Welcome to Netlify

Netlify builds, deploys and hosts your front end.

Quickstart

Deploying a new site with Netlify is so simple it fits in a tweet:

npm install netlify-cli -g
cd my-site-folder
netlify deploy

This is all you need to deploy a static site folder, but Netlify can do much more for you.

Continuous Deployment

For anything larger than a one page landing, you really should be using a static site generator or a front-end build tool like grunt or gulp.

If you’re using any of those, Netlify can make the process of collaborating and deploying much smoother.

Netlify lets you link a Github repository to a site. Each time you push to Github, Netlify runs a build with your tool of choice and deploys the result to our powerful CDN.

Getting Started

Netlify can be used both from our web UI at app.netlify.com or by using our command line tools.

To start with the web UI, simply head to app.netlify.com and sign in.

To start by manually deploying a folder with a static site to Netlify, make sure you have node js installed and then follow these steps:

npm install netlify-cli -g
cd ~/my-static-website
netlify deploy

Netlify’s Docs

This site is a great example of a project built on Netlify.

All of our documentation (this whole site in fact) is in a Github repository.

Whenever we push to Github or accept a pull request, Netlify will do a clean build of the site with Jekyll and deploy the result.