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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to style a website for modern design and responsiveness using the Tailwind CSS framework, saving time and effort when compared to starting with traditional CSS. Next, we learned how to extract fragments of the page into separate components. Finally, we added dynamic functionality to the form itself.

Styling and polishing the user experience is a deep subject, and therefore beyond the scope of this book. Feel free to read the Tailwind CSS documentation for more ways to improve the appearance. Also, even using other elements of React, which Gatsby can fully take advantage of, could help build out this prototype into a full website—you have all the tools needed.

In the next chapter, Netlify will be used to deploy the website and we will see its usefulness in automating many tasks that previously needed to be performed manually.