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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

You're reading from Jumpstart Jamstack Development Build and deploy modern websites and web apps using Gatsby, Netlify, and Sanity

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800203495

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

JAMStack

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Authors (2):

Christopher Pecoraro

Vincenzo Gambino

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: History of the Jamstack

2. Chapter 2: Introduction to Sanity FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Exploring Sanity Studio

4. Chapter 4: Sanity Configuration and Schemas

5. Chapter 5: Sanity's GROQ Language

6. Chapter 6: Sanity's GraphQL Playground

7. Chapter 7: Gatsby – An Introduction

8. Chapter 8: Gatsby and GraphQL

9. Chapter 9: Gatsby Source Plugins

10. Chapter 10: Building Gatsby Components

11. Chapter 11: APIs – Extending Gatsby

12. Chapter 12: APIs – Alexa Skills

13. Chapter 13: Tying It All Together

14. Chapter 14: Deployment Using Netlify and Azure

15. Chapter 15: Conclusion

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Our Jamstack

As should be clear by now, the Jamstack is not a stack, but rather a web development paradigm. Any combination of the various components of the Jamstack ecosystem may be used. For this book, we will use three of the most popular software applications and services to produce a Jamstack website: GatsbyJS, Sanity.io, and Netlify. We will also provide several examples, using other Jamstack tools for comparison.

GatsbyJS

One of the most popular parts of the Jamstack that is actually a static site generator is GatsbyJS.

GatsbyJS (referred to as Gatsby) is open source and uses the React JavaScript library to compile and build static pages from various sources. These sources may be as simple as a filesystem; a collection of Markdown files; a traditional CMS such as WordPress or Drupal; or a headless CMS such as Contentful or Sanity.

Sanity.io

Since the Jamstack way of doing web development eschews a single, monolithic CMS, the actual content that a website needs...

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Authors (2)

Christopher Pecoraro

Christopher Pecoraro

Christopher Pecoraro has been a senior software developer, speaker, and open source enthusiast since 1999 with experience in software development with a focus on web applications, apps, and content management systems.

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Vincenzo Gambino

Vincenzo Gambino

Vincenzo Gambino has been a software developer since 2007. He started in Palermo, Italy, and is now based in London, UK. He has developed software and web applications for government departments and many educational entities, including one of the major universities in the United Kingdom. He is focused on web applications, virtual assistant apps, and content management systems.

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