Let's keep talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A recap of the JAMstack posts from the second week of our 2020 JAMuary series.
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Talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A review of the JAMstack post from the first week of JAMuary this year.
Git-Centric Workflow: The One API to Rule Them All
Netlify isn't *only* about JAMstack - there are a host of other design principles that inform the developer experience and product strategy users know and love. **Git-Centric Workflow** is a core philosophy embraced by Netlify, and listed as a [JAMstack Best …
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 …
Accessibility is not a “React Problem”
Nothing in React prevents us from building accessible web apps.
The importance of Developer Experience with GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner
7 Questions about JAMstack and developer experience, with the legendary founder of GitHub
TO VueConf and Beyond
Highlights from VueConf Toronto 2018
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
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!
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?
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.
Exploring the potential of friction-free deployments
What I learned from an experiment to make a world clock from a static site generator and Netlify's build automation.
The Reign of Static Site Generators 👑
Here’s our take on the history of static site generators, current trends, and where we see them heading moving forward (spoiler alert: look for serverless functions and headless CMSs to push the category forward).
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure
Learn how we planned, tested, and executed our first multicloud migration that could direct traffic to Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, and Rackspace Cloud on demand, without any service interruptions.
Ep. #23, Working Open Source Into Your Day Job
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Kent Dodds to the studio for a chat. Kent describes how he manages to actively contribute to open source projects while balancing a full-time job and a family. He also weighs in on why the developer community has over-reacted to the …
Replacing our search with Algolia
Netlify has been using Algolia for search on our public marketing page for a few months and we've seen some noticeable improvements.
Learning Review for Build Network Outages in September 2017
We had 3 outages in early-mid September 2017. This post describes the causes and what we're doing to prevent future similar situations.
Ep. #17, The Rise of Design Systems
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Rafael Conde, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent & Craig Wattrus to share their experiences building design systems.
Net Neutrality Panel at JAMstack SF
JAMstack SF gathered to listen to a panel on Net Neutrality
JAMstack vs Isomorphic Server Side Rendering
The JAMstack runs against all that is Isomorphic JavaScript. It encourages the separation of code between your client and your API while leveraging the use of microservices. At the core, if your site is serving static content, it is exposing your site to fewer vulnerabilities. Sites are …
JAMstack conference videos
Last month we hosted the first ever JAMstack focused conference, and are happy to share the videos for those who were unable to attend.
JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine
Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
Top Ten Static Site Generators of 2017
In this countdown, we will review the top ten static website generators of 2017 so far.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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).
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. #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 …
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
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.
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 …
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?
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.