Leonard Tobias

My client needed a quick portfolio page, but the project was complicated by the need for content management. He wanted to independently change the text of the image on his site in order to save certain resources in the future. Since if the site was made only on pure Gatsby.js, the client would have to constantly hire a developer for small minor changes.

For the Front end side, I decided to use Gatsby.js as one of the most proven and fastest🚀 solutions on the market. But choosing the right headless cms was not an easy task. Popular solutions such as Strapi, Sanity, or Contentful look a bit bulky and inconvenient for such a small project.

Then I found Dato CMS which was a great plugin integrated into Gatsby.js. I could not even imagine how much it would make development easier for me. Since Gatsby.js is largely based on GraphQL, to get some data from Dato CMS, I needed a short useStaticQuery (Gatsby.js) function. Also, of all Headless CMS, it has the simplest and most pleasant interface, but most importantly, it has everything you need (models for repeating components, required data to be filled in, etc.).

After discussing and identifying all the main needs of the client, a Wireframe prototype was developed, then a design in Figma. Once the design was approved, the final development and testing process followed.