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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)

Netlify plugins

Netlify's plugin library automates many manual processes and saves developers the effort of having to develop in-house solutions. This growing library includes many plugins. For example, one plugin can fetch and incorporate external resources such as RSS feeds. Another plugin can also generate a sitemap or even index the website content to create a search functionality.

HTML Minify

The plugin that we'll examine for the purpose of this book compresses the HTML, reducing the file size by removing unnecessary page or code contents, or substituting variable names with single-character replacements. This process is called minification.

We would like to Minify the HTML code as much as possible, so we could use Netlify's plugin called netlify-plugin-minify-html to compress the file contents. When Gatsby builds the static pages, it minimizes the content of the HTML files.

The following is an example of how the readable source code would appear prior...