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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)

The Jamstack's future

The growth of the Jamstack, at the time of writing, is very evident. In the next section, we'll learn about some of the new technologies and trends emerging within the community.

Jamstack, JAMstack, and JAM Stack

We hope that you have enjoyed reading this book. There are many topics we would have liked to have covered, because the Jamstack is a constantly evolving concept. Many of the code examples may be improved upon as the various frameworks mature and newer versions are released. We wrote this book split between two time zones, one in the United States and one in Europe. We also wrote this book during a difficult time in the history of the world, when a pandemic caused massive lockdowns.

Despite these difficulties, we have shown that technical collaboration is possible in any situation. In fact, the state of the art regarding cloud-based and networking technology has been pushed to its limits. It has, in a way, been brought to the forefront...