This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Jamal Ckuku
This is a submission for the Storyblok Challenge
What I Built
A simple, performant hiking tour website built using Storyblok + Next.js 14
Purpose: Demonstrate proficiency in CMS integration, live content editing, and dynamic site building
This project shows how one can quickly set up a site using Storyblok’s visual editor. It supports both draft and published views and integrates cleanly with modern frontend tools.
Demo
Storyblok Space:
hiking-tour-site.vercel.app
Code Repository:
https://github.com/jamalckuku/hiking-tour-site
Demo Video or Screenshots
Tech Stack
• Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router)
• CMS: Storyblok (Visual Editor, Content API, Image Service)
• Deployment: Vercel
• Styling: TailwindCSS
• Language: TypeScript
• Utilities: ESLint, Vercel CI/CD, Storyblok SDK
I chose a modern stack focused on performance, scalability, and CMS flexibility
How I Used Storyblok
Key Features:
o Draft content fetching enabled
o Live editing support through Storyblok Visual Editor
o Dynamic routing of tours via Storyblok folder structure
Created reusable, structured content blocks for each tour
Enabled dynamic routing, nestable components, and visual editing
Storyblok’s schema system lets me structure content precisely.This a block of content type, This ‘Tour’ model supports reuse, versioning, and rich content.One also consfigures the validation for each field.
AI Integration
Learnings and Takeaways
Storyblok offers a visual editor, real-time collaboration, flexible content modeling, and support for localization and versioning. Unlike traditional headless CMSs, Storyblok uniquely provides a Visual Editor, enabling marketers and content creators to see a live preview of their changes without developer assistance.
In my demo project, content editors can visually preview hiking tour updates using the Draft Mode and Visual Editor though it lacks native support for organizing spaces into folders. Discovered Storyblok supports folder-based routing using slugs. In frameworks like Next.js, dynamic routing is implemented using […slug].tsx and content is fetched by matching the path.Storyblok also supports field-level translation or separate content trees per language. Each language has its own slug and content version.
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Jamal Ckuku