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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)

Contributing to Jamstack projects

A great portion of the technologies used in this book are open source, so we encourage contributions to each of the platforms. It's a wonderful way to have a lasting impact on both your own future and the future of the Jamstack ecosystem, in general.

Contributing to Sanity

In this section, we'll explain how to contribute to the Sanity Studio platform.

The Sanity community

The Sanity community has a Slack group located at the following address: https://sanity-io-land.slack.com. You can receive an invitation to join by visiting https://slack.sanity.io. There are various channels including a channel for help, channels for announcements and beta features, and even a jobs channel. The community is rapidly growing.

Studio

Since Sanity Studio is an open source project, you too can contribute to it. The source code is located at https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity.

As a standard GitHub repository, it can be cloned, and a local...