All of our Glitch Node.js starter projects use the efficient and flexible server framework Fastify. The Fastify team recently released a major update–version 4 includes a number of improvements, but you will need to make a few changes to any existing remixes you created on Glitch before we updated the starters to use it. Read on to learn more!

You can read all about the changes in Fastify 4 in the announcement blog post–here are a few highlights:

Callback and promise confusion has been reduced by requiring calls to reply to be part of a return statement.

Error handling is now encapsulated to improve consistency.

Type providers are now included, allowing your apps to infer types from JSON Schema.

The listen signature has been simplified, with a view to improved contributor maintenance experience.

The minimum Node version now supported is 14.

Kudos to the Fastify maintainers and community for consistently developing a framework that affords Glitch Node.js apps such great performance!

When you edit a Node.js app in Glitch, you can manage your npm dependencies in the package.json file using the dropdown list that shows you any packages that have updates available. If you have a remix of Hello Node, Hello SQLite, or the blank / minimal versions of either of these starter projects, you’ll see the Fastify 4 update in the dropdown list–but you’ll need to make a few additional changes to get your app working with the new version.

Fastify 4 requires at least Node version 14, and there are some packages the starters use that have been deprecated and replaced–there are also a couple of minor server syntax changes.

In your project, open the Logs so that you see the progress unfold. Don’t worry when you see the little sweary face in your app Status at the bottom of the Glitch editor as you carry out the updates–it’s all part of the fun and they’ll turn happy again by the time you’re done!

Check out the help doc for detailed steps, here’s the TLDR; on what you’ll need to change:

Update the node version in your package JSON to 14

Remove any of the deprecated packages: fastify-static, fastify-formbody, point-of-view

Add any of these that you still plan on using with their replacements: @fastify/static, @fastify/view, @fastify/formbody

Update references to these in your server JS code

Update your server JS code listen function to pass the host and port values inside an object, like this: fastify.listen({port:process.env.PORT, host:'0.0.0.0'}...

Include calls to reply in a return statement

Give Glitch a little time to update and rebuild your project between steps and hopefully it’ll work the way you expect! If you have any issues take a look in the Logs, and turn on detailed logging in your server JS file if necessary. 

Check out the updated starters to see the new syntax in action:

Are you building anything new with the updated Fastify capabilities? Share it on the community forum!

Those two beautiful cheetah photographs at the top of the post were taken and shared with the commons by William Warby and James Temple 🐆

Smarter starters and better error handling, thanks to Fastify 4!

For our latest newsletter, I interviewed head of product, Jesse von Doom, who not only made this beautiful collection of colors in text happen, but he also created this well-commented demo on Glitch that walks you step by step through making a gradient header with different colored links. 

I asked him a few questions about the process, but we couldn’t fit it all into the newsletter, so please enjoy our newest series on the blog: This Was Too Big to Fit in Our Newsletter.

Color is a great tool for communicating a lot of nuance in any design. If pictures are worth a thousand words color has to be worth a few hundred at least. At Glitch we work with a wide, bright palette. We’re really intentional about the meaning behind it. We want the first impression of Glitch to be welcoming, optimistic, and lightweight. 

If you look at the Glitch homepage you’ll notice colors chosen for the header are the two main colors in the Glitch logo. On the page the logo itself is tiny, so the header is a call-back while the colors chosen for the links themselves are some of the brightest in our palette. So the idea was to be big and bold in how we invite people to build with Glitch, but to use color to reinforce that our community is inclusive, friendly, playful, and helpful.

(All of this is really valid, but also I just really love rainbows.)

How did you make having two headers shown as one accessible?

This part was super important — we’re technically using two headers to make the effect work. One with the main gradient text, and another mostly-invisible header for the links. It’d be a really bad experience for people using screen readers if the header were read twice, so we hide the header without links from screen readers using the `aria-hidden` attribute. 

What was the most challenging part of making it all work?

Getting two slightly different bits of text to wrap identically at all responsive screen sizes is a lot of attention to detail. So it meant explicitly setting a lot more CSS properties than usual, and adding a few extra spans to make sure each header matches the other’s footprint exactly. And with a header it’s also worth paying attention to a few other typographic bits like wrapping commas with links, etc. 

