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Netlify CLI command reference

There are lots of reasons to avoid Netlify.

https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/739

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I think you're right. I was grasping at straws and found that there is an issue with deploying to netlify. I found somebody raising the issue here: https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/5286

To launch the previewing of the whole demo app including the client side and the server side, Netlify CLI is needed but installing it globally is good enough:

If you love working on the command line, you can also create a new site on Netlify and link up your Git repository using the Netlify CLI.

Projects whose purpose is facilitative generally help people use other technologies, most often proprietary technologies. These may be tools, SDKs, or other utilities. It is useful for them to be open source so that developers can extend or customize them to suit their own purposes. Examples of facilitative projects are ld-find-code-refs and the Netlify CLI.

Note: You might see a red underline under the type import if you're using VS Code. The Edge Function will still execute, but if you'd like to say goodbye to the red line, run ntl recipes vscode in your terminal. This will install a VS Code settings directory and JSON file at the root of your project. Read more about Netlify recipes on the CLI docs.

Make sure to add the access token as an environment variable to Netlify, so you’re not storing a secret in the code. If you’re using the Netlify CLI, you can add new environment variables from the command line — no .env file required! Running the app locally with netlify dev will inject environment variables stored against your Netlify site.

As soon as you’ve used this feature once, you can no longer use that subdomain with the Netlify CLI. We had to move to other prefixes using the Netlify CLI --alias option. The documentation says to “avoid” using the same prefix as branch names, but doesn’t say why... now you know! Here is the GitHub issue about this.

This is my first quick try deploying SvelteKit with the open source software Coolify by Andras Bacsai.

With a serverful approach, you can avoid these drawbacks, and the main challenge lies in selecting the platform that aligns with your requirements. Options may include AWS, Render, DigitalOcean, and others. While VPS is also an option, it's generally not recommended due to the significant setup and maintenance overhead involved (logging, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, etc.). However, you can make your life easier by leveraging tools like Coolify that help managing your VPS.

Heroku and similar providers can simplify the server management issues, but you can use something much better that can combine both cost efficiency and ease of deployment—Coolify:

> VPSs being “easy to manage” is a strong option full of assumptions.

There are definitely many footguns with managing a VPS but I think the threshold to get vaguely competent with a VPS is not really that far off with getting familiar with the average cloud platform - which comes with its own dangers, like the near-total inability to put an upward cap on fees that that person found out with Netlify recently.

Having a $5 VPS and knowing it's never going to cost your more than $5 might balance out a lot of things on the other side for a lot of people.

(And, as a bonus, it comes with the benefit of having a better idea of what is going on on the actual computer which is running your code.)

Platforms like https://coolify.io/ (which I have not tried, but looks interesting) seem to give you some of the abstractions that you get in cloud platforms to save you having to mess with too much low level stuff and become an expert in a billion separate systems.

If you have Debian with automatic updates that does most of the heavy lifting for you. The hardest problem I have is resisting the temptation to just install everything, because the cost to do it is capped at my VPS monthly fee.

So yep, it comes with a lot of assumptions. But so does everything!

https://coolify.io/ might be worth a look

The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!