Edge Functions Guides
Guides, examples, and demonstrations of using the Netlify platform.
Internationalization with Edge Functions & Astro
Learn how to support multiple languages in your Astro app with Netlify Edge functions, Astro middleware, and cookies to track the user's language preference.
Block AI bots from crawling your Netlify site
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.
GeoCities Webpages using Langbase & OpenAI
Build an AI generator that creates webpages in the style of GeoCities with the help of Langbase and OpenAI.
How to deploy a Shopify Hydrogen storefront to Netlify
Find out how to serve a Hydrogen e-commerce site from the edge on Netlify.
Blocking AI bots and controlling crawlers
Controlling what content in your site is available to AI bots to crawl and harvest
Partial Prerendering without a framework
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.
Improve site performance with better serverless insights
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.
How to make edge rendering fast
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.
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