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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)

Gatsby.js layout modifications

There are many different ways to incorporate styles into a web page to change the default fonts, colors, backgrounds, and layout. While style and classes can also be created one by one, an easier and more efficient approach is to use a framework to leverage pre-built ideas and design patterns. One of the hottest cascading frameworks at the time of writing is Tailwind CSS. Let's introduce Tailwind and learn why it is used within Gatsby.

Introducing Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is a nice CSS framework that is easy to learn and use. It aims to be unopinionated and is driven toward allow the designer to construct styles from smaller pieces. Let's start by installing the framework so that we can use it.

Installing the Tailwind CSS framework

We will install it and use it to improve the visual appearance of the website:

  1. The first step is to use the Node package manager to install Tailwind CSS. In the terminal, type the following command...