Summary
According to a post on X by @Netlify, Netlify Server is now in free early access and gives apps a long-running backend for AI agents, WebSockets, multiplayer games and chat apps. It deploys with the rest of a Netlify project and accepts either a plain request handler or an existing Express, Hono or Fastify app. The post also says every Deploy Preview runs its own backend with its own database branch.
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What happened
Netlify Server, now in free early access, gives apps a long-running backend for AI agents, WebSockets, multiplayer games and chat apps. It deploys with the rest of a Netlify project, accepts a plain request handler or an existing Express, Hono or Fastify app, and every Deploy Preview runs its own backend with its...
Why it matters
Developers building AI agents, real-time apps or chat features on Netlify could run long-lived backend code inside the same project as their frontend. Teams with existing Express, Hono or Fastify code may be able to reuse it rather than rewrite it, and each preview gets its own backend and database branch for testing. The excerpt does not cover pricing or when early access ends, so those details are worth checking next.
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