Effortless Deployment and Automation with Netlify
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I'm able to deploy my web applications on Netlify easily using a live link. This feature is useful for publishing both front-end and back-end applications like those built with React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, and Django. The platform allows me to connect to real applications and deploy for various purposes such as ecommerce stores or client projects. I appreciate using artificial intelligence to help detect errors during deployment and enhance productivity. The command line interface, continuous integration, and continuous development features are great for ensuring my applications are always deployable and up to date, which helps prevent vulnerabilities and software rejections. Netlify automates the deployment process, checking for exposed .env variables and outdated software, which is crucial for maintaining security and functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
Netlify has where it requires you use a certain amount of credits. They have their own command line interface, which I can easily use within the terminal rather than using the web application. Or the web version and being able to manually deploy it. It also gives me error messages when it hasn't been successfully deployed to the platform and posted to the web. There's also some ways of detecting any vulnerabilities and how I can improve and protect the web application from vulnerabilities. Just like Cloudflare or Vercel, Vercel has a detection where it can tell if you're vulnerable and which platform is vulnerable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Netlify to deploy applications with live links, automate deployments using CLI, detect errors with AI, and ensure up-to-date software. It helps me showcase projects and handle servers efficiently, boosting productivity.
CI workflows have improved and platform automates frontend deployments with reliable previews
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Netlify Platform is deploying and hosting frontend web applications. I use it for continuous deployment from GitHub, fast builds, preview deployments, and easy SSL setup. I mainly use Netlify Platform for CI/CD automation for frontend projects, and it automatically builds and deploys applications from Git repositories, provides review environments, and simplifies hosting and SSL management. I have considerable experience in this domain.
Beyond deploying applications, Netlify Platform helps streamline our workflow by enabling automated deployments, easy rollback to previous versions, environment variables management, and preview deployment helps our team review changes before production, which improves quality and reduces bugs. In simplified terms, it improves our workflow with automatic deployments, easy rollbacks, and preview environments, which saves time and reduces errors.
What is most valuable?
In my opinion, the best features of Netlify Platform are continuous deployment from Git, preview deployments, built-in SSL, and easy environment variables management. The feature I use the most is continuous deployment because it automatically builds and deploys the application whenever code is pushed to the Git repository. It saves time, reduces manual errors, ensures fast deliveries, and preview deployments are also very useful because they allow the team to review changes before going live. The best features are automatic deployments, preview build, SSL management, and Git integration. I mostly use continuous deployment because it speeds up releases and removes manual work.
Netlify Platform has improved our deployment speed and reliability. It reduces manual deployment efforts and minimizes configuration issues. Our release cycles become faster, and developers can focus more on development instead of infrastructure. Preview deployments also improve collaboration and reduce production bugs. We noticed faster go-live time, fewer deployment errors, and better team productivity. The platform increases deployment efficiency, reduces manual work, and improves release stability.
What needs improvement?
Overall, Netlify Platform works very well, but there is always room for improvement. Sometimes, build times can be slow for larger projects, and better build optimization or caching controls would help. Additionally, more advanced monitoring and logging features inside the platform would be very useful for troubleshooting. The improvements I would suggest are build performance, and more detailed analytics and monitoring features would make it even better. Better cost transparency and usage insights would also help teams manage budgets more effectively.
I would suggest that I would like to see better native support for advanced backend workflows and more customizable build pipelines. Enhanced security features and deeper integration with monitoring tools would also be valuable. These improvements would make the platform even more flexible for larger teams and enterprise use cases. More customization in build pipelines and better monitoring and security features would be great additions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Netlify Platform for three years because I deploy all my projects on Netlify Platform, ranging from basic projects to the most advanced. I have considerable experience in this domain.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Netlify Platform has been very stable in our experience. We have rarely faced any downtime, and most deployments and builds run reliably. Any minor issues were quickly resolved by the platform. In terms of scalability, it scales very well and easily handles increased traffic, more projects, and growing team usage without any additional infrastructure effort from our side. It supports our organization's growth and changing requirements effectively. Netlify Platform is stable with minimal downtime, and it scales easily to support growth without manual infrastructure management.
How are customer service and support?
