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Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
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Modern Web Development on the JAMstack

by Mathias Biilmann
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
123 pages
2h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

Learn how to run your web projects—everything from simple sites to complex applications—without a single server. It’s possible with the JAMstack, a modern web development architecture for deploying fast, highly-scalable sites and applications that don’t require traditional origin infrastructure. This practical report explains how the JAMstack delivers better performance, higher security, and lower cost of scaling than server-run web apps.

Based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup, the JAMstack sits at the center of several converging trends and technologies already being used to support today’s web projects. Authors Mathias Biilmann and Phil Hawksworth from Netlify demonstrate how the JAMstack drastically improves performance, increases reliability, and reduces the surface for attacks.

With this report, you’ll explore:

  • Methods for solving web development challenges—from bloated legacy architecture to managing microservices
  • Why the JAMstack’s cleaner architecture eliminates the need to scale sites up front
  • How separating the frontend from your build process makes maintenance easier
  • Best practices for adopting the JAMstack in your organization
  • A case study that examines how Smashing Magazine applied the JAMstack for commerce, authentication and membership, and publishing at scale
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ISBN: 9781492058571