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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)

Account setup

The first step required is to create an account on the Sanity.io website (https://www.sanity.io). A Sanity account may be set up at the start of the project creation. The three different methods for creating an account are with a Google account, a GitHub account, or simply with an email and password. Next, we create an account on the Netlify website (https://app.netlify.com/signup). There are four methods that may be used for account creation: GitHub, GitLab, a Bitbucket account, or email and password. We will be using GitHub as it is the most convenient option. Finally, if not already created, create an account on the GitHub website (https://github.com/join). A username, email address, and password are required.

At the time of writing, all three services use the freemium model and thus provide a generous free plan for use with small projects.