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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)

Basic queries with GROQ

In this section, we are going to perform project-related GROQ queries. GROQ syntax can be used to interact with Sanity's API. Additionally, many of Sanity's integrations will be able to obtain information using this syntax.

Selecting all events

The first simple query we are going to run will select all events stored in the dataset.

By default, GROQ will set the order of the results to the id field. The id used in Sanity is the _id key in the resulting array:

*[_type == "event"]

This query will return all event content in a JSON-formatted array as shown:

 "result":[
  0:{
    "_createdAt":"2020-04-15T22:17:50Z"
    "_id":"6ddd2730-9aca-46dd-a7fd-850ab306f7fb"
    "_rev":"JmIGD46Mad7O6ByZXl1tpF"
    "_type":"event"
    "_updatedAt...