In this post, I will show how I interact with the Notion API using JavaScript to populate my application with data from my Notion account. However, Notion API makes this process super simple. However, this process included too many steps, so I avoided doing it frequently. Before discovering the Notion API, I used to export this database as a CSV and parse that CSV to populate the books list page. You can see what that database looks like here. That’s why I have a database in Notion that I could easily populate with book information and import into my website. You would probably need a visual editor accessible from anywhere to edit that content easily. Maintaining this kind of long and dynamic list using HTML can be cumbersome. There is a page on my website listing the books I like. It happens to be a great architectural decision for certain kinds of websites. A static website is displayed quickly from anywhere worldwide, can be hosted freely and wouldn’t crash under heavy traffic. Additionally, having a static website has some benefits in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness and resilience. Building, updating and deploying a website means a couple more steps are involved, but it doesn’t take much more time. This might sound cumbersome, but it isn’t. This means I must redeploy the website anytime I want to update it. This means that I have to provide all the information I want inside the website before deploying it on the web. My personal website is built as a static website. One of the ways that I use Notion is to create content for my personal website. It has so many capabilities that it slowly replaced many other tools I use daily. Notion is an awesome organizational tool I have been using for a long time.
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