Engineering December 15,2020 Integration Fields: enrich your products with Prismic When you build anything, the ideal situation is to be able to choose the tools, services, and technologies that are most suited to each individual requirement. In fact, it’s this concept that leads many website developers to go ‘headless’ with their CMS.
Announcement November 27,2020 #SliceContest: Winner, Winner, Pizza Dinner Last month we released an update to Slice Machine, adding a builder to it. To celebrate that, we organized #SliceContest, a contest where developers could share a slice library made with the new builder to enter. The deadline for the contest has passed and our latest product meetup was the right time to announce the two lucky winners! Here's the replay in case you missed the announcement:
Announcement November 04,2020 Slice Machine update: Slice Builder and a Slice Contest Since its launch back in May, we have been overwhelmed by the level of support and excitement that Slice Machine has received from the community. This support has not only helped us to get the project off the ground, but also helped us to identify areas where Slice Machine can be improved.
Announcement October 30,2020 #SliceContest: Share Your Slice Library ✨ #SliceContest: Slice Builder Release is over! Read the highlight and discover the winners here~
Concept October 05,2020 Webinar with Arkade: aligning content, commerce, and customer The expectations for eCommerce websites have quickly evolved and visitors now expect something more than a catalog that lists products. With online orders now becoming the default purchase method for many people, companies are having to figure out how they can tell their brand story and improve the visitor experience without complicating the buying process.
Concept September 25,2020 Webinar with Tim Benniks: from a monolithic CMS to microservices There's no denying it. Microservices are becoming increasingly popular. This switch has resulted in the boom in SaaS companies and, within web development, has driven the increasing number of CMS options and movements like Jamstack.
Writing Room September 17,2020 The Future of Slices At our live product meet-up in August, Sadek and Renaud spoke to our users about the future of Slices. Slices is one of our most popular features and a reason why many of our users opt for Prismic as their CMS and it is a feature that we are continuously looking to improve.
Writing Room September 11,2020 Changes to how we handle SVG's We have recently disabled the use of SVGs with the Imgix integration. The reasoning behind this is because of security vulnerabilities with SVGs, in that they can be injected with JS which could cause malicious behavior on your websites. Another reason for this decision is because the Imgix query parameters have no effect on SVGs. So from now on SVGs will be treated as files rather than images and because of this they will not be delivered from the the domain images.prismic, they will now come from our Amazon servers. The Team thought this change would not result in any breaking changes, but one case we didn’t foresee was people currently with SVGs and query params who update their documents and this is why we didn't communicate this earlier. This is our bad and we should have been more thorough in our testing.
Engineering July 17,2020 Gatsby-Prismic plugins: what’s going on? Gatsby is one of the most popular frameworks among Prismic users. Prismic's flexibility allows users to build the stack that they prefer without foregoing any of the benefits of any of the technologies involved. When paired with Gatsby, Prismic websites remain lightning-fast but also provides features and benefits that make managing a website and content much easier.
Announcement June 11,2020 Development environments: a sandbox where you can test, try, and iterate safely Few things are more important for your website development and maintenance than knowing that you can safely iterate and test new features without putting your live website at risk. But, fear no more, with Prismic’s new development environments feature you can easily clone your production environment and work on new iterations and designs in a separate and safe development environment.
Announcement May 27,2020 Announcing Slice Machine: a workflow for developing and deploying website sections Ever thought about using components for sections of your web pages? With SliceMachine, you can build page sections, define their model, edit properties, deploy them, and deliver a visual interface that allows even your most technically challenged colleagues to easily build pages without any further help from you.
Misc May 06,2020 Adapting to a new normal: what this pandemic has taught about our business Uh oh…you’ve clicked on a link and you’ve found yourself on another piece of self-aggrandizing and congratulatory content.
Engineering February 07,2020 Hjörtur Hilmarsson explains when to use Animations Hjörtur Hilmarsson is a creative Web Developer and CEO of 14islands, a Stockholm based web development studio that loves to build great user experiences. 14islands designs and builds elegant experiences using a human-centric approach and cutting edge technologies - their go-to stack currently is Gatsby + Prismic + Netlify.
