React & the JAMstack

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Argues that moving front ends to a CDN plus microservices cuts ops and boosts performance, demoing automated builds from create-react-app via webpack to a global CDN and automatic AWS Lambda deployment. Shows per-pull-request deploy preview URLs, a live hello-world lambda, and a Smashing Magazine case: content in Git, Hugo+preact front end, three lambdas, and under 600 lines of custom backend code powering membership, e‑commerce and comments.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 1:47Evolution of frontend development
3. 3:11Legacy web architecture problems
4. 5:41Modern JAMstack architecture
5. 8:13React in the JAMstack
6. 10:17Live demo of deployment
7. 13:08Lambda integration demo
8. 14:39Pull request deployment
9. 16:11Case study: Smashing Magazine
10. 21:53Future of frontend development
11. 22:14Summary and Q&A

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