...and since branch deploys all have the same performance characteristics of your production branch, you can even use branches as the source of different user experiences in A/B or multi-variant testing.
https://url.netlify.com/S18l3LDVu
If you have a custom domain, you can use your branch name as a subdomain
https://url.netlify.com/HkmY9UPNO
https://url.netlify.com/HkmY9UPNO
Branch Deploys are how @Netlify delivers multiple environments.
For example, to create a staging environment, you create a branch called "staging" and push it to your repo. Netlify runs your build just like normal, but deploys it to a URL called "http://staging--yoursite.netlify.app"
For example, to create a staging environment, you create a branch called "staging" and push it to your repo. Netlify runs your build just like normal, but deploys it to a URL called "http://staging--yoursite.netlify.app"
...also this allows the hosting strategies of the sites to be normalised. The important practices and workflows for hosting such things can be common, like CDN hosting, edge caching, cache-management, atomic deploys.
What is a CDN?
https://jamstack.org/glossary/cdn/
What is a CDN?
https://jamstack.org/glossary/cdn/
This is one reason I embraced a hosting model with immutable deploys instead of a constant iterative mutation of environments, their config, and their code.
What is an immutable deploy?
https://jamstack.org/glossary/immutable/
What is an immutable deploy?
https://jamstack.org/glossary/immutable/
Thinking about this favourite feature of @Netlify, and a workflow which a Jamstack approach enables.
🧵 Branch deploys ... https://twitter.com/Netlify/status/1374074796296843268
🧵 Branch deploys ... https://twitter.com/Netlify/status/1374074796296843268
@sarah_edo @Netlify Honestly, I thought I had peaked with the choice of emoji on this: https://twitter.com/Netlify/status/1374074790429007885
@sarah_edo @Netlify I’m not saying that tweet was my single greatest professional achievement.
But others might.
But others might.
@justinjunodev @sarah_edo @jlengstorf Conversely, I'm all about the boops.
I feel I might learn a lot under his boopelage
I feel I might learn a lot under his boopelage