Engineering January 20,2020 Emma Wedekind's journey to programming: from Java to React Emma is a Software Engineer based out of Karlsruhe, Germany, currently leading a Design System at LogMeIn. She was born and raised in Upstate New York. Emma graduated from Siena College in Albany with a B.S. in Computer Science and moved to Austin, Texas, for three years where she worked as an engineer at IBM on Quantum Computing.
Engineering January 03,2020 Javascript and CSS Animations In this video, Sadek and David Khourshid talk about David's path to becoming a CSS Animations expert. David also shared a few tips on how to make clean animations and why they still have a role to play in website UX.
Engineering December 10,2019 True or false: we now have a Boolean Fields feature In the face of overwhelming popular demand, we have finally given the people what they want and made it possible to use Boolean Fields in Prismic. OK...so this isn't the most exciting piece of news that we've ever told you about, but we know that a lot of people out there will be very happy to hear it.
Engineering November 15,2019 Finer grain control with Prismic webhooks The day that you have all been waiting for has finally arrived - we're giving you more control over your webhooks! Go on, go to your settings and spend the afternoon playing around with your configurations, there's no one here to stop you.
Announcement August 14,2019 Prismic Image Optimization with imgix We've partnered with Imgix to provide Prismic users with image optimization, next-gen image support, and an improved interface that will give them greater control when cropping and editing their images.
Concept June 13,2019 Required Fields Revisited It's always tempting to say 'yes' to a feature request - especially when you can understand the use cases and when it is popular among existing users - but it comes with the risk of losing sight of what you want your product to be in the long term.
Engineering June 07,2019 How Ueno chose their framework and why they went with Gatsby In our latest video with Birkir, he and Sadek discuss how Ueno chose their framework and why they went with Gatsby. Choosing Gatsby and staying React-based allows for a component-based approach that makes it easy for projects to be divided whilst still allowing developers to easily collaborate and work independently. Their preference for a component-based approach is one of the main reasons that they like using Prismic as a CMS.
Engineering June 06,2019 What it means to be a tech director at Ueno In the first video from our series with Birkir Gudjonsson, he and Sadek discuss what his role as Tech Director at Ueno New York actually entails and how Ueno structures and plans its work.
Concept May 15,2019 Prismic vs. Wordpress A lot of articles like this will start with the company trashing their competitors and proclaiming themselves to be the one true solution. That isn’t how we work.
Engineering May 12,2019 What is Serverless - Episode 5: Building a fast website In the final episode from our What is Severless series, Guillermo from Zeit explains how using Severless can help you to build a fast website. Integrate with any framework, mix static and dynamic, and deploy everything at once.
Engineering May 09,2019 3 Things I wish I'd known when starting with React React has became one of the most used frameworks in the Javascript community. For beginners, learning React can seem overwhelming as it involves trying to navigate a world of libraries, plugins, dev tools, new features. But don't stress. To help you get started, Kitze joined us in the Prismic studios to share his most useful tips for beginners.
Engineering May 06,2019 What is Serverless - Episode 4: Developer experience and Collaboration opportunities In this episode from the Serverless series, Guillermo and Sadek discuss the Serverless developer experience. Guillermo explains how using Severless can improve the developer experience in a number of ways - including through instant deployments, reduced cost, easy rollbacks, and better collaboration.
Engineering May 01,2019 What is Serverless - Episode 3: Deploying applications globally In Episode 3 from our Serverless series, Sadek and Guillermo discuss how Serverless allows you to deploy applications globally by having smart/application-aware CDNs.
Engineering April 30,2019 How Next.js and Gatsby work and how they're different New React frameworks are appearing constantly, so often in fact, that keeping up with all of the latest options takes a lot of work. Next.js and Gatsby are two of the most popular, particularly with Prismic users, so we invited We Bos to the studio to talk to Sadek about how each of them works, their ecosystems, and how they are different when it comes to rendering, data management, routing, and deployment.
