Netlify: Create a Netlify account

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Go to netlify.com and click the Sign up link (or just go to https://app.netlify.com/signup).

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You can sign up using the GitHub login.

I think that’s the simplest path.

Click the GitHub button on the page, then login to GitHub:

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Authorize Netlify to access your GitHub data

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Click “Personal” and then “Set up and continue” (you can ignore the questionnaire):

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Now we’re ready to go.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: ▶︎ Create a Netlify account
2: Deploy to Netlify
3: A tutorial to host your Static Site on Netlify
4: Auto trigger deploys on Netlify
5: Netlify Lambda Functions Tutorial
6: How to use environment variables in Netlify functions
7: How to use npm packages in Netlify Functions
8: How to access query parameters in Netlify functions
9: How to test Netlify Functions locally
10: How to use Netlify Edge Functions
11: How to set up "cloud cron jobs" using Netlify Scheduled Functions
12: How I fixed the trailing slash in Netlify rewrites
13: Durable cache on Netlify
14: How to return HTML from a Netlify function
15: How to use ES modules in Netlify functions
16: How to trigger a Netlify-Vercel-Cloudflare Pages redeploy using a link