Netlify Has Scheduled Functions
Hey! Scheduled Functions are cool! Think of them like a CRON job. I want this code to run every Monday at 2pm. I want this code run every hour on the hour. That kind of thing. Why would you want …
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Collecting Email Signups With the Notion API
A lot of people these days are setting up their own newsletters. You’ve got the current big names like Substack and MailChimp, companies like Twitter are getting into it with Revue, and even Facebook is getting into the …
CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify’s On-Demand Builders
WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site’s most recent posts, with just a specific set of data… in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere made a joke site using that.
At first, the site …
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Serverless Functions: The Secret to Ultra-Productive Front-End Teams
Modern apps place high demands on front-end developers. Web apps require complex functionality, and the lion’s share of that work is falling to front-end devs:
- building modern, accessible user interfaces
- creating interactive elements and complex animations
- managing complex application state
Netlify Background Functions
As quickly as I can:
- AWS Lambda is great: it allows you to run server-side code without really running a server. This is what “serverless” largely means.
- Netlify Functions run on AWS Lambda and make them way easier to use.
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Building Serverless GraphQL API in Node with Express and Netlify
I’ve always wanted to build an API, but was scared away by just how complicated things looked. I’d read a lot of tutorials that start with “first, install this library and this library and this library” without explaining why that …
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Make Yourself a Little API With Netlify Functions
Here’s an example of a nice little use case for cloud functions. Glitch has this great package of friendly words. Say you wanted to randomly generate “happy-elephant” or “walking-tree”, and you need to do that on your website in …
Static First: Pre-Generated JAMstack Sites with Serverless Rendering as a Fallback
You might be seeing the term JAMstack popping up more and more frequently. I’ve been a fan of it as an approach for some time.
One of the principles of JAMstack is that of pre-rendering. In other words, it generates …
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider …
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Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with …
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