How to Handle Forms on Your Static Site (forestry.io)

10 points by dwalkr 8y ago ↗ HN

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desiredpersona 8y ago ↗

I recently decided to go with Netlify forms as I already deploy all my sites there. Great post DJ

ncphillips 8y ago ↗

How has that experience been so far?

desiredpersona 8y ago ↗

Netlify forms work great.

I was up and running within 5 minutes. The hardest part was styling the form.

By using Forestry CMS with Jekyll and hosting the site on Netlify, I have eliminated the need for server side code.

joeblow9999 8y ago ↗

By definition, if you are handling form submission, your site is NOT static. Many ways to implement that functionality including offloading it to a third party but... your site is not static. It is processing form inputs

edac2 8y ago ↗

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Wufoo forms. You can embed forms into your static site using JavaScript. I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s great.