Engineering April 24,2019 What is serverless - Episode 2: Scaling your application In Episode 2 from our Serverless series, Sadek, from Prismic, and Guillermo, from Zeit, discuss how Serverless allows you to scale your application both when you experience peaks of traffic and when you only have a few people coming to your app.
Engineering April 23,2019 What's new in React: Hooks and Suspense A lot of developers choose React as a framework for their web applications. Most will need a Headless CMS (like Prismic) to be able to edit and publish new content.
Engineering April 22,2019 How to choose a tech stack for your website - Episode 2: Exploring the frameworks landscape This is a transcript from the second episode in our series on how to choose your tech stack. In this episode, Sadek and Nouha discuss how to choose your framework and look into the advantages of some of the most popular and commonly used frameworks.
Engineering April 18,2019 What is Serverless - Episode 1: Introduction This is a transcript of a conversation between Guillermo Raugh, CEO of ZEIT, and Sadek, CEO of Prismic, about Serverless: what does it mean from a developer's point of view, how Serverless functions work, and how to manage the questions of state and startup time.
Engineering April 11,2019 The Previews Feature Now Works With Gatsby We know, we know, the internet loves Gatsby. The past 18 months have seen Gatsby become a developer favorite, with its market share increasing by over 7000% in the past 5 months alone.
Announcement April 08,2019 Introducing Our In-Website Edit Button We've all been there. You're looking over your website and realize that you need to update or correct some content - now you just need to find a way to edit the page.
Engineering April 05,2019 How to choose a tech stack for your website - Episode 1: Introduction Not sure what the best build for your website is? Don't worry, you're not alone. Navigating the world of frameworks, technologies, and languages out there is not easy - even for experts - and each new build has new requirements. How to choose your tech stack is a question that we get a lot, so Nouha and Sadek decided to sit down in the Prismic Studio and share tips and advice on how to make your decisions.
Engineering April 03,2019 Choosing Next.js, TypeScript, and StoryBook for your Tech Stack Here's a transcript of a video from our interview with Gary Meehan (front-end developer at Distilled SCH). In this video, Gary talks to Gabe from Prismic about how Distilled SCH manages their tech stack.
Announcement March 13,2019 Our Improved Translation and Localization Feature Sometimes we get to make big announcements that we think will revolutionize the CMS landscape and the way that you use our product…and other times we get to talk about small changes that will just make your life that little bit easier. This one is definitely the latter (but we do have big things planned for the near future, we promise).
Announcement March 01,2019 Announcing our Freelancer Program We are happy to announce that we have officially launched our Prismic Freelancer Program. This community will help freelance developers that use Prismic to match with clients looking to complete a project. It is a place where developers can share their portfolios, exchange ideas, and give feedback. Where companies can look for experienced freelancers with the skills that they need.
Engineering November 29,2018 How Gatsby and Next.js really work (and what it means for speed and SEO) This is a transcript of an (extremely technical but nonetheless interesting) conversation about Gatsby, Next.js, speed, SEO, caching, and other things between Sadek (the CEO of Prismic) and Gabe (a core engineer – at Prismic, too). Watch the video, or scan through the highlights below, or read the entire thing – or do none of these things. Do as you please.
Concept November 05,2018 Unpopular opinion: why required fields lead to terrible UX Validation mechanisms and required fields are a hotly debated topic in our team and throughout our community. These two features stand amongst the top requested features and yet they have never been implemented. (Which might seem especially strange given how relatively simple it is to build them.)
Writing Room October 30,2018 A new look for the Writing Room (I'm already writing this text is in the new version of the editor.)
Announcement September 27,2018 GraphQL API alpha release So many developers told us that they want a GraphQL API in Prismic! We had no choice but to make it the priority.
Engineering September 10,2018 How to get React SEO-friendly by using Next.js SEO has become one of the most crucial points on the Internet to get a good ranking on Google and offer visibility to your website. If you have ever wondered how to stick with React for your web application without the lack of SEO and poor latency on the first load, you should take a look at what is coming Next.
