A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Can’t follow there with Jamstack’s SSG, ISR, DPR, DSG abbreviations? And what about Edge Rendering? Brian Rinaldi has a nice post explaining them all, and guiding you when to choose which. static rendering – Use this as your default. deferred rendering – Use this when you have to render a lot of pages. server-side rendering …
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Talk by Rich Harris, as presented at the most recent JamstackConf: Transitional apps samples elements from both traditional and modern architecture. The term is borrowed from interior design’s framing of “transitional design.” Transitional apps are, like multi-page apps, server-side rendered for fast initial loads, resilient since they work without JS by default, and provide a …
Just announced by Cloudflare — and currently in beta — is “Cloudflare Pages”, a product that competes with Netlify. Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites. Plays nice with Cloudflare Workers too. Cloudflare Pages →Cloudflare Pages Announcement →
Update 2020.06.09: here’s a full tutorial to get you started with RedwoodJS. Now here’s an interesting project: Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on …
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up webhooks by Zapier to send information to a third-party service and how to integrate them into your JAMstack site using Netlify Functions. This combination allows you to quickly and easily create dynamic functionality on your JAMstack site and create services that do things existing APIs …
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About two months ago I developed the website for vBridge, a new company I’m participating in. As the website consists of only one static placeholder-like page, I decided to look into hosting the page directly onto a CDN. Having heard a lot of good things about Netlify, I decided to check that out. The site …
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This introduction to JAMstack – or is it SHAMstack? – is quite complete: Traditional websites or CMS sites (e.g WordPress, Drupal, etc.) rely heavily on servers, plugins and databases. But the JAMstack can load some JavaScript that receives data from an API, serving files from a CDN and markup generated using a static site generator …