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