Netlify Integrations

[michaeltlombardi]

As a user of Platen, I would like to have some default available integrations for using netlify available as separate modules and to smooth adoption.

Netlify includes several very useful features that we could make more delightful for our users to leverage.

• Build Plugins allow you to do things like integrate accessibility and link checks into your build for production and previews, cache remote data and build resources, etc.

• Graph enables you to hook into GraphQL services more easily, like GitHub and Stripe.

• Functions makes it easier to integrate with numerous APIs and add behavior to a site that requires credentials (which you don't want in your publicly accessible HTML).

• Forms makes it easier to add forms to a site and handles everything for you.

• Identity enables you to add authentication to your site, which can be used for all sorts of things.

  Note
  To use this feature for controlling page access costs $99/month. Given the audience is mostly indie game devs, we shouldn't advise this. Worth addressing separately.

Providing theme-aware support and enhancement for these items, plus documenting them and suggested use cases for digital editions of tabletop games, would enhance the DevX and UX for site maintainers and end users alike.

Some of these features may be necessary for other integrations, like Snipcart, which require authentication.