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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

By : Christopher Pecoraro, Vincenzo Gambino
Book Image

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)

Configuring the skill through the skill interface

Once the skill has been created, we land on our skill interface. In the top menu, we have the following six options, as shown in the screenshot:

  • Build
  • Code
  • Test
  • Distribution
  • Certification
  • Analytics

Figure 12.8 – Alexa skill interface top menu

Since this is an example skill, we will be exploring Build, Code, and Test in this chapter. The Distribution, Certification, and Analytics tabs are used when the skill is added to the marketplace.

Build

The Build section is where we can set the invocation name, configure the interaction model, set slots, and set the endpoint:

Figure 12.9 – Alexa skill interface build menu

Invocation

The invocation name is the keyword we need to interact with our skill. Our invocation name is jumpstart jamstack, so we can say Alexa, open jumpstart jamstack:

Figure 12.10 – Alexa skill...