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You Can’t Ignore the Jamstack Architecture

IFMinds
4 min readJan 8, 2023

According to HTTPArchive, today more than 1% of ALL websites are based on the Jamstack architectural approach

Whether you are an experienced or a novice web developer, your main, urgent goal is to avoid:

  • Slow loading times
  • Security vulnerabilities
  • Scaling issues
  • Headaches

The Jamstack is a way of building web applications that utilizes modern tools and technologies based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markdown — J.A.M. stack — in order to decouple the frontend from the backend.

Static Site Generator

The frontend of a Jamstack application is built using static site generators (SSGs), which take your source code and content (e.g. from GitHub) and generate a set of pre-built HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.

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CDN

These static files are then deployed to a CDN (Content Delivery Network), which is a globally…

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