Shouts out to Jesse for making that magic happen. And because his demo is on Glitch, you can poke around the code and remix it for yourself! If you make a project with rainbows, text or otherwise, let us know by tweeting @glitch or send us an email at community@glitch.com. 🌈

This Was Too Big to Fit in Our Newsletter: How We Got Rainbows on the Homepage

What gives something the quality of being dreamy? Maybe you picture being in a through the looking glass type of pastel and foggy environment similar to somewhere real, but not quite right. Maybe you’re flying through space and time with superhuman abilities. Or maybe, you’re somewhere relaxing, with no one calling, texting, or asking you to be anything to anyone at all. That’s the thing about dreams — they’re different for everyone. Yet, somehow the Glitch community managed to make May a very dreamy month with both new and existing projects that made us stop to take some much needed time away from our collective realities. 

While you were dreaming, here are some very real and cool things that happened with Glitch. First, we joined Fastly! It’s a very exciting opportunity for both the product and the Glitch community and we can’t wait to tell you more about the road ahead. We also changed up the login process for those of you who joined Glitch with a Facebook account. No worries! Your account won’t change, you just have to update it. Read the full announcement, after you’ve seen all the very rad things created in May. 😏 

~draw-your-world by @enauman is a really inspiring project where p5.js is used to draw different elements from photos of the real world!

~strangely comes across the feed occasionally as @rowan-m updates it. Very satisfying :)

~lilcode-3dspace by @cafeinternet is a cool, chaotic 3D environment

~windowpane by @leannefthuang is an “examination of the self through art historical cultural ties, to better understand myself and myself as part of the Asian American diaspora.”

~conwaygameoflife-twitter-embed by @johuber is the iconic zero-player game, made to be embedded in a tweet!

~dream-geography by @niall84571 is a dreamy record of the places they’ve visited in their dreams.

thatkatharine.glitch.me - They learned how to do rounded corners in CSS for this, so that’s pretty awesome. 

m4g3.glitch.me is a Glitch in Bio with a cool, spacey goth theme.

~betterbandpod by @brandenpalomo is a Glitch in Bio for a Pearl Jam podcast!

~ridiculous-silly-header is @jessevondoom’s step-by-step process demo of the rainbow text on the Glitch homepage!

~heropetz by @jojo080889 is a 90s style Petz fan site. It looks so good!

~a11y-bingo by @ollicle and @alex.day is an accessibility (a11y) bingo card

We’ve shared this before, but it’s making the rounds again: ~phd-template by @aandreev0 is a really great template for generating welcome letters to (PhD) students and setting lab expectations.

~birds-eye-cards is another great project from the folks at @bplmaps that presents a visual pattern system of aerial images.

We love this lil character, ~invisibleq by @luarnmama

~carfig by @JacobWaites is an adorable, vibrant scene for a car color chooser made in Spline! Spline even gave it some praise!

And for the bike riders, the folks at Needle created ~needle-bike to demonstrate realtime exploration of 3D models and mock-ups – built in Unity and published on Glitch!

~like-like by @elankiderman is a really amazing tool for wandering through Twitter. Our friend Tom calls it “a beautiful meditation.”

~citibikes by @LouisMinsky helps you find Citibike locations with ebikes. Follow @citibikestats on Twitter if you’re an NYC local and want to know the latest.

~scoreboard-ultimate by @philiprenich is a minimal, sweet scoreboard tracker

~yellow-somber-bobolink by @catherineomega was built to help someone who has lost their voice save themselves some words.

~yunai-movenet by @NadiaPiet is a Master thesis project using machine learning to detect yoga poses!

~riverriverriver by @mipmckeever is a no-code version of their tool for storing, searching and displaying news wires.

~pathway-generator by @carolynlimadeo is a very sweet learning pathway generator, and you can remix it to add your own tools for more personal speculative futures!

Looks like ~spicy-snowy-starfish was the winner of the #100devs coding competition! (Credits are in app) 🍕

~goodbye-monster by @beckett is a browser-based pet sim made as a class project so it may not be openly accessible but you can see screenshots in this tweet.

~your-first-tech-job by @aTylerRobertson is a “persistently online multiplayer game of Espionage.”

We love this: ~choose-budget-dinner by @snotskie is an app that helps you and others you meal plan with decide on dinners together.

From soothing stories about dreams, to seeing big cities from a bird's eye view, or dreaming about not having to decide what’s for dinner, we’re a big fan of what you all imagine and create with Glitch!  As always, if you have Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~of-touch by @melaniehoff and @amyfang123 and we highly recommend you click and drag around this beautiful interactive poem!

