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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203495
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christopher Pecoraro Christopher Pecoraro
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Alexa skill life cycle

A user activates a particular skill by saying the trigger word Alexa followed by the skill name and the intent (command) to be executed. For example, Alexa, ask jumpstart jamstack to tell me my upcoming events.

The Amazon Echo device will send the request to the Alexa console, which will then process the request by contacting our Sanity application and will send the results back to the Amazon Echo device, prompting a message to the user.

To build an Alexa skill, we will use the Alexa Developer console. The two components of an Alexa skill are the skill interface and the skill service.

Skill interface

The Skill interface is the software provided by Amazon where the user can develop an Alexa skill through a nice and clean UI. We will use the skill interface to create and modify each component of the skill.

Skill service

The Skill service is where the business logic of an Alexa skill resides. The code will execute the intent and return a JSON response...

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