Netlify support (Blobs storage + scheduled publish)

[nickytonline]

Problem

EmDash doesn’t support Netlify the way it supports Node and Cloudflare. With @astrojs/netlify, local media storage fails because Function disks are ephemeral, and emdash/storage/s3 isn’t a fit for Netlify Blobs (not S3-compatible for that adapter; no signed upload URLs). Scheduled publish also assumes a long-lived process: generateSchedulerModule only nulls createScheduler for @astrojs/cloudflare, so Netlify still gets NodeCronScheduler, which dies between Function invocations.

Use case

EmDash on an Astro site deployed to Netlify:

• Turso / libsql() for content
• Netlify Blobs for media
• Netlify Functions for admin SSR and the scheduled-publish hook

Current workarounds

Site-local package: packages/emdash-netlify

1. Blobs storage — EmDash Storage on @netlify/blobs. getSignedUploadUrl throws NOT_SUPPORTED, so the admin uploads through the API (same as local storage). astro dev still uses disk.
2. Schedule — A Netlify scheduled function (* * * * *) POSTs to an on-demand Astro route that calls runScheduledTasks() in the server bundle. Virtual modules aren’t available in a standalone function.

A plugin can’t fix the scheduler adapter check. Upstream I’d want: treat @astrojs/netlify like Cloudflare for the scheduler, and ship something like @emdash-cms/netlify for Blobs. Happy to PR after the design lands.

Note that I vibed packages/emdash-netlify, so maybe not the best implementation. 🙈

This works really well for my own site atm, nickyt.co

Drafted with Cursor Auto; I edited before posting.

Your involvement

• I am requesting this capability.
• I am offering to champion the design in a feature plan or RFC.
• I am offering to implement it after the design is accepted.