Netlify’s Tech Unification After Stackbit Acquisition

Customer Overview

Netlify, a leader in the composable web, supports millions of developers and thousands of enterprises by managing modern web app infrastructure. With 100+ engineers, they keep their stack modern to ship features quickly as their codebase grows.

The Challenge

Netlify had tried upgrading React and React Router to improve developer experience, but the efforts were delayed due to competing priorities and the complexity involved. After acquiring Stackbit, merging codebases became essential, requiring Netlify to match Stackbit’s modern stack—making the React and React Router upgrades unavoidable.

Our Solution

After evaluating several options, Netlify chose Codemod for its proven large-scale migration tech—beyond what Meta used—and its open platform aligned with Netlify’s open-source values and strategy.

Codemod—maintainer of Meta’s jscodeshift and ast-grep, and contributor to major frameworks like React, Nuxt.js, pnpm—offered an end-to-end platform for seamless large-scale code changes. Their expertise, shared values, and reliable execution made them the ideal partner to modernize Netlify’s codebase.

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The Partnership and Value Added

The partnership between Netlify and Codemod began with a discovery call to align on Netlify's tech stack and high-level business goals. Codemod’s team mapped out all necessary migrations, prioritized them, and created a comprehensive migration plan. This included outlining the benefits (faster development velocity), conducting a migration readiness analysis (cost and impact), developing an incremental migration strategy, defining roles and responsibilities, ensuring rollback strategies and quality assurance, and offering post-migration support.

By leveraging Netlify's instant rollback and automating half the work with community-driven codemods, Codemod completed the migration twice as fast and at a much lower cost. Netlify avoided hiring overhead, and their top engineers stayed focused on building new features—boosting productivity and satisfaction.

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