CategoryJamstack

April 6, 2021 — With many options comes many decisions, and it is easy to drown in all the many benefits of headless CMS. How do we approach evaluating these options? Let’s figure it out. Read more…

March 23, 2021 — One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. In this article, we explore what headless means, use cases for it, and how to decide if headless is a good fit for you. Read more…

November 17, 2020 — We’re asking what it looks like to dogfood the Jamstack at Netlify. Can you deploy an entire app to a CDN? Drew McLellan talks to Netlify Staff Engineer Leslie Cohn-Wein to find out. Read more…

June 9, 2020 — In this article, we’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged app using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions. Read more…

January 28, 2020 — WordPress adoption is massive. So why would a WordPress site consider moving to JAMstack? In this technical case study, Sarah Drasner will cover what an actual WordPress migration looks like, using Smashing Magazine itself! She’ll talk through the gains and losses, the things she wishes she knew earlier, and what she was surprised by. Let’s dig in! Read more…

December 18, 2019 — Skipping servers and using the JAMstack to build and deliver websites and apps can save time, money, and headache by allowing us to deliver only static assets on a CDN. But the trade-off of ditching traditional server-based deployments means that standard approaches to dynamic, asynchronous interactions in our sites and apps aren’t available anymore.

Does that mean that JAMstack sites can’t handle dynamic interactions? Definitely not!

JAMstack sites are great for creating highly dynamic, asynchronous interactions. With some small adjustments to how we think about our code, we can create fun, immersive interactions using only static assets! Read more…

June 20, 2019 — The web is wonderfully diverse and unpredictable because of wonderfully diverse people shaping it. In this new series of short interviews, we talk to interesting people doing interesting work in our industry and sharing what they’ve learned. You probably have heard of JAMstack — the new web stack based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup — but what does it mean for your workflow and when does it make sense in your projects? We’ve kindly asked Phil Hawksworth to run a webinar explaining what JAMStack actually means and when it makes sense, as well as how it affects tooling and front-end architecture. Read more…

May 27, 2019 — The web is wonderfully diverse and unpredictable because of wonderfully diverse people shaping it. In this new series of short interviews, we talk to interesting people doing interesting work in our industry and sharing what they’ve learned. Today, Vitaly Friedman talks to Phil Hawksworth, a front-end engineer who is now focusing on developing strategies for JAMstack technologies to make building for the web simpler, faster, and more secure. Read more…