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Rajesh Royal
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what is JAMstack?

By definition, JAMstack is an alternative approach for building websites - the JAM here stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markdown. For you, it means faster websites with better SEO ranking capabilities and happier users overall.

We build them using battle-tested technologies like GatsbyJS, Hugo, Contentful, Netlify, and other headless CMSes.

To put it as simply as possible, JAMstack is a handy abbreviation coined by Mathias Biilmann, the CEO of Netlify and it stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

It represents a modern web development architecture that gives devs an opportunity to rely on the advantages of a static website, which include better web performance and security benefits, while still retaining the dynamic attributes of a database-oriented CMS without the database.

It’s imperative to point out that with JAMstack the rules and benefits are quite self-explanatory and straightforward:

  • JavaScript (on the client-side) is carrying out dynamic programming during the request/response cycle.

  • Reusable APIs are accessed via HTTPS with JavaScript abstract all server-side processes or database actions.

  • The templated markup ought to be prebuilt at deploy time, utilizing a site generator or a build tool for web apps.

Data source: BEJMAS

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Amycruz πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

In my opinion, JAMstack is not about specific technologies. JAMstack is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience. It is the combination of underlying tooling that makes JAMstack so exciting. JAMstack is composed of 3 components: Javascript, APIs, and Markup. Read more about JAMstack here πŸ‘‰ agilitycms.com/resources/posts/top...

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perpetual . education

So, Netlify is pretty public about "JAMstack" being a marketing term they invented --- but isn't it just a "website" - that isn't a single-page-app?

For example, isn't a PHP page with a little JavaScript on it - still in that realm? Or do you think that the pages need to be prerendered to be 'official' ?

The values behind it are great / but it seems kinda crazy to get so reliant on React - for some basically 'classic' HTML pages. What do you think?

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Rajesh Royal

for basic needs relaying on JAMstack is not a wise idea πŸ˜…. The biggest advantage of JAMstack is performance ⚑ along with other

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Mahmoud AlSharif

Thanks for sharing

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Rajesh Royal

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