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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)

Understanding the types of components

There are three main types of Gatsby components used in this project: page components, templates, and partial components. Let's look at each type as they all serve a different purpose.

Gatsby page components

One of the simplest types of components used in Gatsby is a page component. Gatsby page components are used only once for single, unique pages, such as the index (home) page, 404 page, or an about us page, for example. This page will only be generated once.

Building and modifying Gatsby page components

As mentioned previously, pages are unique. By creating a page component and placing it in the /web/ src/pages folder, Gatsby will automatically generate the page.

The content of a code page in Gatsby can be as simple as the following example, which contains the entire page contents inside a string:

// Does not require React because there is no JSX
const AboutUsPage = () => (
  `Who we are: .......`
)
export...