Engineering August 10,2018 3 reasons to use Vue.js in your next web project It's hard to choose a JavaScript framework – because there's too many of them, and because the differences are not immediately obvious. If you agree that productivity ("how fast can I get things done") and performance ("how fast will my website be") are the most important criteria, let me show why Vue.js is a very solid framework for building websites and single-page applications.
Writing Room June 27,2018 Shareable preview: Get a direct link to a page preview and send it to anyone After some beta testing (a big thank you goes to everyone who contributed to it), shareable previews are live.
Engineering June 26,2018 Server-side rendered blog with Next.js and Prismic Editor's note: This is a guest post by Gary Meehan, a front-end developer at Distilled SCH.
Writing Room June 05,2018 New feature: Set up new custom types faster by reusing existing content components A quick reminder for those who haven’t used slices yet: slices are reusable content components that can be inserted into any custom type. Slices are good for recurring content elements that appear across different pages of a website: for example, a “headline + image + text paragraph” section that can appear on different landing pages with different layouts. The point of slices is to enable creating new pages without writing new code – so that content managers can create new pages independently.
API February 22,2018 New PHP starter kit for Prismic new API v2 In mid-2017 we've reworked the API for fetching content and released the results under the name Content Query API v2. The new API has been simplified in terms of the content structure — in particular to rely less on development kits.
Writing Room February 15,2018 A clearer view for your Content Slices. Introducing the Grid View At Prismic, we have the chance to meet with marketing and editorial teams from companies like Deliveroo, Made or The Container Store every day. Thanks to these interactions, we are constantly learning how to build a better product that fits their needs, whether it is for a corporate website, an e-commerce platform marketing or for their campaigns.
Announcement October 19,2017 Now we know how to take over the CMS world! 🚀 😅 Last week, our product designer, Renaud, sent some questions to our users asking for their help in planning our backlog. The results were amazing! I personally didn't expect these levels of quantity, quality and details in the feedback.
Writing Room October 18,2017 A new redesign of the prismic.io editor. Better visibility and structure for your content. Hey everyone, today, we are releasing a big improvement to our content editor design. Last week, we sent an email asking our community about improvements that they wanted to see implemented in Prismic. One of the big items was a simpler design in our text editor.
Writing Room October 17,2017 Hot reload for your preview sessions ! Hey ! Today, we are happy to release a major improvement to our preview feature. Our goal at prismic.io has always been to free developers from CMS constraints and provide the best user experience to the editorial/marketing team.
Writing Room September 27,2017 Have your links open in a new tab (Target blank) Today we deployed a new improvement to link management. You can now add the target="_blank" attribute for your web links in your link field or in the rich text editor. This will have the links open in a new tab when a user clicks on them. To activate the target="_blank" attribute in your project you just have to follow this two simple steps.
Writing Room September 26,2017 Improvements for image constraints and editing We're happy to release some improvements in image editing and size definition.
Writing Room September 26,2017 Improvements for the color field As you might have heard, we deploy every day. This Summer, we chose to tackle a lot of small improvements that were discussed with our community.
API September 13,2017 Define a default value for your select fields Today, we have started deploying a new little feature that allows developers to define a default value for a select field.
Writing Room July 12,2017 The Slices Builder : Content components for everyone ! Today, we are thrilled to officially annonce the release of a long awaited feature: the new Content Slices Builder
Writing Room July 07,2017 Version panel : Have a clear view of your content scheduling and document versions Since the beginning, prismic.io has provided a powerful publication scheduling and management tool called releases.
Writing Room July 06,2017 A new Media Gallery, Settings and Dashboard We recently released a design refresh for several components of our writing room including the media gallery, the settings page and the dashboard.
Writing Room July 05,2017 Richer Slices for Campaigns and Landing Pages A long awaited feature has been deployed in your repositories.
Writing Room April 27,2017 A new RichText editor for better performance and multi-language support A new update is hitting beta today. We've completely rebuilt our RichText editor, this comes with some major improvements and changes in the design.
Writing Room April 12,2017 Multi-language is available for all new repositories A long awaited feature is now available, multi-language and localisation is hitting production! This will allow creating and publishing content in multiple languages.
