March 2022 Summaries

You can now export your traffic and functions logs from Netlify to New Relic with Log Drains, a feature available on Netlify's Enterprise plans. Log Drains allow you to send your Netlify log data to third-party destinations for storage, troubleshooting, and alerting beyond what's possible with Netlify alone. By connecting your Netlify site to New Relic with Log Drains, you can unlock advanced monitoring use cases, including near-real-time notifications, user agent analytics, session tracking, granular requests, serverless function invocation information, anomaly detection, and longer log retention for month-over-month comparisons. To get started, you'll need an active New Relic account and a site deployed with Netlify, as well as the INGEST-LICENSE key, which can be found in your New Relic One account. Once set up, you'll be able to find and filter your logs in the New Relic log manager, making it easier to parse your log data and understand changes in site traffic over time, percentage of successful requests, and other metrics. Updates to Netlify Log Drains are planned, including additional destinations for integrations and consideration of log formats required for more monitoring workflows.

Hilding Anders, a leading e-commerce bedding and mattress company, has successfully migrated its website from a monolithic architecture to the Jamstack ecosystem, using Netlify as their cloud development platform. This transformation was necessary to meet the company's new goals of delivering fast user experiences, iterating quickly, and achieving fast time-to-value. The team worked with digital development agency Kruso to implement a headless approach, decoupling frontend presentation layers from backend logic. They selected Uniform Canvas for page orchestration and Tailwind for flexible UI components. Netlify's cloud development platform tied everything together, providing a smooth workflow for developers and marketers alike. As a result, Hilding Anders has seen significant improvements in KPIs, including faster time-to-market, improved scalability, and enhanced security. The company can now quickly spin up new web properties with continuous integration and served from content delivery networks (CDNs), making it easier to adapt to changing consumer demands.

At Netlify, we stand with Ukraine. We are aghast at Russia’s invasion and have ceased doing business with Russia-owned companies. As web leaders, we have a responsibility to stand up against Russia’s current attack on the rules-based world order. While Netlify does not have direct employees in Ukraine, we have team members around the world who are personally and deeply impacted by the senseless violence from Russia. We are supporting our team members impacted in any way we can, including holding a donation matching drive with our team and community to help humanitarian groups support the people being impacted in Ukraine. We will no longer do business with Russian-owned companies, as we feel we must take a stand against the Russian government’s violence on Ukrainian people and censorship of Russian people. We believe that all people, no matter where they are in the world, should have access to the internet. Our vision at Netlify is to build a better web that remains accessible and available, open, independent, and viable for global communication. We are also supporting the work of OONI.org, a global non-profit free software project called the Open Observatory of Network Interference, to ensure a free and open internet.

Netlify is a great platform for running Next.js applications, offering a developer experience that includes various features such as the Netlify CLI, Netlify Forms, Netlify Identity, and Netlify Analytics, which simplify development and release management workflows. The platform also provides tools like build plugins, customizable deployment priorities, and immutable deploys, allowing developers to streamline their workflow and improve site performance. Additionally, Netlify offers a Jamstack-focused approach, providing features such as edge services, A/B testing, and serverless functions, making it an ideal choice for building fast, scalable, and secure websites and applications.

This guide is about how to automatically add form submissions to a Notion database in a Next.js app using Netlify forms. To start, you need to set up your Notion integration and create an internal integration token, then share your desired database with the integration. You'll also need to install the `@notionhq/client` package to make working with the Notion API easier. Then, in your Next.js app, you can create a form using HTML and add it to Netlify, where you can configure the form submission settings. To send the data to Notion, you'll need to set up a serverless function that uses the `@notionhq/client` package to create a new record in the database. You can then deploy your project to Netlify and test the form submissions in your Notion database.

This new Angular template, created by Netlify, is designed to save developers time when deploying an Angular application to the platform. The template includes a bare-bones Angular app, a new repository for that app, and a live app deployed to an edge node near the user's location. The template can be easily used and deployed through various methods, including running a command with the Netlify CLI or checking out the project repository on GitHub. Tara Z. Manicsic, Manager of Developer Experience at Netlify, created this template as a helpful resource for developers looking to speed up their development process.

To deploy a Remix app on Netlify, start by selecting Netlify as the deployment target when creating a new Remix app using `npx create-remix@latest`. Then, configure the `netlify.toml` file with the necessary settings. Next, push the project to your preferred Git provider and log in to your Netlify account via the CLI or UI. Finally, deploy the site by clicking "Deploy site" in the Netlify UI or running commands like `netlify init`, `remix build`, `netlify-deploy --prod` from the CLI. With these steps, you can quickly and easily deploy your Remix app on Netlify.

The new Gatsby Image CDN feature is now available in beta and can significantly reduce build times for large Gatsby sites or those with many images, by offloading image processing to a dedicated image CDN. This allows developers to add responsive, optimized images to their sites in modern formats without slowing down site builds. The feature is currently supported on Netlify and is implemented using Netlify On-Demand Builders, which means the image is processed for the first visitor and then served from an edge cache with no need for further resizing. With this feature, visitors get the most optimized images while site builds become faster, making it a popular approach in web frameworks in 2022.

Netlify is updating its plans to better align features and performance with different web projects, aiming to enhance the platform's capabilities while keeping costs reasonable. The changes, set to take effect in April, include adjustments to deploy permissions, maximum team members for Pro and Business plans, increased bandwidth allocations, and enhanced build minutes. These updates are intended to support growing teams and provide more value for developers and enterprise users.

We're excited to bring you a Next.js template to help you get started with some Netlify features, including Netlify Functions, forms, and redirects. This template provides the groundwork for these features and allows users to easily create a new GitHub repo and Netlify project. Users can also use the Netlify CLI command or clone the repository using GitHub to set up their own project. The team encourages feedback and suggestions for future improvements, inviting users to share their ideas on social media or via email.