Content Modeling in Next.js

Learn how to handle different nestable and content type blocks, render rich text, and use story references to manage content globally.

Setup

Alternatively, in the existing space, create a new content type block article and an “Articles” folder with content. The article content type block should have the following fields:

• title: Text
• content: Rich text

Also, create an article-overview content type block and create it as the root story of the “Articles” folder. This block requires no fields.

Finally, create a featured-articles nestable block with the following field:

• articles: References

Add a new featured-articles block to the body field of the home story and select some articles to be featured.

Fetch and list all articles

Create a new components/ArticleOverview.jsx file to get all stories from this new content type.

import { getStoryblokApi } from '@/lib/storyblok';
import Link from 'next/link';

export default async function ArticleOverview() {
	const storyblokApi = getStoryblokApi();
	let articles = await storyblokApi.getAll('cdn/stories', {
		version: 'draft',
		starts_with: 'articles',
		content_type: 'article',
	});

	return (
		<div>
			<h1>Articles</h1>
			<ul>
				{articles.map((article) => (
					<li key={article.uuid}>
						<Link href={`/${article.full_slug}`}>{article.name}</Link>
					</li>
				))}
			</ul>
		</div>
	);
}

The starts_with parameter is being used to fetch stories from the “Articles” folder. The content_type parameter restricts the results to stories of the content type article, ensuring that the article_overview is excluded.

Now, the article overview page shows a list of links to all articles.

Create the article block

Add a new components/Article.jsx component to render the new article content type.

import { storyblokEditable, StoryblokRichText } from '@storyblok/react/rsc';

const Article = ({ blok }) => {
	return (
		<div className="article" {...storyblokEditable(blok)}>
			<h1>{blok.title}</h1>
			<p>
				<StoryblokRichText doc={blok.content} />
			</p>
		</div>
	);
};

export default Article;

To render rich text fields, the StoryblokRichText component provided by the @storyblok/react module is used.

When clicking on links present in the article overview page, an article page renders correctly.

Handle referenced stories

In the src/app/[...slug]/page.js data file, use the resolve_relations parameter to receive the complete story object for referenced stories.

import { StoryblokStory } from '@storyblok/react/rsc';
import { getStoryblokApi } from '@/lib/storyblok';

export default async function Page({ params }) {
	const { slug } = await params;
	const fullSlug = slug ? slug.join('/') : 'home';

	const storyblokApi = getStoryblokApi();
	let { data } = await storyblokApi.get(`cdn/stories/${fullSlug}`, {
		version: 'draft',
   resolve_relations: 'featured-articles.articles',
	});

	return (
		<div>
			<StoryblokStory story={data.story} />
		</div>
	);
}

Next, create a new src/components/FeaturedArticles.jsx component.

import { storyblokEditable } from '@storyblok/react';

export default function FeaturedArticles({ blok }) {
	return (
		<section {...storyblokEditable(blok)} className="featured-articles">
			<h2>Featured Articles</h2>
			<ul>
				{blok.articles.map((article) => (
					<li key={article.uuid}>
						<a href={`/${article.full_slug}`}>{article.name}</a>
					</li>
				))}
			</ul>
		</section>
	);
}

Now, this component will render links to the featured articles on the home page of the project.

Related Resources

• Storyblok Rich Text fields reference
• Storyblok Rich Text package
• Concepts - References
• Concepts - Fields