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How Jamstack Explorers Was Made: Next.js, Netlify, Sanity.io, Cloundinary, Serverless Functions and More!
The DX team at Netlify recently created a free Jamstack learning platform, this post discusses some of the awesome technologies involved.
Slice Machine: a workflow for developing and deploying website sections
Ever thought about using components for sections of your web pages? With Slice Machine, you can build page sections, define their model, edit properties, deploy them, and deliver a visual interface that allows even your most technically challenged colleagues to easily build pages without …
Top 10 Netlify Build Plugins
Netlify recently announced Build Plugins, which allow you to customize your build process with one click from the UI, and we list the top 10 most popular Build Plugins by installs.
See 13 Netlify features for the best control of development workflow
We asked Netlify's Developer Experience team about their favourite features to create a powerful developer workflow. Find out what they said.
Creating a status page for your company using cState
Using Netlify to host your project's status page with some help from cState
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.
Ep. #26, Video and Image Optimization with Cloudinary
In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian and Ben are joined by Cloudinary’s Robert Moseley to discuss how his and other developer tools can help free up a lot of bandwidth taken up by poorly optimized videos and images.
Built on Netlify: deploy a site with Scrivito CMS
When you deploy a site that uses Scrivito CMS, you're actually deploying on Netlify. This means access to all of the workflow essentials like like continuous deployment, domain management, and HTTPS.
Ep. #25, Adopting GraphQL with Graphcool
In episode 25 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Johannes Schickling and Soren Bramer Schmidt, the co-founders of Graphcool, a GraphQL backend development framework. They discuss the evolution of GraphQL, the communities that surround it and its use in production.
Ep. #24, Server-Side Rendering with Postmates
In Ep. #24 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Trey Huffine, software engineer at Postmates, an on-demand delivery service based in San Francisco. The pair discusses the pros and cons of server-side rendering and the joys of React. Stick around for the latest picks!
A brief history of build tools
At Netlify we ask our users to leverage build tools so we may assist in the deployment of your project and this post will provide the context of what we actually mean by this. These tools package your project into a bundle that’s ready for deployment. They not only create a …
What build tools can do for you
There are build tools like webpack, gulp, and browserify, but no one knows how to really use them. The confusion to how these tools work prevents users from doing a deep dive and understanding build tools. I am looking answer the why behind build tools by revealing the key features you can …
Ep. #22, Static Site Generation With Gatsby.js
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio Brian invites Kyle Mathews, founder of Gatsby, onto the show to discuss the project. Gatsby is a framework that lets you build entire websites using React.js. Kyle describes what motivated him to build Gatsby and compares Gatsby with Jekyll, …
Service Workers Explained
Service Workers in the browser are getting a lot of attention lately, but what exactly are they? If you don’t mind I will do my best to answer that question and explain exactly you can do with them in the words to come.
Ep. #21, Why GitLab chose VueJS
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Jacob Schatz and Ben Mischenko. Jacob explains how he went about deciding on a JavaScript framework for GitLab and what drew him to Vue.js. He recalls his first project for evaluating Vue’s scalability and shares his thoughts on Vue’s …
Ep. #20, Spike: A Full Featured Static Website Generator
Hear Jeff Escalante at Carrot Creative talk about Spike, a next-generation static site generator. It is built on top of webpack, and has a foundation of html, css, and js parsers that accept plugins to transform the output. It’s fast, actively developed, and very data-friendly, you don't …
Ep. #19, Elm: A Well Built Compile to JavaScript Language
In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Richard Feldman and Brooke Angel from NoRedInk. They delve into Elm, a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript.
Ep. #18, An Introduction to Service Workers
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian hosts Zack Argyle & Eli Williamson to discuss what service workers are, and examine how Pinterest is using them for notifications and to cache JavaScript files.
Ep. #16, Contentful: An API-First CMS
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Stefan Judis and Rouven Wessling to discuss Contentful, a developer friendly API-first CMS.
Ep. #15, The Out Of Box Search Experience
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Vincent Voyer and Emily Hayman to discuss Algolia, a hosted search as a service.
Ep. #14, Pitching the JAMstack To Customers
Georges and Charles show that with Snipcart, a shopping cart that can be injected into a website with just a few lines of code.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exploring Preact with React
Progressive Web Apps have everyone interested in improving React's performance and footprint.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Deploy React Apps in less than 30 Seconds
Deploy React apps easily with Netlify.
Developing with ReactJS: An Interview with Gatsby's Kyle Mathews
GatsbyJS creator Kyle Mathews talks about his love for developing with ReactJS
Interview with Thomas Reynolds, Creator of Middleman
Thomas Reynolds talks to Netlify about Middleman, Git and developing with modern web tools.
Interview with Parker Moore from Jekyll
Parker Moore chats with Netlify about Jekyll, development and the future of static web tech.
Interview with Geoff Kimball of ZURB Foundation
ZURB's Geoff Kimball talks Foundation 6, Panini and Gulp
An Interview with Wade Warren
An interview about the value of static sites and CDN hosting with VP of Platform Engineering @ Wikia that serves 36,000 http requests per second.
Zapier Integration with Netlify
Use the Netlify Zap on Zapier to set Netlify events to trigger notifications in other services.
Smashing Magazine: Static Website Generators Reviewed: Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, Hugo
Our CEO Matt Biilmann compares 5 modern site generators; Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman & Roots.
Simple Responsive Images with Jekyll
Jekyll Srcset is a small plugin for Jekyll that may solve your most important responsive image needs, without making things ridiculously complicated. Here’s how you would use it in a Liquid template: {%raw%}{% image_tag src=page.thumbnail width="200" %}{%endraw%} With a …
Twickr—Send Tweets of Interest from Twitter to Slack
Twickr is a small open-source tool for automatically sending tweets of interest to Slack