An Introduction to Static Web Apps with JAMStack
summary
PayPal replaces heavy Node servers with static markup and JS on a CDN, fronting dynamic data with GraphQL and using Gatsby as a site generator. Checkout migration yields roughly a fourfold performance improvement in many regions and deploys that once took hours across 400 servers now happen in minutes; a 1% live A/B test on PayPal.me shows about a 35% improvement across performance metrics, though middleware for auth and limited edge compute remain blockers.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17History
- 2:24UI Developer Experience
- 3:19API Markup
- 3:50Static Web Apps
- 4:10PayPal Checkout
- 5:25Gatsby
- 6:37Developer experience
- 7:00Pilot program
- 7:25Gatsby benefits
- 8:57Three takeaways
- 9:17Outro