For customer support, I have interacted with Netlify Platform's support team a few times, mainly through documentation and support tickets. The response was timely and helpful, and the issues were resolved efficiently. The documentation and community resources are also very strong. I have limited direct interaction with support, but the documentation and community resources are very helpful. Whenever we raise tickets, they cleared all the things very quickly. The response was very good. Overall, I would rate their customer support at eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Netlify Platform, we were hosting our application on a self-managed setup using AWS EC2 and manual deployment pipelines. The process required more maintenance and manual configuration. We switched to Netlify Platform to simplify deployments, reduce operational overhead, and improve deployment speed and reliability. We also evaluated other platforms such as Vercel and Firebase Hosting, but Netlify Platform offered better flexibility, easier CI/CD integration, and better team collaboration features for our use case. Previously, we used a self-managed AWS setup, but we switched to Netlify Platform for easier deployments and reduced maintenance. The experience is quite great using Netlify Platform, and I would continue with it in the future.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to start with a small project to understand the workflow of CI/CD because if you start as a beginner, growing in these terms with CI/CD will be very difficult. For small projects, I would suggest starting with the basic things. Make good use of preview deployments, environment variables, and Git integration. Also, monitor builds, performance, and pricing as the project scales to optimize usage and cost. Start small, explore automation features, optimize builds, and cost as you scale. I would rate this review at eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Fast deployment has enabled me to focus on building a sensor data dashboard and integrating APIs
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Netlify Platform is to deploy and host my app, which is a sensor-based dashboard that shows all the data from my company's sensors. For my sensor-based dashboard, I mainly relied on Netlify Platform's support for React and the ability to host my website directly through Netlify, allowing me to deploy it online.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Netlify Platform offers, in my experience, are mainly its support for React and the single-click deploy functionality, which helped me deploy my project really fast.
The single-click deploy feature made a significant difference for my project because I didn't want to spend too much time on my deployment process and mainly focused on the actual sensor integration, so it helped me reduce the time dedicated to the website.
While using Netlify Platform, I noticed that the API integration part was very easy, and I could work with my AWS and other APIs pretty fast.
Netlify Platform saved me a significant amount of time; manual deployment would have taken me around three to four hours, but Netlify Platform helped me do it in around twenty minutes.
As I mentioned earlier, I was able to save two to three hours on my project, which allowed me to focus on my main project instead of deployment and the website, plus a lot of integration work from GitHub was done pretty fast, saving me another two to three hours.
What needs improvement?
I think Netlify Platform can be improved by allowing more people to use it, so we can get a lot of good websites deployed on Netlify Platform, and then peer-to-peer, we can enhance our own projects accordingly.
While I think the GitHub integration is pretty good, I would like to see Netlify Platform integrate directly from our computers as well.
For how long have I used the solution?
I only used Netlify Platform for one project, but I would like to try it out more in the future.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In my experience, Netlify Platform is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Netlify Platform's scalability is pretty good, and I haven't had any issues with scalability later.
How are customer service and support?
I didn't have a need to contact customer support, so I don't know how it is.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Vercel and still use it sometimes, which is why I switched to Netlify Platform.
What was our ROI?
Netlify Platform has positively impacted my organization by saving a lot of time for me.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Since I used the free version, I did not have any costs, and pricing and licensing were also free.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Netlify Platform, I didn't really evaluate other options; I just wanted to try working on this project with Netlify Platform, so I chose it.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Netlify Platform is to try it out to make their own projects; the platform has a lot of good features which I haven't explored yet but I'm interested in the future.
I think it is really cool that you are taking reviews from actual users.
I think this is a fantastic interview; I don't think there's anything that should change for the future.
I would rate this experience an eight overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seamless Git-based deployments have boosted my front-end delivery and project velocity
What is our primary use case?
My biggest use case for Netlify Platform is to deploy my front-end website and create a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub itself.
For example, I built my college project, a lost and found website. I created the UI in React, made the repository in GitHub, created a CI/CD pipeline to Netlify Platform, and hosted my project there. I have hosted several other projects as well.
I also hosted a UI for a platform as a service I was building for my personal project, which is a video platform where you can have video calls. For that as well, I used Netlify Platform.
What is most valuable?
I think the best feature of Netlify Platform is how easily I am able to integrate it with GitHub and GitLab, along with how user-friendly it is. You don't really need to specify everything because it has most things built in, requiring you to write nothing more than the start command. It is able to read from the project itself what is needed.
What makes the integration with GitHub and GitLab stand out is that you can simply log in to Netlify account, pair it with your GitHub account, find the project in Netlify itself, select the project, put the root folder if it is not already the root, and then it is done. It will take care of everything and is very easy to use.
I also appreciate Netlify functions. Although I have not used them very much, the serverless capability is really nice.
The best thing Netlify Platform has done for me is that it gives me velocity, taking away all the burden and time-consuming processes so I can move fast. It would be hard to quantify, but any deployment would previously take a few hours, while Netlify Platform takes a few minutes.
What needs improvement?
I think Netlify Platform can be improved if it has the functionality to have a full back-end as well. I love Netlify Platform. I just want one thing: the ability to do everything in the same application. Currently, I have to use Render or something else for the deployment of my back-end, but if it can deploy the back-end as well, I would really appreciate it.
For how long have I used the solution?
In my current field as a full-time professional, I have been working for one and a half years, but I have been working on Netlify Platform and other projects for the last four to five years from my college itself. I have been using Netlify Platform for the last four years.
What other advice do I have?
I deploy Netlify Platform using public cloud. I use AWS as my cloud provider with Netlify Platform. I did not purchase Netlify Platform through the AWS Marketplace. I would rate this product a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)