what do you guys think of netlify?

Question

Is it better than firebase or github pages? more secure? Good for complex website? dynamic or static?

Answer 1

6 choices in my opinion:

1. Firebase Hosting
2. Netlify
3. Github Pages
4. Gitlab Pages
5. Bitbucket Pages
6. Forge

for hosting (free), everything is good ... My choice is 1,2,3. best for now ... but the choice is yours

Answer 2

From what I know :
The way Netlify has instrumented static site generation, makes it really easy to federate the creation of the sites amongst a large group of people, especially distributed around the world like we are. It ties into whatever code management system you want to use.

More Secure! When you look at security vulnerabilities and site performance issues–especially at load and at scale–nothing beats the speed, the performance and the load capacity of a properly setup modern static site.

So far I have:
1. A webserver that allows listing and reading of files
2. A file-system backend implementation that uses the webserver
3. An example hugo static site along with it netflify-cms configuration

From my point a view, here's what's missing:
1. Use of webpack for the webserver implementation (I'm really short here)
2. Saving files via the webserver
3. Error handling in both the webserver and the file-system backend

from my knowledge ^^

Answer 3

Imade Andika Suwartama

then if i wanted to have a static website (for free) with subdomains and form submissions to database. What would you propose?

Answer 4

thx youuuu

Answer 5

if anyone still want to answer i would love to hear it. because a lot of people want to become developers but they only have front end skills... this site helps a lot with front end. but doesn't give much of back end...
every help is appreciated!

Answer 6

netlify makes static website from Github

Answer 7

so you would prefer github pages, right?

Answer 8

You're welcome! and GL

Answer 9

Use Heroku to setup Node.js as backend for running front end webpages. In this way, you have exposure of backend as well.

Signup Heroku is free and it's easy to setup a express/Node.js in heroku, try to find some YouTube tuturials.

I just setup one not long ago, just setup Nodejs and post a code playground code there.
https://i-love-sololearn.herokuapp.com