsListing },
  { name: "PostDetails", module: PostDetails },
  { name: "RichTextArea", module: RichTextArea },
];

How to Register Page Templates

1. To create a new Page Template, create a new React component within the /components/agility-pageTemplates directory.
2. All of the Page Template that are being used within the site need to be imported into the index file within the /components/agility-pageTemplates directory and added to the allTemplates array:

import MainTemplate from "./MainTemplate";

const allTemplates = [
  { name: "MainTemplate", template: MainTemplate }
];

How to Properly Link to an Internal Page

To link to internal pages, use the next/link component.

import Link from 'next/link';

<Link href="/posts">
  <a>{item.fields.title}</a>
</Link>

How to Preview Content

Since this is a static site, how can editors preview content in real-time as they are making edits within Agility CMS? Vercel supports Previews out of the box! Simply paste the address of your site deployed on Vercel into your Agility Sitemap Configuration (Settings > Sitemaps), and use it as your Preview Deployment.

Resources

Agility CMS

• Official site
• Documentation

Next.js

• Official site
• Documentation

Vercel

• Official site

Tailwind CSS

• Official site
• Documentation

Community

• Official Slack
• Blog
• GitHub
• Forums
• Facebook
• Twitter

Feedback and Questions

If you have feedback or questions about this starter, please use the Github Issues on this repo, join our Community Slack Channel or create a post on the Agility Developer Community.