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.
Blog
Exploring the JAMstack, static sites, and the future of web development. Subscribe to our newsletter to make sure you don't miss anything.
All posts
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.
Contentful and GitHub help make JAMstack_Conf a reality
GitHub and Contentful bring so much to JAMstack_Conf as the platinum sponsors. Here's why.
Combining Netlify with Dropbox For a One-Click Publishing Process
Dropbox as CMS?! Why not? Every new file, every save action, can update your site, turning your Dropbox into one lean, mean, content machine!
Enterprise security for your Netlify Functions
Protect yourself against the worst type of app-level attacks via Intrinsic runtime policies
Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with a global 'Application Delivery Network'
Netlify announced they have raised an additional $30m led by Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid with Andreessen Horowitz and the founders of Slack, Yelp, GitHub and Figma participating.
Funding update: our next steps for a better web
We have exciting news: fueled by that developer faith in us (thank you!), we’ve raised $30M in additional funding with Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, and the founders of Slack, Yelp, GitHub and Figma all participating.
Get more control over Netlify continuous deployment with deploy skipping
Learn how to suppress the automated build and deploy process, with deploy skipping in Netlify continuous deployment
Netlify and The Functional, Immutable, Reactive Deploy
Three game-changing software engineering paradigms, and how they relate to Netlify
I Went to React Boston and Saw the Future
Talking trends and trending talks at React Boston 2018
The 10 talks and many highlights of Vue London
Some of the highlights of Vue London which featured 10 talks and 6 lightning talks about the popular JavaScript framework, VueJS
How we built a Vue CLI Plugin for Netlify Lambda
In this post, we cover how we built a Netlify Lambda Vue CLI plugin that integrates with existing projects to build and serve AWS lambda functions.
Netlify DX Q&A: Gatsby v2 with Jason Lengstorf
Presenting the first in our new interview series with leaders and innovators in Developer Experience - and who better to start with than Gatsby!
International Service Worker Caching Awareness Day
The #1 issue our users have with service workers, and how we recommend fixing it
Forms and Functions
In previous posts, we’ve raved about how awesome forms are, especially when you get to take full advantage of them without having to even configure a backend to handle data collection. In this post, we cover how we can turbocharge our form workflows with functions.
How to run Express.js apps with Netlify Functions
Learn how to use the popular node express.js framework with functions on Netlify.
The Rise of Immer in React
Immutability is changing - time for an exploration of why Immer is a philosophical fit with React! Why has Immer gained so much love this year, and does it have staying power?
Netlify CLI 2.0 now in Beta 🎉
Welcome to the Netlify CLI! The new 2.0 version was rebuilt from the ground up to help improve the site building experience.
How to Integrate Netlify Forms in a Vue App
A quick rundown on integrating Netlify forms into a Vue application.
Promoting Open Source with Netlify Snippet Injection
Many projects on Netlify are open source - we love it when folks show off with Github ribbons and corners! Here's an easy way to do it without even touching project source code - using Snippet Injection.
More confident deployments thanks to Netlify Deploy Summaries
Announcing the release of Deploy Summaries. Helping you to understand the status of your deploys even better.
This October: Attend The First-Ever JAMstack_conf
October 29th–30th 2018 brings the premier event to learn how to design, develop, and deploy fast, modern web projects that run without web servers.
Using the React DevTools Profiler to Diagnose React App Performance Issues
We had a big performance issue with rendering large server logs. Now we don't. All thanks to the DevTools Profiler.
The top 10 SSGs of 2018, according to StaticGen and GitHub
Our annual look at the top 10 static site generators according to their popularity on GitHub.
How to easily visualize a project's dependency graph with dependency-cruiser
Making it easier for people to get started contributing to open source with a visual representation of your project's dependancy graph
Enabling free wildcard domain certificates with Let's Encrypt
Wildcard certificates comes to Netlify bringing easy HTTPS to your subdomains. Here's a look at what was needed to make this happen, along with some help from our friends at Let's Encrypt.
Reflections on speaking at Concatenate Conf, Nigeria’s first international developer conference
A retrospective of one of the first international developer conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
Creating a status page for your company using cState
Using Netlify to host your project's status page with some help from cState
Announcing Netlify Drop - The simplicity of BitBalloon, with the added power of Netlify
BitBalloon becomes Netlify Drop. Still the same simple way to deploy a site via drag and drop, but now with access to the more powerful features of Netlify.
10 static site generators and popular uses for them in 2018
An exploration of some of popular static site generators and a little help with finding the right tool to use on your next project.
Five Key Benefits of "Going Serverless"
What "serverless" truly means for developers and 5 characteristics that define a serverless application
Exploring the potential of friction-free deployments
What I learned from an experiment to make a world clock from a static site generator and Netlify's build automation.
How to setup serverless OAuth Flows with Netlify Functions & Intercom
This tutorial demonstrates how to build OAuth flow with Intercom, simple-outh2 and Netlify functions
Netlify CMS 2.0 launches with BitBucket support and a new monorepo architecture
Announcing the release of Netlify CMS v2.0, with new BitBucket support and an improved project architecture designed to ease contribution and the extension of features.
Hugo tips: How to create author pages
Ever wondered how to create an author page in Hugo that displays the author’s name, their bio, and a list of their articles, like Wordpress does? Check out this tutorial to learn how.
The Reign of Static Site Generators 👑
Here’s our take on the history of static site generators, current trends, and where we see them heading moving forward (spoiler alert: look for serverless functions and headless CMSs to push the category forward).
Building Serverless CRUD apps with Netlify Functions & FaunaDB
This tutorial demonstrates how to build a CRUD backend using Netlify serverless functions and FaunaDB as the datastore.
Deploy a free Gatsby, Hugo, or Eleventy website template in 30 seconds
We’ve started a collection of quick-start website project templates. Whether you're looking for a free Gatsby blog template or a Gulp build pipeline, we've got easy options to deploy them for free in 30 seconds.
All new sites on Netlify are HTTPS by default
If you're hosting your site on Netlify, we'll automatically request a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, enabling HTTPS by default.
5 pro-tips and plugins for optimizing your Gatsby + Netlify site
Get the most out of Gatsby and Netlify with a few handy tips for your setup.
Buy and secure a custom domain through Netlify
Purchase a custom domain through Netlify and we'll automatically configure your site with DNS and HTTPS.
Bring your own reCAPTCHA to Netlify Forms
Protect your Netlify Forms with your own reCAPTCHA 2 site keys.
Netlify now shows your deploy status on its favicon
A short introduction to Netlify's status favicons, and the process and ideas behind their creation.
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure
Learn how we planned, tested, and executed our first multicloud migration that could direct traffic to Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, and Rackspace Cloud on demand, without any service interruptions.
Node.js 8.10 now available in Netlify functions
Netlify's AWS Lambda integration now includes support for Node.js 8.10
JAMstack architecture on Netlify: How Identity and Functions work together
Take a deeper look at how to use Functions together with Netlify’s Identity feature to access and update user data, and allow your users to send you a message that you receive directly on Slack. All it takes is a little bit of glue code to bring the services together.
Netlify's AWS Lambda functions bring the backend to your frontend workflow
Netlify now handles your AWS Lambda functions so you don't have to. Bring all the power of microservices to your site without setting up servers, writing server-side code, or managing multiple accounts.