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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)

Understanding plugins

In this section, we will explore the basics of a plugin, what a plugin is, and why it is needed in a project. We will explore the public collection of open source code, npm. We will explain how semantic versioning control works and why it is important. We will then see how to install and maintain plugins.

Gatsby plugins are Node.js packages, a set of JavaScript and HyperText Markup Language/Cascading Style Sheets (HTML/CSS) files that extend the Gatsby application programming interfaces (APIs) and add new functionalities to the application. You can enable a feature by installing a plugin, and you can disable it by uninstalling the plugin.

The extensible nature of Gatsby allows you to create your plugins in a way that allows you to organize your customized business logic into reusable packages, discussed in the next section.

Node Package Manager

A developer can download plugins from npm, which is a public collection of open source code for JavaScript...