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How to integrate Netlify CMS with Gridsome?

Yashu Mittal on November 21, 2018

Gridsome is awesome 🤘🏻 and the possibility to integrate with other tools are endless... Let's get down the road and learn how to integrate Netlif...

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spicysanta • Feb 21 '19

Awesome guide, although when you try to deploy it to netlify using your git repository, netlify returns a

"failed during stage 'building site': Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1".
Any help?

Yashu Mittal • Feb 22 '19

Have tested it locally on your machine?

Trond Ulseth • May 16 '19

Hi,

I have a fork of the starter kit, and was able to get it running at: upbeat-torvalds-ac1965.netlify.com

However going to upbeat-torvalds-ac1965.netlify.com... hoping to see the NetlifyCMS login I only get a "GitHub Auth Demo" page

Any advice on how to move on?

Trond Ulseth • May 16 '19

I solved it. Had to replace the content of static/admin/index.html with this (from netlifycms.org/docs/add-to-your-si...

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
  <title>Content Manager</title>
</head>
<body>
  <!-- Include the script that builds the page and powers Netlify CMS -->
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/netlify-cms@^2.0.0/dist/netlify-cms.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Yashu Mittal • May 16 '19

That's great. Glad, it worked out. 😃

Yashu Mittal • May 16 '19

Could you share the screenshot of the problem you are facing?

Andrew Gray • Mar 8 '19 • Edited

Thank you for the article! I'm new to static site generators and the Jamstack, so these articles are very helpful as I do my research. My goal is to find an alternative to traditional CMS's using static site generators and headless CMS's.

Is it possible to run this in the cloud and automatically build and deploy when content changes in Netlify CMS? So far in my research I have only seen examples of running Gridsome locally and manually running the build process. If I could run it in the cloud and automatically build on content changes that would be closer to what I'm looking for. Thanks!

Yashu Mittal • Mar 13 '19

Really appreciate those kind words.

I am also very obsessed with static site generator that I literally started a podcast for it, it's called Static Site

There are many static site generator out there and as I am aware of NetlifyCMS does work with bunch of them.

Yeah, sure you can deploy your site anywhere you want, checkout the screenshot below.

As you can see Gridsome just output static files like: HTML, CSS, JS and then you can host those static files anywhere you want.

With Netlify you get few additional feature where you don't have to deploy manually, if you want to host your site on cloud you have add pass it thought some CI for auto-deployment.

Hope, this clears your question. :)

Sebastian Ulbel • Dec 6 '18

Hi. Nice work. But how can I access the netlifyCMS backend? Normally its available via /admin - but this doesnt work for me. Can you provide more details?
Thanks.

Yashu Mittal • Dec 7 '18 • Edited

Glad you liked it.

You can access the netlify cms backend by http://localhost:8080/admin, make sure that the admin directory is at the root and inside static directory.

Let me know if you found any other difficulty, while setting up NetlifyCMS integration with Gridsome.