8 Working with serverless computing

This chapter covers

  • Defining serverless
  • Explaining what serverless means for the Jamstack
  • Describing serverless options
  • Building serverless functions with Netlify
  • Building serverless functions with Vercel

In the last chapter, we discussed a few different ways you can add dynamic elements back into your Jamstack sites. These were done via external services set up specifically to serve a need, for example, Google Forms letting you design and accept feedback for a form.

While the availability of these services continues to grow in both number and variety, there are certain things that simply do not make sense as external services, including very particular business logic for your Jamstack site that only you ...

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