The importance of Developer Experience with GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner
7 Questions about JAMstack and developer experience, with the legendary founder of GitHub
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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.
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.