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Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by mattfrommars »

icebraining wrote: post #20
d--b wrote: post #17

I have no idea what this does. Site generator? functions? edge logic? What?

It runs their platform on your laptop. If you want to know what "their platform" is, you can just click on the Products link. Essentially, it takes your code (from a repository), runs a build command (if configured), and serves the result over HTTP on some domain.

Isn't this something which you can do with Jenkins? Pull code from Github and deploy it on S3 bucket?

I learned Jenkins creating the pipeline to AWS in less than a day.

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by bytematic »

Touche wrote: post #31

Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…

Gatsby website that gets built and deployed live when I push to a git repo. It does CDN too, which puts it above the competition. For free

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by tln »

palidanx wrote: post #133
amrrs wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lately, I've been thinking to Port my Medium posts to Netlify. Could you please suggest any reason why you specifically mentioned this case ?

I use Netlify, but one of the issues I've had for CMS is easily uploading pictures like Medium. Are there any solutions to this? I know in the github integration workflow, you have to manually upload the file and then link it which is kind of a pain if doing multiple images.

Yes, netlify makes an open source CMS (single page app) which works with a bunch of static site generators. You can upload an image, edit the posts, and then the SPA will use github API to upload or edit.

https://www.netlifycms.org/

Just migrated our wordpress blog to jekyll + this. So far the content writers aren't super happy but the SEO speed scores are better :)

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by madeofpalk »

Touche wrote: post #31

Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…

> But you get free static sites through GitHub

GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that.

> nearly free static sites on Amazon S3

You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then.

Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for pull requests, or a/b testing different branches.

I run an open source video game companion site DestinySets.com where I have a lot of data in JSON files in my repo. Github + Netlify means I can take PRs for changes to the data, sometimes from non-programmers (or beginners), preview, merge and deploy from my phone, all for free (both money and time) Its pretty easy.

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by walterstucco »

madeofpalk wrote: post #146
Touche wrote: post #31

Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…

> But you get free static sites through GitHub GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that. > nearly free static sites on Amazon S3 You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then. Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for…

Of course it does it

It's called pages

Gitlab does it as well, and it's even better

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by icebraining »

mattfrommars wrote: post #141
icebraining wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It runs their platform on your laptop. If you want to know what "their platform" is, you can just click on the Products link. Essentially, it takes your code (from a repository), runs a build command (if configured), and serves the result over HTTP on some domain.

Isn't this something which you can do with Jenkins? Pull code from Github and deploy it on S3 bucket? I learned Jenkins creating the pipeline to AWS in less than a day.

Yes, but here you don't need to manage a Jenkins installation.

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by ltrcola »

Netlify has been pretty great so far. My team was able to use the promise of a super quick CMS integration with Netlify CMS to justify getting out of building another nasty WordPress site (what our editors are familiar with). The actual Netlify setup caused no trouble at all and let us seamlessly move off of GitHub Pages, and now we can put in an integrated build process with NPM or whatever else we need.

Netlify CMS itself is a lot more raw but I see huge potential there, especially since it's open source. Our InfoSec folks loved the idea of content changes as commits. And the maintainers on Gitter are super open to help folks and work through changes. Already submitted a PR that was accepted and has made it into a release. And we haven't paid them anything yet, even with Google Single Sign-On integrated.

Re: Netlify Dev

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Post by songzme »

With our existing trend of moving everything to the cloud, I wonder why development environments aren't going in the same direction as well. It has so many benefits. I code on my digital ocean server (vim and tmux) and it gives allot of the benefits that netlify mentions like streaming live. If I don't have my computer I can just borrow anyone's computer (or use a public computer in the library) to make quick fixes or even implement features, all of which will be immediately live even if I log out of the system. If my laptop is lost or damaged, I just get a replacement and pick up exactly where I left off. With tools like react native, I can also dabble with mobile development in the cloud.
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