At least for textual content. At work we have a small node based microservice that delivers data from Contentful in exactly markdown format. It's all working well but we started having cases where part of the text is in Contentful and the other part is in that microservice. For example when we have a button with a catchy design. Markdown is so ubiquitous in the Jamstack that many people confuse the M in the JAM acronym to mean Markdown rather than markup. But how did this happen and why does Markdown play such a big role.

I’m trying out Contentful for a work project.

In the Markdown editor, I can insert an arbitrary absolute link using the chain link icon. I can alternatively use the “Insert media” button, but this seems intended for inserting images only (despite the “Insert existing assets” dialog showing non-image assets).

My question: how should I train my non-technical users to insert a link to a PDF that Contentful hosts?

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It seems error-prone to expect non-technical users to use “Insert media” to find the URL of a hosted PDF, then munge the inserted Markdown into a standard Markdown link.

(I was expecting a UX similar to Wordpress: clicking the chain link icon would let me add an arbitrary URL or search for existing assets.)

Thanks!

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Contentful provides you with a content infrastructure that lets you build without any limitations, code in any language and use your favorite tools and frameworks to build a better digital product.

Features

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References

Contentful Markdown Renderer

• The Space usage page accessible when logged in the Contenful Web App
• The Usage page from the Organization settings

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Prismic.io allows you to manage and push content painlessly to your web apps and native apps by providing a modern authoring experience and a highly flexible API.

Features

• A Visual Custom Type Builder that supports drag and drop rich text fields, geopoints, images, color fields, relational fields and more.

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Contentful Markdown React

Free usage limits

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References

Sanity.io: Customizable Content Editor and a Feature Rich CLI

With Sanity, your content is treated as structured data and is made available through a simple and powerful API. You can edit it collaboratively and freely decide later how and where it will be distributed and used.

Features

• Hosted Backend: A secure, optimized and fully managed data store:

  • The data can be accessed either by using one of the client libraries or directly via HTTP.
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  • To use Content Studio, it must first be built using the command line before launching it locally. It can then be deployed to a service hosted by Sanity.
  • To edit your content, a Rich Text Editor is provided based on the Portable Text specification.
  • Validation rules can be defined on your document types and fields.

• Assets can be stored, transformed and deleted either via an UI, or using an API. Images can optionally be resized, cropped and processed by the image pipeline.

• A Command Line Interface that makes it easy to create new projects and set up, import and tear down datasets.

• To jump start development, Sanity provides front-end project samples for Vue.js, React/Next.js and more. Client libraries are also available for JavaScript and PHP.

Free usage limits

Contentful Markdown

• 3 Users
• 2 Datasets
• 500k API CDN Requests per month
• 100k API Requests per month
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• 10k Documents

References