Info JAMStack - the future?

[mxnerd]

Web programming paradigm shifting again?

What is Jamstack? The static website revolution upending web development

Learn how Jamstack combines modern development practices with old-school static web pages so developers can build fast websites faster.

www.infoworld.com

Netlify’s Jamstack platform extends to self-hosted GitHub, GitLab repos

Company now supports publishing Jamstack websites from self-hosted as well as GitHub and GitLab hosted repos, adds new per-seat service plan

www.infoworld.com

For fast and secure sites | Jamstack

What is the Jamstack? Why use the Jamstack? How do I get started? Learn what the Jamstack is all about and why it's the best approach for building faster, more secure websites.

jamstack.org

Netlify: Develop & deploy the best web experiences in record time

A powerful serverless platform with an intuitive git-based workflow. Automated deployments, shareable previews, and much more. Get started for free!

www.netlify.com

A Look at JAMstack's Speed, By the Numbers | CSS-Tricks

People say JAMstack sites are fast — let’s find out why by looking at real performance metrics! We’ll cover common metrics, like Time to First Byte

css-tricks.com

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Instant Cache Invalidation | Netlify

Instant Cache Invalidation is definitively part of Netlify's rocketjuice. Learn all about it here.

www.netlify.com

 

[purbeast0]

I am not really following this. Either that or I've been doing jamstack for years and didn't realize it.

I mean it claims to not be doing server side stuff, but then it has API in it's name, which is exactly that - a server that executes code to return the data.

And if you are hitting an API to get data, then your webpages are not "static" because they are being built dynamically with the data that is coming back from the API's.

My current projects I've been working on are Angular. There is no application server it's just "static" templates that are compiled and the javascript dynamically builds them out with the data that comes back from the backend, which is a java server.

So is that jamstack and I've been using it for years? Or is that different than jamstack?

But the wording of "hey you don't even use a backend server! you just use an API instead!" is really dumb. That API isn't running on some magical place - it's running on some sort of backend.

 

[mxnerd]

I think I was misled by Infoworld's article.

It seems it's mostly for Content Management Systems developers / hosting companies, (ex. Wix.com , Wordpress) not really for other types of web applications. The API here probably means CMS API.