I recently decided on Forestry.io because of the great free plan, the clear documentation, and the fact that they developed Tina CMS, which (I think justifiably) got a lot of press recently.
Forestry has some cool features for detecting patterns and setting up templates from an existing project, so I thought it was nice that I could confidently start development locally and try their service after-the-fact. Netlify may very well support something similar.
I think the great thing about both tools is that they're necessarily uncoupled from whatever site generator you're using, so there's no risk of platform lock-in. I ended up deciding not to actually use Forestry (or any CMS) when I realized it couldn't leverage some of the Hugo CLI features I was so excited about. I didn't need to change anything; I can remove the Forestry config files, but I don't have to: nothing about Forestry affected the way my site is built or deployed (it just integrates with your git repo).
TL;DR: I wouldn't be surprised if you could try both Forestry and Netlify at the same time, and pick which one you like better.
I recently decided on Forestry.io because of the great free plan, the clear documentation, and the fact that they developed Tina CMS, which (I think justifiably) got a lot of press recently.
Forestry has some cool features for detecting patterns and setting up templates from an existing project, so I thought it was nice that I could confidently start development locally and try their service after-the-fact. Netlify may very well support something similar.
I think the great thing about both tools is that they're necessarily uncoupled from whatever site generator you're using, so there's no risk of platform lock-in. I ended up deciding not to actually use Forestry (or any CMS) when I realized it couldn't leverage some of the Hugo CLI features I was so excited about. I didn't need to change anything; I can remove the Forestry config files, but I don't have to: nothing about Forestry affected the way my site is built or deployed (it just integrates with your git repo).
TL;DR: I wouldn't be surprised if you could try both Forestry and Netlify at the same time, and pick which one you like better.
Trying both of them sounds even better to make an educated decision, good idea. Thanks :D