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MAY 06

Integrate Commento.io Comments with Gatsby
Commento is a lightweight, privacy-first comments system (think Disqus but 15KB in size), and it's the one powering comments on this blog. This guide will help you use it on your Gatsby site.
Minutes to read Laravel 8 Helper
Using the Str::macro function you can add additional helpers to the Laravel Str class, and we're going to add a reading time helper for your articles.

Pagination with Strapi and Gatsby
If you are using a Strapi backend for your Gatsby site you might notice a lot of the pagination guides are not well suited for you. But fear not, I got you!

MAY 05

Getting random articles in Gatsby
There is no real way in GraphQL to select a random number of articles. You can, however, achieve a somewhat similar affect with pure JavaScript if you have all the content loaded.
Simple plain JavaScript time to read function
Time to read on blog posts is a trending feature and I often see people using heavy, bloated JS to display that. It's actually quite simple to add a quick read time counter to content.
Gatsby MailChimp email list signup
Integrating with Mailchimp to allow your readers to sign up to a newsletter is easy with Gatsby. This guide will provide you with a component to use anywhere on your site to signup new subscribers.

MAY 04

MAY 03

Setting up Security Headers with Vercel
Vercel provides an easy way to confgure your Security Headers for browsers. This is great with any site deployed via Vercel really, but especially with website frontends.

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