From the course: Build a Lightweight Full-Stack Headless CMS Using Next.js, Contentful, and GraphQL
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Set up your free tier Contentful account - GraphQL Tutorial
From the course: Build a Lightweight Full-Stack Headless CMS Using Next.js, Contentful, and GraphQL
Set up your free tier Contentful account
- [Instructor] Let's go ahead and set up your free Contentful account. Once you sign up, you can use GitHub, Google, your preferred method of signing up. I used GitHub, so I'm going to go ahead and log in. When you create your Contentful account, it's going to be blank. I have some content in here already, but yours is going to be blank. You can name your space anything that you'd like. You can name your organization anything you'd like. The most important thing here that we're going to be using is here under Settings, you're going to want to know your API keys. In order to create an API key, you'll go here, you can name it whatever you'd like. Let's say test 2. I'll say that. You can add here, and you're going to get your Space ID, which you will need later, as well as these access tokens, which will be important later on when we set up our code. From here, go ahead and peruse, click around, see what you are curious about, maybe try creating some content. So, as long as you have your…