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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)

Modifying the example author

The sample author created in the previous chapter is simply an example, so we will modify and personalize the author to our own name. Follow along with each step as we use Sanity Studio to modify the author.

Modifying the existing author

Follow these steps in order to learn how to do this task:

  1. Click the Desk icon in the top navigation bar, as shown:

    Figure 3.1 – Sanity Studio

    While Dashboard provides a broad overview of the contents, Desk provides a means to view, create, modify, and delete the project's contents.

  2. Click Authors in the Content navigation menu (located on the left), as shown:

    Figure 3.2 – Authors navigation menu item

  3. Click on the example author, My Name, in this case.
  4. Change Name to your actual name. Here, the name Christopher John Pecoraro is used as an example.
  5. Click the Generate button to generate a new slug. This will be the URL used for the author's profile page.
  6. Click the Upload...