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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

By : Christopher Pecoraro, Vincenzo Gambino
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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

By: Christopher Pecoraro, Vincenzo Gambino

Overview of this book

Jamstack (JavaScript, API, and Markup) enables web developers to create and publish modern and maintainable websites and web apps focused on speed, security, and accessibility by using tools such as Gatsby, Sanity, and Netlify. Developers working with Jamstack will be able to put their knowledge to good use with this practical guide to static site generation and content management. This Jamstack book takes a hands-on approach to implementation and related methodologies that will have you up and running with modern web development in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you'll begin by building an event and venue schema structure, and then expand the functionality, exploring all that the Jamstack has to offer. You’ll learn how an example Jamstack is built, build structured content using Sanity to create a schema, use GraphQL to expose the content, and employ Gatsby to build an event website using page and template components and Tailwind CSS Framework. Lastly, you’ll deploy the website to both, a Netlify server and the Microsoft Static Web Apps Service, and interact with it using Amazon Alexa. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to install, configure, build, extend, and deploy a simple events website using Jamstack.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Getting started with the Jamstack

Now that we have learned about the history of the Jamstack and its advantages, we will next look at the tools necessary to use the Jamstack in the context of this book.

Installation

Installing all of the pieces of a Jamstack development environment and configuring everything to work properly will be daunting for developers who are new to the technology, so the best approach is to refer to each of the components' websites for up-to-date installation and configuration documentation.

This book has an accompanying GitHub repository with all of the code necessary to perform all of the examples. Therefore, the first tool that needs to be installed will be the Git version control system. Users who are new to Git will find a vast amount of information, cheat sheets, and help forums for its usage, but most of the basic operations are performed with only four or five commands. Many code editors, such as WebStorm, have the commands built into the...