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Using Netlify to the Fullest

Brian Rinaldi on June 14, 2019

Some tools make getting started so simple that it becomes easy to overlook all the features it offers. When everything "just works" out of the box,...
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kbrock84

Great post! I've been meaning to dig deeper into Netlify, especially since the release of Netlify Dev.

I accidentally started using preview deploys on GitHub pull requests. Looks like branch deploys are pretty sweet. No need for a PR to preview!

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Rick Booth

Netlify CMS seems pretty good too, and already has starter templates for most common frameworks so you can quickly get started with it.

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Brian Rinaldi

Agreed. In fact, I have a two part series covering Netlify CMS here on dev.to.

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Rick Booth

Oh nice one! Just checked it out and it looks great.

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Andrew Wooldridge

Thanks for this article! Netlify is awesome, and this article made me want to dive deeper into it's features.

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calag4n

I didn't know about Netlify-Dev !
Well... They blow my mind... again 😆 !

Thanks for the tips .

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Peter Witham

Thanks for the post, it never even occurred to me that schedule a deploy using zapier, fantastic idea.

Thank You.

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Richik SC

The date information should be rendered client side to not have to build your site every day.

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Brian Rinaldi

I could do that but the randomization of the featured items requires it as well anyway.

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Rick Booth

Static sites will usually outperform sites with heavy client side rendering, especially on mobile devices as they seem to hate JavaScript :D

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Richik SC

I fully agree, but rendering relative dates client side isn't exactly heavy client side rendering. You could even defer the script until the site has finished loading, and you wouldn't need a framework or library