Working with multiple content types

To define the types and content to use on our pages, we can navigate to Block library in Storyblok. By default, you will see four existing blocks: feature, grid, page, and teaser. Between the blocks, there are two different types. page is of the Content type, while the rest are of the Nestable type. The key difference is that Content type is a top-level type of content. You can consider it a sort of page with a unique URL. You use this to hold different compositions of the lower level of content type – that is, Nestable. These are the building blocks of the pages: you can add them to a page to build the content you like.

There’s also Universal type, which can act as either of the aforementioned types. We won’t use it in our example, though.

Let’s create a new block for our portfolio purposes by clicking on the + New Block button. For the technical name, we’ll have to fill in how the content will be identified...