👋, Back at it again with another Headless + Preview experience using our favorite tools here at The Couch. This time instead of using Next.js for my Gatsby preview I decided that the build pipeline for the site was actually fast enough to just create a second environment within Netlify…

You just spent weeks/months building and coding a lovely new website. You’ve done everything to prepare for launch. Ran through the checklist of items needed, optimized images, fixed any 404s, ran through some ADA checks and prepped the DNS, set up redirects… etc. The one thing you can’t prepare in…

I’m sure some of you are familiar with Slate, the toolkit that Shopify released that powers custom Shopify experiences. It’s a huge awesome step in the right direction and a much better experience than Themekit. Shopify development has improved a lot over the last 5 years, I still remember the…

Contentful is a really powerful CMS that we use on a number of projects at The Couch. However despite most of our clients having an intimate hate for Wordpress, they do have an intimate love for some of the common features. …

Over the last year we’ve built a number of quizzes and application flows (sign ups, onboardings, & product builders). While building these flows we decided to a build a library for handling this seemingly repeatable experiences. As such React Strider was born. At it’s core React Strider is a library…

While building websites regardless of the platform we often need to add some form of contact form. If you’re using Mailchimp you generally don’t have to build something server side, and you can actually read my other article about RIMP (which is a react Mailchimp component). However RIMP wasn’t enough…

Today we’re going to be hooking up a Contentful blog into a Shopify experience. This is by no means a beginner article but I’ll do my best to make it easy to follow. …

I’ve done a lot of bad things to Shopify, a lot of things you’re not supposed to, a lot of things that most likely terrified the developer that had to inherit the code after me. …

I find myself open sourcing more things or at least trying, and as a result also writing about those things more and more. So to that I present you with a little component I’ve used on a number of websites in 1 way or another (with variations of course): the-couch/rimp rimp - clientside mailchimp subscriptionsgithub.com Usage…