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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 gatsby develop command

Using Gatsby at the command line provides many different types of functionality for the various project stages. Initially, the gatsby develop command will start up Gatsby in development mode. This allows changes to be viewed in real time. The command won't stop running until you press Ctrl + C. This key combination is used in the UNIX operating system to terminate (kill) a process.

From inside the /web directory, type gatsby develop, as this will cause the Gatsby development environment (.env.development) to run, using the development configuration, as opposed to the production configuration (.env.production). Also, it will create a GraphQL playground called GraphiQL (pronounced like graphical). This will allow us to actually interact with Sanity's GraphQL interface and to begin to write, test, and view the results of the queries needed to create our events website.