Company
Date Published
Author
Sashko Stubailo
Word count
1568
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Sashko Stubailo shares his experience deploying a full-stack Apollo app with Netlify, a platform that makes it easy to integrate data from any backend into a React app. The author uses Netlify Functions, a new way to deploy server-side code to AWS Lambda alongside the frontend, and sets up an "Hello world" API and frontend for the Apollo app on Netlify. He then adds Apollo Client to the React frontend and deploys the entire project to Netlify, which automatically scales up without requiring any special configuration. The author highlights Netlify's killer feature, deploy previews, which allows developers to see a preview of their application deployed for every single PR on their repository, making it easy to check that everything worked correctly in the production environment.