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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)

Introduction to APIs

APIs have been around almost since we started programming. Modern APIs started to be come as we know them now in the early 2000s, when companies such as Amazon started to provide access to their data through HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests. These companies changed the way we did business online. Developers could now get and post user information from services such as Salesforce and provide a full e-commerce experience on their application using APIs.

In 2004, with the introduction of social networks, we changed the way we were using the internet. Companies such as Facebook and Twitter started developing their own APIs. Similar to the e-commerce experience, developers could now get a user's profile information, events, and pictures from social networking applications.

A few years later, the new generation of smartphones came out. People started navigating the internet through their mobile phones and developers started developing applications...