agility / next-14-caching

Agility CMS & Next.js Starter

This is sample Next.js starter site that uses Agility CMS and aims to be a foundation for building fully static sites using Next.js and Agility CMS.

Live Website Demo

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📢 UPDATED FOR NEXT.JS 14 📢

• We have updated this starter for Next.js 14. It is using a pre-release version of the @agility/nextjs npm package specialized for app router amd caching.

About This Starter

• Uses our @agility/nextjs package to make getting started with Agility CMS and Next.js easy
• Support for Next.js 14 and app or pages router
• Support for fetch caching
• Supports routing from Agility sitemaps
• Supports Preview Mode

Tailwind CSS

This starter 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

This starter is written in TypeScript, with ESLint.

Getting Started

To start using the Agility CMS & Next.js Starter, sign up for a FREE account and create a new Instance using the Blog Template.

1. Clone this repository
2. Run npm install or yarn install
3. Rename the .env.local.example file to .env.local
4. Retrieve your GUID, API Keys (Preview/Fetch), and Security Key from Agility CMS 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

This will launch the site in development mode, using your preview API key to pull in the latest content from Agility.

npm

1. npm install
2. npm run dev

Production Mode

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

yarn

1. yarn build
2. yarn start

npm

1. npm run build
2. npm run start

Accessing Content

You can use the Agility Content Fetch SDK normally - either REST or GraphQL within server components.

Deploying Your Site

The easiest way to deploy a Next.js website to production is to use Vercel from the creators of Next.js, or Netlify. Vercel and Netlify are all-in-one platforms - perfect for Next.js.

Resources

Agility CMS

• Official site
• Documentation

Next.js

• Official site
• Documentation

Vercel

• Official site

Netlify

• Official site

Tailwind CSS

• Official site
• Documentation

Community

• Official Slack

• Blog

• GitHub

• LinkedIn

• X

• Facebook

Feedback and Questions

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