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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)

Creating the skill

As mentioned earlier, we are going to create a skill through the Alexa Developer Console, which will retrieve five upcoming events from our event website.

From the interface, we will create a new intent with a simple utterance:

  1. Log in to the Amazon Developer Console and click on the Alexa link as shown:

    Figure 12.1 – Amazon Developer Console

  2. Now, from the top menu, click on the Skill Builders link and then the Developer Console link, as shown:

    Figure 12.2 – Amazon Alexa console

    The Alexa Developer Console will show all the skills you have created, along with revenue that you are earning through Skills, Earnings, Payments, and Hosting.

  3. Click on the blue button that says Create Skill:

    Figure 12.3 – Amazon Alexa Skills overview

  4. Choose a skill name that will also be your invocation name. For this example, we will write jumpstart jamstack:

    Figure 12.4 – Amazon Alexa Skills creation page

    Models in the Alexa paradigm are sets...