Top Ten Static Site Generators of 2017
In this countdown, we will review the top ten static website generators of 2017 so far.
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Design Series: Typography
Picking a good user interface typeface is not an easy task — here's some of our explorations and decisions for the new chapter of our app.
Accessibility on the Modern Web
Explore tips, tools, and best practices on accessibility on the modern web.
Using GraphQL to manage open source repositories
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. I will walk through setting up GraphQL in a React project that saves notes on interesting open source projects using Graphcool as a GraphQL backend as a service and Apollo as a …
Ep. #13, Staying Cool with Graphcool
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Johannes Schickling and Eli Williamson to discuss Graphcool, a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL & AWS Lambda.
Migrating your Jekyll site to Netlify
Move your Jekyll site from GitHub Pages to Netlify in just a few steps!
Optimizing Your CDN Strategy for the Ever-Changing Online World
When individuals or businesses opt to use CDN services, their primary goal is to provide a delightful experience to website visitors. Ensuring a fast loading website, despite the distance between access point of the visitor and server where the website is hosted became a thing of utmost …
How to do redirects on Netlify
You can configure redirects and rewrite rules for your Netlify site by adding a _redirects file to the root of your site folder (note, if you’re running a build command, the _redirects file should end up in the folder you’re deploying. It’s not enough to have on in the root of your …
Ep. #12, FaaS and the Benefits of Serverless
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Ryan Scott Brown and David Wells to examine the rise of Functions as a Service (FaaS).
Adding Algolia DocSearch to Netlify CMS
Adding search to JAMstack sites is a new thing for me but not a new thing for Algolia. Algolia is a hosted search tool that provides lightning fast search results. I decided to give Algolia a try for our new Netlify CMS documentation and discovered their DocSearch solution.
Creating a blog with Middleman and Netlify CMS
Getting started is often the easy part, but staying consistent is where most aspiring bloggers fall short. At Netlify we sought out to help solve this with an open source solution, Netlify CMS.
Clean up promise handling with resolvePromiseProperties
resolvePromiseProperties allows you to take an object which has promises as some of its properties and get a promise that resolves to an object where all the promises are replaced with their resolved value.
Ep. #11, Exploring GraphQL Through Apollo
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Sashko Stubailo and Jonas Helfer from Meteor to discuss Apollo, a set of tools developed to make GraphQL easier to use.
Netlify Plus Hugo 0.20 and Beyond
Upgrading and testing Hugo 0.20 and any future release.
Selective Password Protection
How to set up Password protection for specific deploys
Design Series: Our App's New Color Palette
Today we are going to address the color palette chosen to paint our backgrounds, our buttons, which gives our app it's look and feel.
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Ep. #10, Learning JavaScript with Free Code Camp
Discuss Free Code Camp’s ‘self study together’ approach that has grown their community
Why You Don't Need Cloudflare with Netlify
Cloudflare can do lots of great things for websites, but Netlify's features can make a pairing of the two redundant.
A 2.0 Grid System
Kicking off this Design Series with our grid system — the building blocks, the scale that will be used to make a lot of layout decisions, keep a coherent look throughout the app, and make implementation a lot more simple.
An Open Source CMS with a Git-Centric Workflow
A CMS that is open-source but fully-featured and production-ready, that’s as easy to customize as it is to use, and that developers and content editors can build a community around.
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
There was a modern web renaissance taking place and Smashing planned to be a part of it. After learning their site could be 6x faster if they took advantage of a global CDN, Smashing made the decision to choose the JAMstack and partnered with Netlify to get the job done.
Who Moved My (Cheese) Manual Deploys?
With our new User Interface, some elements were moved around. Here's how you perform a Manual Deploy.
Introducing A New Design System
We are beginning to roll out the first of many iterations to our app‘s user interface.
You might not need to build that script anymore
Regularly I see posts on Twitter and Medium about how a clever developer used a hand-built script to build and deploy their websites using git. I applaud the effort and determination but want to mention all others that this doesn't have to be the norm.
