Episode 4 - JAMstack
JAMstack - the fact it has JAM in the name makes it tasty already! but what is JAMstack?
Just Five Mins! · David Sheardown
May 31, 20205m 27s
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Show Notes
JAMstack - Javascript, API's and Markup!
What is it?
- JAMStack: Javascript, API's and Markup
- Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files
and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement
to manage or run web server
- Any project that relies on a tight coupling between client and server is not built with the Jamstack
- Microservice/Serverless API's - not exclusive to either but consumption of external/loosely coupled services
- Can be used with static site generators but can be plain old HTML/JS (frameworks allowed! i.e. Angular/Vue/React)
Why would I use it?
- Why wait for pages to build on the fly when you can generate them at deploy time? When it comes to minimizing the time to first byte, nothing beats pre-built files served over a CDN
- When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans
- With server-side processes abstracted into microservice APIs, surface areas for attacks are reduced. You can also leverage the domain expertise of specialist third-party services
Links
Official JAMstack website
Netlify: a good place to start with JAMstack
Introduction to Azure Static Web Apps
A great 30 min walkthrough of building an Azure static web app (JAMstack style!) with John Papa
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