Tools

Know what's in the toolbox

What each tool is, how it's licensed, and when a dev would actually reach for it.

Hosting & content platforms

Where sites get deployed and published: frontend clouds, edge platforms, and the CMS behind content-heavy sites.

Vercel

Frontend cloud platform

Managed framework hosting with Git-connected branch previews and production deployments. Server code runs in Functions with runtime, region, memory, and duration settings; static assets use its delivery network.

Cloudflare Workers

Freemium

Edge compute and static hosting

Runs application code alongside Static Assets, with bindings to Cloudflare services. Workers provides Web APIs and a subset of Node APIs; framework integrations must target its runtime.

Netlify

Freemium

Web hosting platform

Git-based hosting with deploy previews, serverless and edge functions, forms, and a global CDN. A long-standing home for static and Jamstack sites.