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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 deploy websites through Netlify. We also learned how to install and use Netlify plugins, as well as how to use the netlify.toml configuration file and command-line utilities.

Additionally, we learned how to create and manage a Jamstack web application through the Static Web Apps service on Azure and also how to manage app redeployments through GitHub.

Having multiple options for Jamstack deployment demonstrates its decoupled nature. Multiple services can be easily leveraged for the same application, as needed.

In the next chapter, we will conclude our journey into the world of Jamstack and discuss the present and future state of the Jamstack community, other tools and alternative components of the ecosystem, and upcoming technologies and companies that are writing the future.