What gives something the quality of being dreamy? Maybe you picture being in a through the looking glass type of pastel and foggy environment similar to somewhere real, but not quite right.

Last month on Glitch, the May 2022 edition

The Glitch community will no longer be able to use a Facebook account to log in to Glitch. If you created your Glitch account with Facebook, don’t fret, you will still be able to log in with the email address associated with your Facebook account. And if you don’t use Facebook, you don’t have to do anything!

Even better, you can use the handy Magic Link feature to update your Account Settings and change your password. 

The Glitch community has shown an overwhelming preference for other login services. This change helps us simplify the Glitch experience and more importantly, matches what our community has shared about their expectations for the platforms they trust. Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment where creators feel empowered to experiment and share is a responsibility we take seriously. 

Your trust is essential to us so we wanted to be clear about this change, and make sure you know you’ll always have access to your projects no matter how you log in.

Have features you’d like to see in Glitch? Let us know by sharing on the community forum.

The Glitch community will no longer be able to use a Facebook account to log in to Glitch.

A little poke: Still using Facebook login?

We have some huge, exciting news for Glitch and the entire Glitch community: Today, Glitch is becoming part of Fastly! We’re joining forces with the Fastly team to bring the creative power of Glitch to even more people, and to help make the internet better by making it easier for everyone to create.

First, for our loyal community of Glitch users who’ve been with us for years: you’re good, we got you. Nothing changes about your apps or your Glitch account with this news, and the changes you’ll see in the future will be about making Glitch better and even more fun and rewarding to use going forward.

If you’re new to Glitch, you should know what we’re about — Glitch is a friendly community where millions of people come together to create, share and remix web apps for work, play and everything in between. 

So, why are we joining forces with Fastly? There are a couple of great reasons. It starts with having more support and resources to keep improving Glitch. We’re hiring for incredible people to come help with this work, starting today with engineering roles on the Developer Relations team, and watch for Glitch-focused support, community and engineering roles coming soon, too. And they’ll be in good company — every single member of the Glitch team is coming along to our new home at Fastly, to continue making the site and the community with the same spirit and care that they’ve shown over the last 5+ years.

Over time, we’ll be tapping into Fastly’s incredible technologies to make it easier than ever to make fast, secure, expressive apps. Today, Fastly is best known for delivering content on the web incredibly quickly (thus the name!) and securely. But we’re also super excited about their edge platform, which will let people build new kinds of apps. We’ll talk more about that once we’ve got some specific stuff to show you, but if you can imagine the cool stuff you’d build with that power, then you’ve probably got a good sense of where we’re headed.

Most fundamentally, we know that Fastly’s whole team really understands what makes Glitch special, and has believed from day one in empowering more people to make a better internet. Glitch will be one of the most prominent parts of a broader effort to give all developers, regardless of their background or level of experience, the power to build sites and apps that are second to none. A lot of the time, when a little company becomes part of a big company, we worry about losing the things that made the little company (and its not-so-little community) really work. In this case, we’re enthusiastic and optimistic about being able to tap into the resources of a much larger and more global company to help Glitch reach the full potential that we’ve always hoped it would. After teaming up with the Fastly team last year on a partnership to give Glitch users access to Fastly’s new edge platform, we realized that we were thinking in very similar ways about how to help the most people create the most cool things possible, and that set the course for the announcement that we’re excited to make today!

We’ll share more details and updates as we go along, but for now, a great way to get a taste of what’s to come is to try out this starter app and make your own.

An Exciting Leap Forward for Glitch

Sometimes it feels like time is going by so fast, but as 2022 hops on from month to month we find that taking time out to reflect on the things that happen each month helps to demonstrate just how much is accomplished by the Glitch community each and every day. Recognizing your hard work, the kindness that you put out into the world, and the sense of wonder created by your imaginative projects is a constant reminder of how much curiosity and joy exists and the potential to discover even more. 

To complement that work, we recently gave the glitch.com homepage a long look and decided to jazz things up a little. We hope you enjoy the recent update. And, in case you missed it, our director of community, Jenn Schiffer recently appeared in a webinar with friends from Fastly and EdgeMesh to discuss Democratizing the Edge where many Glitch community shoutouts happened. Let’s continue the celebration of your efforts with April’s roundup of awesome projects, playlists, and more!

