E1 | A Conversation with Contentful’s Developer Evangelist | Amelia Winger-Bearskin

In this episode, I speak with Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Contentful's Developer Evangelist, all about what developers and creators need to know to create web experiences and apps with Contentful.  We touch upon many topics including the Contentful's API, how to create Content Models, what resources are available online to help you along your journey and much more.  You can contact our guest, Amelia, at [email protected] or on the Contentful Slack @ameliawb. The following questions were asked: 1) Tell us about your background. 2) What brought you to Contentful? 3) Give us an overview of Contentful, from a Developer's perspective. 4) Is designing a content model in Contentful almost like designing a database? 5) How do you model non-visible content in Contentful? 6) How important is it to have a developer and/or application architect involved in the creation of a content model? 7) Tell us about the 4 APIs Contentful offers including the CMA, CDA, CPA and Image API? 8) Tell us about the GraphQL API in Contentful. 9) Are mutations supported in the GraphQL API? 10) Any plans of having the GraphQL API directly tied into Contentful instead of it being a layer on top of the REST APIs? 11) What's the difference between using the API directly and using the SDKs you guys offer? 12) How many SDKs do you guys offer and what languages do you currently support? 13) You guys recommend 3 types of frameworks to develop the front end.  Can you tell us more about those? 14) What about creating a preview of the site for testing? Can you expand on that? 15) Tell us about Environments in Contentful and what those are and how they can be used? 16) You guys just released the App Framework.  Can you tell us about it, how it works and how developers can use it to create apps for the Contentful web app. 17) What is Forma36?