Engineering March 31,2017 Webhooks, webhooks everywhere : support for SNI When you build a website or an app you may want to be informed whenever you update your content. This is good for sending notifications, trigger a publication in social media, invalidate your cache, etc.
Announcement March 08,2017 No more broken links: auto-publication of related documents! Defining relationships between custom types is a pretty handy way to managing links between your web pages. Let's say you define a product custom type which you can link to a certain category or collection.
Announcement February 28,2017 Reusable content components for your layouts? The new slices are here! A frequent need from a CMS is some mechanism to define reusable components in the style of Wordpress's Visual Composer. Reusable components allow you to visualy compose rich layouts like composable landing-pages, case studies, rich stories (medium like), etc.
Announcement October 12,2016 Sample Website, Responsive Images and Social Cards! A selection of free hands-on resources to help developers dig into the API-based (or headless) way of buiding websites. Don't hesitate to share!
Concept July 07,2015 Giving Websites a Life after Birth Companies and startups still fail at placing their website in the center of their communication and marketing. Despite their huge efforts to integrate unique up-to-date design and technology, their websites suffer from one fundamental problem: they are stagnant, right on the day of their release!
Concept November 13,2014 Preview content changes in your website Today, I am glad to ship a new prismic.io feature: prismic Preview Bar. It allows you to preview your Writing Room changes and it integrates seemlessly into your website in any technology or design. You can preview planned releases, saved or unsaved drafts without publishing them.
Writing Room October 14,2014 Experiments: compare content variations efficacy on a blog or page Ever wanted to know, for sure, whether short titles are more efficient than long ones? A data visualisation is more relevant than a funny kitten photo? Or whether you should use first, second or third person for a blog post or page? And while we're on it, do these vary with different types audiences and domains?
Announcement October 02,2014 New website & content experiment tools We started our journey with prismic.io to challenge the traditional content management approach. prismic.io is an entirely new way to bring websites or apps' content alive.
API July 03,2014 Geo-code your content: find documents around you! Customising content in relation to one's geographic position (geo-coded content) has become very important in the past few years. For example, when looking for stores on the "Les Bonnes Choses" pastry shop website, it is very handy to be suggested the nearest store depending on your location. This kind of feature is now possible through prismic.io's Content API thanks to a new document fragment named “GeoPoint”.
Engineering June 19,2014 Using Hack language & Prismic.io As you may already know, Facebook released last March, a new programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine named Hack. Hack is what Typescript is for Javascript: a superset of a primary language, PHP. What does it mean ? It means that PHP is Hack compliant and Hack brings some new features to PHP. This results in most of the existing PHP codebase remaining usable in Hack.
API June 17,2014 Improve your content discovery: "similar" predicate and "linked" documents One of today's known trends in media for engaging audience is content discovery. Whether you're publishing in a website or an application, improving your content discovery will have a boosting effect on user engagement.
Engineering May 28,2014 Introducing prismic.io webhooks: integration with publishing and changes events At prismic.io, one of our goals is to provide a developer friendly platform enabling you to make the best out of your content, be it in the way you present it, optimise it or how you choose to deliver it. This is why we provide a very advanced API design, with very nice querying and caching characteristics.
Announcement May 22,2014 Even faster API for faster websites: deliver API & media assets via a CDN From the early design days, we architectured prismic.io to provide extreme performance for websites and apps using our content API. Our API is designed to be elastically scalable. In addition, one of the key properties allowing us to achieve high performance is that all our API content calls can be cached forever. This is also true for the media assets linked by the prismic.io documents: they can be cached forever as well.
Engineering May 20,2014 baked.js: integrate content management into a static website generator using JavaScript In a previous article, Rudy explained how to build a website with Content Management using client-side JavaScript and prismic.io. He introduced a JavaScript micro-framework which separates content queries from the presentation templates.
Writing Room May 07,2014 Insider's view: how we managed months of content changes for our public beta release! The past few months have been very exciting for us, as we were secretely preparing our recent public beta release with a lot of changes and enhancements like the brand new redesign of the Writing Room, the new pricing, and all the cool new features.
