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Netlify Functions RESTful API Without Express

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:27:52 -0600

What are Netlify Functions?

Netlify Functions provide a simple way to build a serverless API layer for any front-end projects.

These serverless functions are executed atop AWS’s Lambda platform. The rule here is keep it simple… keep it safe. No, wait, keep it simple, and keep it fast.

These functions have a default timeout of 10 seconds. Netlify does support background functions that can run around 15 minutes, but focus here is on the short-lived functions.

Netlify Single Page App 404 Redirect

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:36:15 -0600

tl;dr

Add a netlify.toml file to the root of your project if one doesn’t exist.

Add the following setting to redirect all routes to your single-page-application.

[[redirects]]
from = "/*"
to = "/index.html"
status = 200

The netlify.toml file should now look something like this:

Background

I started using Netlify for a number of side projects and a recent start-up.

As many do, I started using a single-page-applications (SPA) framework to build up the front-end.