True,~park by@oa495 is an oldie but came up in a discussion about accessibility and drag-and-drop implementations. It’s such a neat example, we had to share!

~speakgame by @r0 is a game where you guess which language has the most native speakers

~emojia by @LingDong- is an online multiplayer world made ~~entirely~~ of emojis.

~whack-a-paw by @NatoshiBanamoto is a cute lil whack-a-mole game

To celebrate 9000 followers on Twitter, @adarosecannon made ~scouter!

~needle-bike is a WebXR bike configuration app that @marwie built and shared in our forum

~market-forces by @OkayHughes is a very visually satisfying art project, just watch.

~digitiser-cartoon-strip-generator is an old cartoon strip generator that @doug brought back from the Wayback Machine and put onto Glitch so it can live again!

~nails by @CharStiles allows you to click and drag in the embed for an odd surprise

~a-small-memorial by @toddwords is a beautiful, interactive memorial, part of this new online journal, The HTML Review

~dapper-lofty-elk by @ladylarisa123 is an awesome looking coded poem from an SFPC student

~aromatic-paint-tire by @ariaandsam excuse generator, anyway I would’ve loved to have gone out tonight but I’m currently looking for my wallet.

~bill-split-app is a sweet bill-splitting utility by @cool-peaches, who replied to the latest Glitch newsletter to share it!

YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR (by @OverlappingElvis lol)

~phone-from-dilemma by@aTylerRobertson is a fully-featured replica of Kelly Rowland's spreadsheet phone in the music video for Dilemma.

~lassoism is a Ted Lasso-ism generator by @danfishgold and @lexipedia.shir. That’s right, Betty White.

~dot-cats is like Dwarf Fortress but with cats by @bengarvey and @sashatgarvey

Check out these cool cats dropping in ~overly-particular by @rowan-m

~kyloscosplaycarousel by arianna1098765 is the greatest Star Wars fansite created.

Even though we love cats, ~knockitoverfinal by@haue807 is an annoying-cat simulator

~glib-shorthaired-foxglove by @Reddlake is a simple keyboard drum kit

~bluez by @RonakChovatiya is a cool audio visualizer

~build-excellent-websites by@hankchizljaw is a guide to help you...build excellent websites!

@giulia.laco's CSS playlist includes a few apps to aid in teaching CSS concepts

…and for the JS crowd...@dublinacademy's JavaScript Help playlist shows some simple JavaScript concepts

@robloxrules has a playlist with a couple of instrument apps!

We love hearing what you love about Glitch, and all of the unique ways the community experiences Glitch, or how it empowers them to create. Here is a recent shout-out. 

The app being discussed here is ~only-the-questions created by Clive Thompson and we couldn’t agree more! Read Clive’s post on the motivation behind building this project.

The biggest thanks, of course, goes out to you—the Glitch community for continuing to make the web and the world, a fun and special and interesting place to be. As always, if you have Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~double-pendulum-grid by @d.carverwilliams and was posted in the oddlysatisfying subreddit. It definitely earns that placement.

Sometimes it feels like time is going by so fast, but as 2022 hops on from month to month we find that taking time out to reflect on the things that happen each month helps to demonstrate just how much is accomplished by the Glitch community each and every day.

Last month on Glitch, the April 2022 edition

They say March “comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.” But the Glitch community is worldwide and knows no seasons, so we say March 2022 came in like a blobby duderino and went out like non-stop K-pop Heardle clones. Many K-pop Heardle clones. We truly love to see it! 

In case you missed it, we’re still signing folks up for Fastly’s Compute@Edge on Glitch beta if you want to give that a try. Otherwise please enjoy some of these standout projects from the Glitch community, and most importantly keep creating and keep sharing!

~pudim by @leonardoazzi is a 3D image of Pudim, a traditional Brazilian pudding 😋

~l-2d by @LingDong- is a drawing program for …drawing!

~relative-fiction by @filipnest uses the Foursquare API and OpenWeatherMap for creating dynamic stories.

This calculator by @anvesh.dunna looks so real!

~classic-ambitious-banon by @AlisonStevens is a really cool dance animation simulator!

~urjournal by@miamylva is an audio collection of people reading their journal.

~wheel-of-side-projects by@lmorchard is a spinning wheel to help decide on a prospective side project.

One from the Glitch forum Gallery is ~theglitchpwa by @tiagorangel, an unofficial PWA starter.

