Building a seasonal veg app with Eleventy. Part 3 - Deploy with Netlify
The decision
Now that the basics of the app is done, its time to deploy. I felt like I had 3 choices: Github pages, Netlify or Vercel. All offer free services and all are very easy to use, and of course all compatible with my Github repository. I've hosted with Github pages and Vercel in the past, and I just left a project where we were using Netlify. Because I wasn't the one who did the setup in the project with Netlify, I thought now was a good time to try it myself. So, I decided to go with Netlify.
...5 minutes and some clicks later, it was deployed successfully. And my build+deploy process is done :)
Plugins
I knew beforehand about their plugins which you can easily attach to your builds as an extra step, and I knew about their Lighthouse plugin which would allow me to keep track of my Lighthouse metrics with every build (important if i want to reach for the top of that speed leaderboard). It was a bit annoying that only after installing it did it warn me that is was a feature for Pro plans only. Oh well. I guess i'll run Lighthouse manually.