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Netlify Platform Primitives are framework-agnostic runtime features of our platform. They are used in our framework adapters to offer consistent functionality and freedom regardless of your chosen framework.

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  • Follow our step-by-step tutorial
  • Explore solutions for specific use cases with our Developer Guides
  • Jump into a working example with our Astro site template

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Build with primitives to create custom runtime features on our edge network. For example, use primitives to give your site:

  • Faster site performance through Advanced Caching
  • Simplified asset management with Blob Storage
  • Automatic optimization of images through Image CDN

Card Three

  • Follow our step-by-step tutorial
  • Explore solutions for specific use cases with our Developer Guides
  • Jump into a working example with our Astro site template

Card Four

Build with primitives to create custom runtime features on our edge network. For example, use primitives to give your site:

  • Faster site performance through Advanced Caching
  • Simplified asset management with Blob Storage

Introduction

Section titled “Introduction”

To get started with your first project on Netlify, we’ll deploy a demo website. Here’s a live example. By the end of this tutorial, you will have completed these steps to help familiarize yourself with Netlify workflows:

  • clone project code from an example repository in GitHub and create a new site in the Netlify UI
  • leverage continuous deployment in Netlify to kick off an automated build process that generates site assets
  • visit your demo project’s URL after Netlify uploads site assets to a content delivery network (CDN) and makes your demo site available
  • make changes to the example code and explore some key Netlify features

This tutorial’s example project uses the Astro frontend framework. If you’re not familiar with it, that’s totally fine. Understanding the framework isn’t necessary to complete this tutorial.

Development environment prerequisites

Section titled “Development environment prerequisites”

Here’s what you’ll need to have set up to follow along with the steps in each section:

  • A code editor like Visual Studio Code.
  • Git installed on your system.
  • An account with a Git provider: GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps. This tutorial includes instructions for GitHub only, but you can use one of the other supported Git providers instead.
  • Node.js 18.14.0 or later installed on your system. Installing Node.js will also install npm.
  • Netlify CLI installed on your system, for testing out Netlify Functions in a local development environment.