Is the Moovweb XDN a Netlify or Vercel alternative?

XDN Q&A
#1

First, that’s the right comparison. We are a Jamstack platform in the same category—we are an all-in-one platform to develop, deploy, preview, run, monitor, defend, and experiment on websites that use frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt, React, Vue, Angular, Sapper, et al. So you get the simple, powerful developer workflow you’re accustomed to with Netlify or Vercel.

The Moovweb XDN is different given it was built from the ground up for large, dynamic websites such as eCommerce.

Try it for yourself https://developer.moovweb.com/ and see an examples of a sub-second dynamic React site running on the XDN at https://www.thetiebar.com/ !

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#2

Our “jam” is bringing the performance and front-end developer productivity benefits of the Jamstack to teams at large, dynamic websites where traditional static techniques don’t apply. For these teams, our platform makes their websites faster for their users and easier for their developers to manage. While we’re less well known in the ecosystem we have a long track record with some of the biggest brands in the world. While we do have a free tier, we’re not focused on sites like personal blogs or a small number of pages. While you can totally run those on the XDN, where the XDN shines is on large, dynamic sites — household names like Shoe Carnival, Sharper Image, and Revolve.

The hallmark pieces of the Moovweb XDN platform are:

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#4

Recently, I got the opportunities to explore these platforms, and here is my experience.

Indeed, Moovweb XDN, Netlify, and Vercel belong to the same product category.
They all provide an efficient workflow for frontend development, deployment, maintenance, and analytics.
In this, the Moovweb XDN outperforms for large dynamic sites and its key part is Speed and as it brings the sub-second page load.
It was developed by considering the large applications, especially eCommerce, and brings the JAMstack benefit to large eCommerce sites.

I liked the following aspects of Moovweb XDN:

  1. Sub-second page load
    Moovweb XDN is bringing the performance and sub-second page for large sites, which is a game-changer.

  2. Developer friendly workflow
    I deployed my few apps on Moovweb XDN, the experience was really great, the workflow defined for executing various operations related to deployment is very well managed.

  3. Incremental migration
    It is always a challenge for enterprises to migrate from the legacy systems, the incremental migration approach of Moovweb is a boon in this situation.

  4. Predictive Prefetching, brings zero latency to the site.

  5. Devtools
    The XDN Devtools widget helps to understand the behavior of the site i.e. how the site interacts with the XDN, mainly includes, Edge and browser caching, and prefetching.
    More details can be found at Moovweb XDN Documentation - Devtools

  6. Performance monitoring by route
    We as developers understand routes more efficiently than URL.
    The OOTB monitoring tool provided by XDN shows the performance details by the route.

Apart from this,
Build time, performance, and deployment overhead are some common challenges faced when using JAMstack for large enterprise websites, the Moovweb gracefully handles these challenges.

The various pieces of the Moovweb XDN platform can be referred from the answers provided by @howie.ross and @ianand.

So, to conclude if the performance of your site affects your business or you are looking for a sub-second page load, I will strongly recommend to go with Moovweb XDN.

Thanks!