Edge Functions Guides

Learn how to tell AI bots not to crawl some or all of your website's data by adding a robots.txt file. And to cover those pesky bots that don't respect the robot rules, use a Netlify Edge Function to target user agent strings.

Build an AI generator that creates webpages in the style of GeoCities with the help of Langbase and OpenAI.

Find out how to serve a Hydrogen e-commerce site from the edge on Netlify.

Controlling what content in your site is available to AI bots to crawl and harvest

Netlify’s Platform Primitives and Netlify Edge Functions make Partial Prerendering simple to implement in plain static HTML without any framework or even build system.

Access to serverless invocation and performance metrics help to protect your site performance. See how Function Metrics give the data to help you build better.

Learn how Netlify's granular cache controls, and planning your technical architecture, can make edge rendering very fast even when your data is not at the edge.

Use the Netlify SDK to create an integration that can inject an edge function to sites to perform logic on their incoming requests, allowing you to block content based on the location of your site visitors as an example.