~jpeg-sandbox by @OmarSamehShehata lets you “interactively edit individual DCT blocks in any JPEG image in the browser”

~billowy-neighborly-sauce is a Pomodoro timer with a text area to write your code for that session. It was a 100devs mini hackathon project with several collaborators!

~serifu-sketchpad by @pts is a Serifu comic script markup editor.

~url-hosted-bookmarklet by @PatrickWeaver is a handy tool where you can save a bookmarklet code in a shareable URL!

~ai-training by @denzelsedwards connects the micro:bit to Teachable Machine.

~lightspeed-media by @avigoldman is a bookmarklet that will speed up video on webpages, and it works on Twitter!

~horo-scopes by @larainnepasion helps you learn about JavaScript...scopes

~scattatle by @darzhz is a particle simulator written with p5.js. Hitting "gravity" is very satisfying!

~sussyclicker by@PhpenixPythonCode is an Among Us clicker game 🧀

~owenwilsonwowmachine by@arianna1098765, creator of the previously featured Ryan Reynold’s hair color selector.

~only-exclamations by @samplereality is a remix of ~only-the-questions - guess which punctuation it isolates...

~livecodera by @flordefuego + @jcbcb is an awesome event page for a Women’s Day event.

~bpm-timer by @Pomax is a really cool and visual bpm timer!

~verbose-reflective-recorder by@decoded-cipher is a Morse code converter, with audio player too.

~worst-wordle by @MarkGamed is Wordle but with a slider. Mark is right, this may actually be the Worst Wordle!

~lingdle by @r0 is a Wordle clone for guessing the language based on given text

We’re collecting all of the WILDLY popular K-pop heardle clones here. 

It all started with ~heardle-kpop by@tanhuynh226 which is one of the most widely shared Glitch apps so far this year!

If you’re looking for generative art, @EricEisaman has a few here 🖼.

@DaniGatunes put together this really cool playlist of their Three.js work!

Use basic concepts in A-frame to create VR environments using these A-frame exercises.

Check out this playlist of p5.js projection mapping examples!

Hopefully, something here made you wonder, smile, chuckle, or sparked a new idea. ✨ We can’t wait to see what you do next! As always, if you have Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup!

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~under-water-animal-sounds, an aquatic soundboard created by several #100devs students. So that’s what seahorses sound like. 🤔

They say March “comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.” But the Glitch community is worldwide and knows no seasons, so we say March 2022 came in like a blobby duderino and went out like non-stop K-pop Heardle clones.

Last month on Glitch, the March 2022 edition

Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of the Last month on Glitch recap, written to you from the—gasp!—third month of 2022. Although it shouldn’t actually be shocking when February goes by so fast, it’s the shortest month of the year. But here we are, with another month’s worth of creative, intriguing, and delightful developments made by you, the Glitch community! 

Before we get to that, we need to quickly shout out some of the things we think could be useful to you in your next project. Last month, we teamed up with DigitalOcean to add a “deploy to DO” button to the Glitch editor. Also, we’re getting ready to announce an update for those of you who signed up for Fastly’s Compute@Edge on Glitch beta. Not on the list yet? There’s still time to sign up! 

~shimmering-planet-metacarpal by @kenneth.kufluk is a voice-activated multiplication quiz

𝓌ℯ 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓈𝒻ℴ𝓇𝓂ℯ𝓇, a.k.a. ~text-transformer by @pts

~jupyter-lite by @EricEisaman brings Jupyter Lite into Glitch

~speech-paragraph by @tomayac is a demo of Danny Moerkerke’s speech-paragraph custom element that “extends the native paragraph HTML element <p> and enables it to read its text out loud using Web SpeechSynthesis.”

~next-slide-please by @aTylerRobertson is a presenter-controlled slide app!

~epb by @emmettbaber is a cool link-in-bio app using A-Frame.

~digital-pottery by @high_byte is an app we’ve shared before, but it came up again on Twitter!

~multiuser-blocks by @pschroen is a really cool 3D multi-user “room” where you can throw around 3d objects.

And if you’re new to A-Frame, read more at glitch.com/webxr. Also, we love these A-Frame and WebXR playlists from @fcor, so be sure to check them out!

~rainbowfishdraw by @bscott711 is a remix of ~fishdraw but with colors and movement

~i-love-dotdotdot by @loganwilliams is a generative poem that pulls live content from Twitter (so beware of NSFW content! ☠️)

~efficacious-sudden-smoke by @jetsuko is a very clever Street Fighter arcade sim using Youtube I-Frames.

