Showcase Your Netlify Skills with a GitHub README Badge

Use this markdown in your README:

![Netlify](https://img.shields.io/badge/Netlify-00C7B7?style=for-the-badge&logo=netlify&logoColor=white)

The #00C7B7 is Netlify's official teal — a distinct color that immediately communicates frontend/JAMstack deployment context. The netlify logo identifier renders Netlify's recognizable mark from Simple Icons. This teal badge pairs well with React, Next.js, and Gatsby badges in a frontend-focused profile.

Netlify usage ranges from simple static site hosting to sophisticated JAMstack architectures. Differentiate your experience level:

• Basic: Continuous deployment from GitHub, custom domains, HTTPS
• Intermediate: Branch deploys and preview URLs for PR review workflows, environment variables, redirect rules in netlify.toml
• Advanced: Netlify Functions (serverless), Edge Functions, Netlify Identity for auth, Split Testing
• Architecture: JAMstack patterns with headless CMS (Contentful, Sanity), API-first builds

Mentioning that you use Netlify preview URLs in your code review process signals deployment maturity. Engineers who integrate preview deployments into their PR workflow think about collaboration, not just shipping.

Netlify anchors the frontend deployment layer in several stacks:

• JAMstack: Netlify + Next.js/Gatsby + Contentful/Sanity + GraphQL
• React projects: Netlify + React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
• Static sites: Netlify + Hugo/Eleventy/Jekyll + GitHub
• Headless commerce: Netlify + Next.js + Shopify Storefront API

Netlify and Vercel are direct competitors serving similar use cases. If you have experience with both, mention which you prefer and why — demonstrating that you have evaluated the trade-offs (Vercel's Next.js optimization vs. Netlify's broader static site and Forms ecosystem) shows thoughtful platform selection rather than default choices.

Netlify deployment work is done in JavaScript/TypeScript, with configuration in netlify.toml (TOML). Your top languages will reflect your application stack, not the deployment platform itself. The contribution graph reflects development activity; deployments to Netlify trigger automatically from your commits.

For pinned repositories, include projects with a live Netlify deployment URL in the README — this is more compelling than the badge alone. A 'Deploy to Netlify' button in your repository README allows others to instantly fork and deploy your project, which demonstrates generosity and completeness that recruiters and engineers notice.