Do we really need this JAMstack thing? And what even is it?
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Claims that pre-rendering to a CDN yields big wins: Smashing Magazine drops median first‑paint from ~800ms to ~80ms, a 10× improvement, and a simple CDN dump shows ~6× speedup. Tooling examples: Netlify, Surge, Now, AWS, Contentful, Sanity, Algolia, Stripe, Snipcart, Auth0, webtasks.io and functions‑as‑a‑service. Builds run in CI from git, triggerable by webhooks, enabling atomic immutable deploys and a comment‑moderation pipeline that posts to Slack then rebuilds and publishes. Even a Google I/O Minesweeper ships 25KB interactive under 5s. minute‑by‑minute deploys
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:46JAMstack
- 2:24Static
- 5:42LAMP
- 9:26Project timelines
- 13:55Baking not frying
- 16:05Security
- 28:19Freeside
- 31:04Examples
- 36:22JavaScript
- 39:30Service Functions
- 41:28Services
- 43:51MVP
- 45:31Webhooks
- 49:13Conclusion
