September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
123 pages
2h 58m
English
Content preview from Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
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Chapter 1. The Challenges of Modern Web Development
In technology, any kind of change—even one that’s gradual or starts with smaller projects—won’t be made lightly. These shifts involve evaluation of past investments in infrastructure, acquisition of new knowledge, and thoughtful consideration of feature trade-offs.
So, before we can convince you that there’s value in considering the JAMstack as yet another approach to web development, we’ll spend some time digging into the most pervasive approaches to web development today and the challenges they introduce. Put simply, let’s look first at the risk of sticking with the status quo before diving into the JAMstack and the benefits of making a switch.
The Drawbacks of Monolithic Architectures
Web sites have traditionally been powered by monolithic architectures, with the frontend of the application tightly coupled to the backend.
Monolithic applications are opinionated about how tasks on the server take place. The opinions they enforce have shaped how web development is approached and the environment within which we now work.
Popular and trusted as the de facto way to build for the web, these tools have had a profound impact not just on how sites will perform, but also on how efficiently they can be developed and even on the mindset of the developers.
The lock-in created by this is tangible. These applications dictate the approach to many facets of a web development project in ways that are not always appealing to the web development ...
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