Featured site: Tinkersynth
Tinkersynth - In-browser generative art that you'll want to hang on your wall.
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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.
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