Railway Blog

This repository contains the source code for the Railway blog. We use a NextJS app with Notion as our CMS.

✨ Features

NextJS
TypeScript
TailwindCSS
Notion

💁‍♀️ How to use

We also have a detailed guide on our blog to help users deploy a similar blog using Railway.

Step 1: Create a notion DB

You can find instructions on how to set up the Notion Database, TLDR you need the following fields, in an Inline Database on a page, it needs to be inline, else it won't work

Page (Title) - The page containing a post
Slug (Text) - The URL of a post
Published (Checkbox) - Only published blog posts show up on the website
Date (Date) - The date the post was published
Authors (Person) - A list of users that wrote the post
Image (Text) - The URL of the meta image for a post

Step 2: Create a Notion Integration

This will be done on Notion's Manage Integration page, copy the token, this will be used as NOTION_API_TOKEN

Step 3: Get a hold of your Database ID

You can get this from the URL of the page, whose structure is https://www.notion.so/<user>/<database_Id>?v=.... , the database_Id will be used as POSTS_TABLE_ID

That is it, Just make sure the properties are not empty

📝 Notes

This blog is heavily based on this example by JJ Kasper.

medryan / NextJS-Backend