Throughout December we'll be highlighting a different Netlify feature each day. It might just be the thing you need to unlock those creative juices, and dust off that domain you registered but never deployed! Keep an eye on the blog and on Twitter for each feature!

With Branch Deploys, you can say goodbye to the headaches of replicating your build and hosting environments for staging, testing, production and so on.

Now, you can have unlimited identical environments within Netlify's build and hosting infrastructure simply by creating a branch in your code repository and letting Netlify know that you'd like to build and serve that too.

Each branch of the code repository for your site gets a URL on an appropriately-named subdomain which tracks the head of the branch. And by default, each one is configured in just the same way, and is served from identical hosting infrastructure.

The days of trying to configure each environment identically, or troubleshoot their differences are over!

You can tell Netlify to deploy every branch it finds in your repository, or just some specified branches, or ignore them all together. Visit the Build and Deploy section of your site's admin page to configure it just how you'd like.

More information

• From the docs: Branches and Deploys
• Get full control over your branch deploys
• Netlify Build