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Re:Netlify Dev by mbesto on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:42PM (#19617730)
AFAIK Github.io does nothing for the build process...it just hosts static files, which means you need to build them somewhere first (locally first).
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Re:Netlify Dev by beat on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:24PM (#19618100)
Github.io can build jeckyll for you, iirc. Netlify does the same thing, with more features.

One Netlify feature I like is that if you host a domain with them, you can deploy branches to subdomains via git naming. This is good way to set up dev/test/prod environments with very little hassle.

Something I see in a lot of threads like this is "What's so special about that? I can do all that stuff myself while self-hosting!" Yeah, but should you? Setting all this stuff up is a bunch of schlep that has no productive value, and I'm quite happy to outsource it to someone who makes it easy and obvious.

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Re:Netlify Dev by mattkevan on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:23PM (#19618089)
It does run builds if you’re using Jekyll, though you’re restricted to a narrow set of whitelisted plugins.

There’s no such limitation with Netlify.

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Re:Netlify Dev by realityking on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:36PM (#19618202)
It does have built-in support for Jekyll: https://help.github.com/en/articles/using-jekyll-as-a-static...
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