Hey hey!

So I’m testing out this Notion API Integration to create a real-time blog without the need for a Heroku-deployed backend.

The goal for this site is to eventually create custom blogs for personal use or for clients who want a website that is easily customizable without the need for a website builder.

Behind-the-Scenes

What you don’t see in this app right now is what I’m most interested in. Using Notion, you have the ability to implement properties for each Blog Post, creating a more complex object for each post as it relates to the Next.js framework.

Published

The first thing that I wanted to implement was a filter for Published posts. That way if a post is in the writing process, nothing will be shown on the website until the published checkmark is set to ‘true’ using a simple boolean switch in Notion.

So you actually aren’t even seeing the full database of posts right now! Thankfully Notion’s API allows for a very easy filtering call using the JavaScript SDK that allows only certain conditions of properties to be selected in the fetch.

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