To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design
Learn about a few ways that distributed systems can communicate.
To WWW or not WWW
Your DNS Setup can have a great effect on performance and DDoS resilience.
Better Living Through Caching
Learn about the ins and outs of caching at Netlify.
Ep. #9, Shifting WordPress to the JAMstack
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Daniel Olson, Lead Developer at J2 Design and Shinichi Nishikawa, WordPress enthusiast and key reviewer in WordPress.org’s Theme Review Team.
Verifying your header rules configuration
Learn how to use Netlify's Playground to test your header rules.
How To Shave time Off Of Your Load Time (It’s Really, Really Easy)
Taking the right steps during the start of web development can result in faster, less bloated, scalable and more secure sites.
Ep. #8, Isomorphic Rendering in the JAMstack
A chat on isomorphic rendering in the JAMstack and the staggering performance improvements.
Learning Review for our Feb 2 Origin Outage
Background and preventive measures for our Feb 2 Origin Outage
Why your next site should be built with JAM
There’s no reason to have a massive, unwieldy CMS with a database or a fancy isomorphic monolith when you could have a fast, secure and beautiful static site. But how can you decide if a new site is right for you?
Best Practices: Getting started with Netlify
Tips for setup & configuration of a new Netlify site
Exploring Preact with React
Progressive Web Apps have everyone interested in improving React's performance and footprint.
Setting Cookies in React
Setting up cookies is something pretty trivial in web development. In this post I walk through the process doing it in React.
Common JavaScript functions with Lodash
There are some things in JavaScript that seem tedious to write. When I first started learning the language a few years back, I found a few common functions like shuffle and range that are included in the Ruby and Python API, but are just not available with JavaScript. Luckily there are …
Keep your site stable with Locked Deploys
Locked Deploys help you keep stable versions of your sites in production.
4 Key Concepts of Webpack
Webpack is JavaScript module bundler that has taken the world by storm, but a lack of great docs and wealth of boilerplates have led to many people using it, but not understand it.
Ep. #7, DraftJS & Rich Text Editing On The Web
In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian Douglas and Mathias Biilmann of Netlify are joined by Serverless’ Nik Graf, co-creator of DraftJS Plugins. On the agenda for this discussion is the emergence of new and better rich-text editors, and how React has changed the game for front-end …
An Open Source Tale
Netlify loves open source and shows that through a variety of initiatives. From spear-heading our own projects, to offering a Pro plan to OS projects, we believe OS is imperative to the future of the modern web category.
Try Out GraphQL
GraphQL is an open source query language from Facebook to connect APIs to Frontend applications. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API and gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more.
Ep. #6, Style Guides at Airbnb
In the sixth episode of JAMstack Radio, Netlify’s Brian Douglas and Cassandra Salisbury are joined by Airbnb Frontend Engineer Harrison Shoff for a discussion on linters, what makes for a good style guide and why they are so important for growing engineering teams.
Migrating to a Static Site with JAMstack & Netlify
Escape the constant admin and update cycles of those bulky server-dependent softwares such as Wordpress, Drupal, and Heroku. Make your site faster with virtually no maintenance so you can spend more time doing what you love (and let us take care of the grunt work).
Unveiling: Netlify News
Best practices on building, deploying and maintaining websites is changing tremendously fast right now. Therefore it has always been one of our goals as a company is to provide plenty of compelling, useful material for our users to choose from.
Learning Review for our 22 November API and Origin outage
A review of the causes behind and our reactions to the 22 Nov API/Origin outage
Ep. #5, GraphQL at GitHub
We sat down with Kyle Daigle, manager on the API team at GitHub to chat about how they implement GraphQL into their API at GitHub.
Introducing the Deploy to Netlify button
The new "Deploy to Netlify" button helps you launch a new site from a template right away, just one single click required.
Prerendering Explained
Prerendering is a process to preload all elements on the page in preparation for a web crawler to see it. This is very important tool for Single Page JavaScript applications where SEO is needed.