Netlify magic helped to migrate a rails app to a JAM stack, saving us the monthly cost of a digital ocean droplet as well.

The project

A simple landing page website with a contact form

The old

• Rails backend
• Bootstrap, CSS, JS libraries
• Controller for posting contact form
• Mailer to mail out response to in charge

The upgrade

• Copied the styles, js and fonts out into a js project
• Copied the html out
• Used a gulp framework for minifying code, hot reload, copying src files into public
• Used Netlify Forms for the contact form
  • Added netlify attribute to form

The new

• View form responses on netlify portal or use Netlify custom notifications to send email upon form submission
• Spam filtering
  • Added honey-pot field
  • Added hidden field
• JAM Stack - no need for backend nor any cloud function
• ZERO cost