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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)

Gatsby, built on React

React is a JavaScript library used to create user interfaces. It uses declarative syntax and also a modular component-based system. Since Gatsby is built on top of React, you will quickly discover many pieces of React as you learn more about Gatsby. Another part of the Gatsby ecosystem called JSX is also used by Gatsby. JSX allows Gatsby page elements to be written using the familiar HTML tag format and allows the use of attributes to pass parameters to them. Each JSX tag can be a single unit of a project. Since JSX tags are also JavaScript, they may be integrated with JavaScript programming logic.

Since React is one of many JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as Angular and Vue, the framework itself is quite large, with a healthy ecosystem, and much learning is required to develop proficiency. Luckily, there are many training courses specific to React should you want to more deeply learn how to use it. While learning React is outside of the scope of...