🗼 Building this blog with Notion, NextJS, and Gitpod
March 10, 2022 at 12:00 AM🍿
Credits and Callouts
Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants here:
- Samuel Kraft’s blog on “Building a blog with Notions Public API” finally got me to scratch the itch of converting a massive amount of content I have stored in notion into a public / shared format.
- Maximous Black’s comment on that blog source got me thinking a little more correctly about processing the blog post as data before rendering it (🤯 that they happened to be working on this all at the same time)
- notion-x used the uncomments system which let me to giscus
- gitpod’s unbelievably fast prototyping ability
- Fonts: Atkinson Hyperlegible
starting with https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nextjs
- open in gitpod
- add a “hello world”
git remote adda fork (new github repo https://github.com/sgregson/sgregson.dev) and push to it- you now have a functional gitpod-enabled nextjs repo!
enable access to the notion API! following along this blog, we’ll need to:
- set up notion API access
- create a notion database (…)
- commit lib access to blog and a blog landing page (at some point this may fail the localhost preview)
- add a command to
.gitpod.ymlto populate the.env.localfile during dev (based on this guide) - open a PR, and re-start a gitpod workspace from the above ^^
- implement basic “load blocks” page
build a more robust parser / loading mechanism
- this was part of https://github.com/samuelkraft/notion-blog-nextjs/issues/17
... discover that you need to fill in a great many components.