~a-slaty-in-a-gullstack by @blprnt lets you “live the experience of looking for one gull among thousands of nearly identical gulls in your browser!”

~neighborly-like-feels by @joshi22amit is a two-player dice rolling game

~rrhaircolorselector by @arianna1098765 lets you choose different hair colors for Ryan Reynolds lol

~azure-sunny-elbow by @evanbindz, named GlitchWiki, is a recreation of MediaWiki on Glitch!

~townscaper-dataviz by @pomeranian99 lets you turn data into pretty towns!

~truth-exuberant-wave by @krystenchenoweth is a collection of pomodoro sessions on Youtube. 

~bad-bridges by @ohheyitsrainy was created to map out the bridges of Pittsburgh and how structurally sound (or not) they are. You can learn more and hear from its creator in this article from Pittsburgh CityPaper about it!

~liars-wordle by @Radcliffe is Wordle on Hardcore Mode. Give them some love on the forum if you play and enjoy it!

It’s a Wordle World now, friends and we’re just living in it. Check out our playlist of Wordle clones, after you take a look at a few of our faves from this month. 

Speaking of faves, ~favle by @aTylerRobertson is Wordle in the favicon!

~trainle by @WheresAlice for UK train codes

~broadcastle by @johntcolucci is for the local news words

~worlde-word-game by @mapsmania uses countries and cities

~equinox-fast-balmoral by @AlisonStevens has you guess chord progressions!

Fun fact, 20+ of the links in this Wordles of the world are Glitch apps!

~braginator by @StuartHoughton85754 is an emoji wordle brag generator

~wordle-art by @pau-tomas lets you draw your own wordle brag!

~wordleshares by @thisismattmiller shows a distribution of wordle shares (We’ve been calling them brags, respectfully and lovingly).

~ringle by@AlisonStevens is a changeringing version of Wordle. We really admire Alison’s ability to connect such an old, “non-technical” activity to her app development.

~rewordle by @chigozienri lets you go back in Wordle time, if you dare. 

So there you have it, another month of projects that make folks think, laugh, or smile; keep up the good work, friends! As always, if you have Glitch projects or playlists you built or love and want us to feature, either share them on the forum, tweet them to us @glitch or email community@glitch.com—we’d love to see your work in our next roundup! ✨

The project featured in this post’s header image is ~draggy-box by @christianp which looks like a layout demo but is actually a really elegantly made game! They also made https://glitch.com/~rectangle-pals, a cool screensaver-like app. 

Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of the Last month on Glitch recap, written to you from the—gasp!—third month of 2022.

Last month on Glitch, the February 2022 edition

Right at the beginning of 2022, we launched an all-new editor for Glitch, with the promise of lots of improvements to come. So we’re excited to talk about how Fastly is powering some of the coolest new features.

If you don’t know Fastly, they’re a super popular, super powerful platform for delivering sites and apps more quickly, reliably and securely. So we started with what Fastly is best known for — their content delivery network, or CDN. Now, when you upload assets in the all-new Glitch editor, they’re automatically delivered by Fastly’s super-fast CDN, and you don’t have to do any configuration or additional deploy process. (It even works great with assets like 3D objects, which are newly supported in the Glitch editor!)

But what’s even more exciting is the possibilities this opens up for the future. Fastly has a really clever new edge platform called Compute@Edge that is lightning fast and will let you build smarter, more dynamic sites more easily than ever. We’re gearing up for being able to publish your Glitch projects to Fastly — including the long-awaited desire to have separate dev and production versions of your app, with deploy as simple as a click. When it all comes together you'll be able to publish lightning-fast static sites and Compute@Edge will let you build more sophisticated Glitch apps that scale infinitely — with 100x faster code execution startup times than other serverless solutions!

You can try out the fast new assets in the Glitch editor today, and then sign up to join the waiting list for the exciting beta preview to come!

We’re building an all new integration with Fastly's Compute@Edge that lets you build dynamic sites without the overhead of managing a server and lets you build more sophisticated Glitch sites that scale infinitely – we're talking 100x faster code execution startup times than other serverless solutions!

Taking your apps to the Edge: Fastly x Glitch

He also serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Data & Society Research Institute, and was formerly a contributing editor of WIRED. He’s been blogging since 1999 and won’t stop telling people about that one time he was on the Desus and Mero late-night show.

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