Building the web is hard. The web revolves around content, but when building things, we might not have the content yet! To solve this, let’s build a custom image placeholder service with serverless APIs so we can carefully craft our experiences while waiting for our content to be delivered. What is an Image Placeholder Service?...
Images help create visual experiences, but loading that media can slow page loads due to high file sizes. Instead we can take advantage of placeholder images like BlurHashed images to still deliver a great experience while deferring the loading of the full source. We’ll see how we can add custom processing to Cloudinary using BlurHash...
The web is full of awesome APIs that we can use to add feature sto our apps, but often using those APIs includes a long process of registering an app and figuring out authentication so you can simply make a request. With Netlify’s new API Authentication, we can easily enable third party services and instantly...
Netlify makes building and deploying Jamstack apps super easy, but without additional tools, your images are going to get deployed “as is”, leaving lots of potential room for saving precious bytes. Instead, we can use the Cloudinary Netlify Plugin and get automatic optimization and modern formatting to make sure we’re delivering as great and lean...
Automation typically includes purely code-based tasks that don’t even think about a browser, but some tasks need to interact and use the browser as a human would like performing a search on a site. How can we leverage tools that can automate the browser and pack it into a serverless API endpoint to make easily...
WordPress and JavaScript-based frameworks like Next.js and Gatsby make powerful combos, delivering a great CMS editing experience with a fast and performant front end, but if we’re using WordPress headlessly, we don’t automatically have a mechanism to trigger a new deploy. How can we take advantage of web hooks to make sure our websites are...