Announcement April 24,2014 prismic.io: Free for Open Source and Open Content Last week we've revealed our Simple and Team Repository pricing plans, today we're revealing another plan: free Open Content plan.
Announcement April 15,2014 Big Announcements: Thousands of repositories, Public Beta, a new Writing Room and a simplified pricing With prismic.io we want to achieve a product that helps every developer integrate content into their websites and apps, and every content writer experiment with and optimize their content ideas. We'll help adopting cutting edge technologies and designs in these websites and apps while presenting optimal, carefully crafted and updated content.
Announcement April 14,2014 prismic.io: a summary of the past few months A few months back, we announced prismic.io, a new approach to content managment. We released a private beta of our Writing Room and Content Query API, along with a demo example — the Les Bonnes Choses pastery shop.
Engineering April 03,2014 A website with manageable content using a Bootstrap theme, client-side JavaScript and prismic.io For front-end developers out there who master the art of front-end technologies (including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS), manageable content used to impose some kind of a brick wall that stops the fun. It used to mean learning a back-end technology which is not trivial for some, and even not necessarily interesting for others.
Concept April 02,2014 Why did content writers lose trust in CMSs and how to gain it back Content writers' experience with Content Management Systems has mostly varied from crossing their fingers any time they edit or publish content, to avoiding and minimizing the use of the CMS at any price, replacing it with more trustworthy tools, like word processors and even plain paper!
Concept March 27,2014 Immutable documents and Restful API: cache forever, update instantaneously One of the challenges of creating a service for Content Management (Content Query API) is achieving and guaranteeing very low latency. Content is very central to an application or website. Basically you can't show the website if you have no content, and any latency in fetching content means a slow website.
Concept March 26,2014 Structuring Content leads to Powerful Content Query API One of the things that got me interested when joining the prismic.io team, is the possibilities behind the concept of clean separation between content management from one side and the query api from the other side. This is what we call Writing Room and Content Query API.
Writing Room March 20,2014 Structured Text: A cleaner way to deal with Rich Text in Manageable Content A major feature everyone expects when it comes to manageable content, is the ability to author rich text content. At prismic.io we use what we call structured text chunks as a cleaner way for doing just that.
Engineering March 19,2014 Turn a Bootstrap theme into a Manageable Content Website in no time I often hear a lot of developers regretting that they often have to make a choice between either being able to manage content, or using cool front-end tools designed to make their lives easier, such as Bootstrap. It does feel intriguing to me that this kind of constraint takes so long to be overcome, and that content is often a barrier to entry against the most relevant front-end tools.
Concept March 13,2014 Writing Room and Content Query API: a different approach to Content Management A quick exploration of the world of Content Management reveals obvious limitations in current classical solutions — the disdained Content Management System. These limitations certainly present a great opportunity to fix things up, and reshape what modern Content Management should look like.
Engineering March 04,2014 Start up your website with manageable content astutely using Rails and prismic.io A prismic.io content repository comes with a REST API from which your Rails app can query your content, and a writing-room where you can edit and manage your content.
Engineering October 23,2013 [ js ⬡⊶⬡ prismic.io ] 99% pure (or a touch beyond) approach to managing content in JavaScript
API October 10,2013 How prismic.io API scales Last week, we successfully launched prismic.io, introducing several new concepts into the cluttered Content Management world (and breaking a bunch of assumptions about how to manage content). In the last few days since then, we've received loads of positive feedback, we're glad lots of hackers have a good grasp of the concepts. We've also been receiving plenty of very interesting questions.
Concept October 03,2013 "Les Bonnes Choses", a complete example If you don't feel clear yet about how a website is made with prismic.io, we thought that the best way for you to get into it is to let you see for yourself, and experiment from that.
Announcement October 02,2013 Introducing prismic.io Content is everywhere. When you are creating a website, a web application, a game or a native mobile app - big or small, you have to deal with content at some point. Which inevitably has you asking questions: where do I store content? How can I modify texts? Fix typos, evolve and expand my work?