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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.
Serverless File Uploads
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Serverless project that uploads files directly to S3.
New to JAMstack? How to make a site from A to Z
A step-by-step guide on how to make a website using JAMstack practices. Take a blank canvase and turn it into a functional static site.
3 of the Most Common Errors in React
React also does a great job with returning descriptive error messages when you make mistakes while creating your application. This post will walk through 3 of the most common error messages you will come across when writing React code.
Yarn support on Netlify
Netlify now detects your yarn.lock files and stores the yarn cache for reusage.
Smashing Magazine: How To Issue A New SSL Certificate With An Old SSL Key
Our CEO Matt Biilmann on public key pinning. HTTPS is important, but make sure to get your certificates right. Part 2
Ep. #4, The Serverless Framework & AWS Lambda
In Episode 4 of JAMstack Radio, Brian and Ryan are joined by engineer David Wells who explains the Serverless Framework and automation using AWS Lambda. The three cover topics including potential pain points of complex microservices, advantages of event-driven architectures, and writing …
A Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying A Static Site or Single-page App
Make your site blazing fast with this step-by-step guide on how to deploy a static site or single-page app on Netlify.
Smashing Magazine: Be Afraid Of HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
Our CEO Matt Biilmann on public key pinning. HTTPS is important, but make sure to get your certificates right. Part 1
Netlify Playground, our first Elm application in production
Netlify Playground will help you validate Netlify configuration files to deploy them with confidence.
Building a RESTful API in go
RESTful APIs are great, adding them is simple too!
How Our Build Bots Build Sites
How we build your site, what can go wrong, and how to fix it
NS1: Netlify Leverages NS1 to Improve Performance Across More Than 60,000 Sites
Our head of infrastructure Ryan Neal writes on how the right DNS setup drastically increases performance.
Serverless JAM - A Serverless Framework Tutorial (Part 2)
This is part two of a tutorial about the Serverless Framework - In this part we will create custom lambda functions for “Serverless Beer”, a (fictitious) craft beer company.
Ep. #3, Designing For The Modern Web
Join Brian and Rafael Conde in episode 3 of JAMstack Radio as they share their stories of designing and coding for the modern web. The two discuss how both web design and code are evolving at an increasing rate, the proliferation of fantastic build tools, frameworks, and languages, and …
Integrating With Netlify: OAuth2
Netlify has an extensive developer API that enables anybody to build integrations and services on top of our service. This tutorial will show how to integrate any service with Netlify by using our OAuth2 provider.
Introducing Our Domain Dashboard
Buying a domain is easy, but when it comes connecting your DNS, things can get confusing. Netlify prides itself in being a tool that offers one-click continuous deploys and are unveiling a new feature today which makes the DNS connection just as simple.
Angular to React: Gradual Migration vs Rewrite From Scratch
When migrating from Angular to React, should you do a gradual migration vs a complete rewrite?
Access Local Environment Variables using Webpack
Building a Frontend JavaScript application in any framework will most like have you using a modern build tool like Gulp or Webpack. At Netlify we built our application and site dashboard using React as our frontend framework and Webpack as our build tool.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to deploy a site on Netlify.
Refactoring towards Pure Components in React
Since working with React I have noticed a frequent change in the way Components are written. This is a round up of all those ways.
The JAMstack Radio
Brian talks with Matt Biilmann, the Co-founder and CEO of Netlify, about the origins of the term JAMstack and the massive changes in web infrastructure over the past decade that have made this new stack possible.
Making Netlify's website fully searchable
We just made Netlify's website fully searchable!
A Step-by-Step Guide: Victor-Hugo on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website made with static site generator Hugo.
Ep. #2, The JAMstack Origin Story
In the second episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks with Matt Biilmann, the Co-founder and CEO of Netlify, about the origins of the term JAMstack and the massive changes in web infrastructure over the past decade that have made this new stack possible.
Serverless JAM - A Serverless Framework Tutorial
Finding a modern toolset to create truly fast, secure and dynamic sites has been an endless search. With JAMstack and the Serverless approach, we have just that. JAMstack sites are fast and secure by nature, and while they are static, 90% of the features that once required a custom backend …
Grouping Immutable Deploy Data
We recently wrapped up a UI update to the deploys page and laid our Cards on the table. This is a quick explanation of how we used Immtuable JS to display our new deploy data.
Creating a Microservice Boilerplate in Go
Microservices are great, they required a lot of rote code. Here is the template we use
Ep. #1, Introducing JAMstack Radio
In this first episode, Brian is joined by Aaron Autrand, and Christian Schlensker to discuss the JAMstack and some of it’s best applications.
A Game of Cards
Two weeks ago we released a new and improved user interface for our Deploys screen.
Introducing Deploy Contexts in Netlify
Deploy Contexts are the way to tell Netlify how to build your site. They give you flexibility to configure your site's build depending the context they are going to be deployed to.
August 22nd DDoS Learning Review
Last August 22nd our main load balancer was impacted by a DDoS attack. This is what happened and what we learned from it.
Converting Angular to React, JSX
Converting Angular templates to React components can be straight forward if you follow a few rules and tricks.
Netlify Raises $2.1M from the founders of GitHub, Heroku, and Rackspace Cloud
Today we're happy to announce a round of seed financing for Netlify.
From Unstable to Reliable: A Release Engineering Journey
Release engineering is hard, tedious, and error prone. We help.
New backend-less form submissions tab in Netlify
See the submissions for your backend-less forms directly on Netlify.
User Generated Content
We want to hear how you are using Netlify
Migrate GitHub Pages to Netlify
How to migrate a GitHub Page to Netlify using the CLI
Converting Angular to React, Exploring The Basics
Converting Angular controllers to React components can be straight forward if you follow a few rules and tricks.
Our conversion from Angular to React
We quietly shipped our new React UI and it went relatively unnoticed
Deploy React Apps in less than 30 Seconds
Deploy React apps easily with Netlify.
Introducing Deploy Previews in Netlify
Deploy every pull request from your git repository to a unique URL.