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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)

Chapter 14: Deployment Using Netlify and Azure

In the last chapter, we prepared our website for deployment. We added style to the components using Tailwind CSS. Lastly, we cleaned up the layout and refactored the code to components. Now, we can look more closely at the last component of the Jamstack used in this book: Netlify. Netlify is used as the default platform for the Blog with Gatsby example that was created at https://sanity.io/create. At the time of writing this book, Microsoft has added the Static Web Apps service, providing yet another option for deployment. Since GitHub and Azure are both owned by Microsoft, there is an excellent integration between the Static Web Apps service and GitHub.

This chapter first introduces the Netlify serverless continuous deployment hosting service, which automates many of the tasks that previously either needed to be developed or performed manually, and then demonstrates Azure Static Web Apps as an alternative for developers who may already...