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Will leave a small disclaimer here that Surge hasn't seen many updates to its repo recently so be aware of that. Certainly safe to use now (...
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I've used Netlify and Zeit Now and I can confirm that they're great alternatives in the same space.
Zeit Now is not quite as simple to start with but if you happen to be using something like Next.js then it makes a great combination (Next.js is also developed by the Zeit team).
Excellent entry, thanks for the review. I've tried surge.sh, loved the simplicity just as you described. Just yesterday seen thanosjs.org/ (bragging at the bottom that it was built with drag and drop netlify) deployed on netlify which is really gaining momentum in the static web dev world (reddit, twitter...) + new features like this seem promising. Do you know if they offer 200 redirect also or similar nice to have feats? Thanks again.
Great post. I also very recently migrated my blog from Gitlab Page to Netlify. I have my own reasons, please check it out at my blog post blog.agung.io/post/2019-03-06-my-b...
Followed you. Hope to see more content of this quality and passion. RT'd as well. Great work!
Thanks so much! Yep, have a couple ideas on the backburner :)
Will leave a small disclaimer here that Surge hasn't seen many updates to its repo recently so be aware of that. Certainly safe to use now (haven't seen any vulnerability warnings), but worth looking out for in the future. If the project ends dying off Netlify and Zeit Now are great alternatives that offer similar benefits over GitHub Pages π
What I absolutely love about Netlify is that in their .toml file you can duplicate your routes (given you don't have a zillion of them, otherwise it gets cumbersome) and have those serve your entry file. Anything else you can catch with a wildcard, return a 404 status and still display your SPA to handle the error page. Of course an SSG would defeat this purpose, but it's great if you have a very dynamic API driven SPA or the likes. Also Netlify allows you to configure security headers and other nifty bits.
(No affiliation, just an avid user in love with a service)
What would you say is the killer advantage over Netlify?
Great question! Honestly haven't experimented too much with the Netlify CLI, but looking it over it seems really nice. Guess you could argue Surge gets you going in literally 1 command and Netlify takes a couple more seconds but that's really nit-picky π The
200.htmlfallback is still really nice to have in Surge, but will confess it does not work in subdirectories which is disappointing.Overall I'd say, especially since Surge hasn't gotten any updates recently but the Netlify community is going strong, Netlify is a great choice.
Netlify redirects are simply divine π©π
I'm a bit disappointed with Zeit, because there are breaking changes too often, and now they're deprecating long-running containers completely, which many use.
git-scripts wasn't working for Windows machine last I tried. Doesn't seem to be updated.
github.com/nkzawa/git-scripts/issu...
Aw, that's really a shame. Looks like the git-hooks project being used for this isn't being maintained well. Thankfully there are alternatives independent from Surge that can get the job done. Here's a list of options, or a way to get it working on your own
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Great post! I've been happily using GitHub pages for so long that I've never bothered to learn much about the alternatives.
Thanks for the thorough review of Surge!
This is awesome I didn't know that is something like this.
How to build and deploy GitHub repo to Surge via mobile?