Spam management for Netlify Forms
Check out the new spam management UI in Netlify Forms and take form handling to the next level!
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Wayfx Deploys Lightning-fast Headless WordPress to Netlify
How the web agency Wayfx brought the site for their client Dr. Anthony Gustin to a JAMstack architecture.
Featured site: Proxx. A site by Google Chrome Labs
An exploration into building games with web technologies, by the Google Chrome Labs team. Released and explained at Google I/O 2019, and hosted by Netlify.
The Road to Community: Part Four — Debut
Part four of our series on building a world class community for Netlify. Here, we go over some key takeaways from pulling off a successful launch that involved tripling our traffic just a few days after our debut.
Zero Config, yet Technology Agnostic: How Netlify Dev Detectors Work
One of the design goals for Netlify Dev is to be technology agnostic while still offering a magical, universal netlify dev command that “just works”. We accomplish this by using project detectors. Find out how!
Netlify Dev — our entire platform, right on your laptop
Netlify Dev is our next step on the road to making the experience of developing for the web as productive, simple, and predictable as possible.
Deploy CodeSandbox to Netlify
Announcing the CodeSandbox Netlify integration. Create and deploy sites to Netlify directly from within CodeSandbox!
Featured site: Tinkersynth
Tinkersynth - In-browser generative art that you'll want to hang on your wall.
A more flexible build architecture with updated Linux
One of our primary goals at Netlify is to make deployments something you don’t have to worry about. With that in mind, we designed our process for making a site from Git so that it “just works” with very little configuration. We get daily feedback about how much people love this!
Featured site: Curated
Curated is a searchable index of sites about web design. With sites suggested by the community it surfaces them through an elegant and performant interface.
Deep dive: How do React hooks really work?
In this article, we reintroduce closures by building a tiny clone of React Hooks. This will serve two purposes - to demonstrate the effective use of closures in building our React Hooks clone itself, and also to implement a naive mental model of how Hooks work under the hood. Finally, we …
Software Engineering Daily - Podcast interview with Matt Biilmann
Matt Biilmann, our very own co-founder and CEO, talks to Software Engineering Daily about the reasons for and the challenges of building the Netlify infrastructure. About evolving for scale. And about the lessons learned from a background in music.
The Road To Community: Part Three — Create
Part three of our series on building a world class community for Netlify. Content is the king of value — but what is the best way to efficiently create content that engages?
FaunaDB & JAMstack with Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson talks about the origins of FaunaDB and how it works swimmingly with the JAMstack.
Featured site: Nike - Just Do It
A campaign site from Nike, deployed and hosted as a JAMstack site with Netlify. With content from a headless CMS, and a Gatsby front-end.
Manage your code and assets together with Netlify Large Media
Netlify Large Media — a service built on top of Git LFS to enable you to manage all of your project's assets, including those large media files, all together in your git repo.
Netlify and bandwidth
Some clear guidance on our new bandwidth plans and pricing
Goodbye Medium — Kent C. Dodds
Kent C. Dodds explains why he migrated from Medium to his own JAMstack site, and shows us his approach to leaving no URL behind. Made possible by Netlify's redirects and serverless functions.
Accessibility is not a “React Problem”
Nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps.
The role of roles and how to set them in Netlify Identity
Role management is an integral part of any application's authorization process. In this post, we examine the part roles play in securing your applications and how to effectively manage them.
Featured site: Gridsome
A static site generator for the VueJS community. With a pre-generated site hosted on Netlify and optimised for performance.
Featured site: HTTP Toolkit
HTTP Toolkit's site is hosted on Netlify and uses Netlify Functions, Sentry, and Paddle for the accounts and purchasing flows.
The Road To Community: Part Two — Distill
Part two of our series on building a world class community for Netlify. How do you pick the right forum software? Here's how we chose.
Improved Netlify Forms spam filtering using Akismet
We're very excited to announce, that starting today, all form submissions will be filtered for spam using Akismet, an industry leader in spam detection.
Restrict access to your sites with role based redirects
Restricting access to your content is important to keeping your content secure from unauthorized users. In this post, we dive into how to configure role based redirects with Netlify.
Sharing the love with Netlify Deployment Badges
Netlify Deployment Badges are now live! The badges will allow to see and share the status of your most recent deployment right from your website or repository README.
How to Use GraphQL with Vue Apollo Components and Netlify Functions
Markus Oberlehner demonstrates how he uses Netlify Functions to add a GraphQL backend to his VueJS application.
Featured site: Synthetic
Synthetic: A Spotify-powered, data-driven music discovery tool. Deployed by Netlify.
The importance of Developer Experience with GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner
7 Questions about JAMstack and developer experience, with the legendary founder of GitHub
How to scale massive React Static sites with Incremental Builds
When it comes to things like eCommerce, real-time data, or websites with hundreds of thousands of pages, static site build times can get way out of hand and quickly become unrealistic. If static sites and the JAMstack are to take over the world, this has to change. Here's why you need …
Redirect Rules for All; How to configure redirects for your static site
Rewrite rules help determine the flow of traffic to your sites. In this post, lets walk through configuring redirect rules with your existing Netlify deploys.
Ghost on the JAMstack
Ghost CMS embrace the JAMstack and announce their move to being a decoupled CMS
Featured site: Raspberry Pi Projects
A multilingual site showcasing an extensive repository of projects to help people get started building and coding with their Raspberry Pi computers.
The Ethics of Web Performance
Tim Kadlec writes about the ethical implications of performance on the web
Featured site: Squoosh.app
An impressive example of a progressive web application which demonstrates both performance and power in the browser.
Featured site: Hopper
Hopper's excellent multilingual JAMstack site, hosted on Netlify
DNS redundancy with Netlify’s dedicated DNS network
Announcing Netlify’s dedicated DNS network – an extra level of resilience for your sites’ DNS.
One month after launch, Netlify is Zapier's 3rd most popular new integration
Zapier released their Fastest Growing Apps of 2018 report, ranking Netlify as the third most popular of all integrations launched in the last year.
GoTrue JS - bringing authentication to static sites with just 3kb of JS
For the uninitiated, integrating authentication into an application can be a confusing, if not daunting process. In this post, we dive into adding authentication into your JAMstack apps.
Richer GitHub integrations come to Netlify thanks to GitHub Apps
Announcing a better GitHub integration via GitHub Apps.
Deploying Netlify Sites with AWS CloudFormation
How to deploy Netlify sites with AWS Cloudformation, SAM, and the Serverless Framework
Fearless deploys for your lingering processes
We introduced a small feature to our build-image: a lingering process monitor
Authentication for the REST of us
Authentication can be a daunting concept to grok, especially for the uninitiated. In this post, we'll dive into what authentication is and the various options you have when working with authentication in your apps.
Announcing IPv6 support on the Netlify Application Delivery Network
Announcing IPv6 support on the Netlify Application Delivery Network
TO VueConf and Beyond
Highlights from VueConf Toronto 2018
Automate your Netlify sites with Zapier
Looking for more ways to automate your workflow? Learn more about the Zapier-Netlify integration that connects you and your Netlify site to 1,000+ apps.
How to Earn Cryptocurrency with your Netlify Site
An easy way to dip your toe in the crypto waters and earn Basic Attention Tokens when people visit your site!
An interview process to learn from - ImageMagick Lessons and ATS contributions
Netlify interview process resulted into helping the open source community.
The Road To Community: Part One — Define
Part One of a Multi-Part Series on Building a Community for Netlify.
React Suspense with Netlify Functions
Netlify Functions are the best way to locally emulate and deploy a React Suspense app. Here's how.