What is JAMstack:
The JAMstack is a new and modern way of building websites and apps. The “JAM” comes from JavaScript, APIs, and Markup (these three components are foundational). From these three core concepts:
JavaScript: Any dynamic programming during the request/response cycle is handled by JavaScript, running entirely on the client.
APIs: All server-side functions or database actions are abstracted into reusable APIs, accessed over HTTPS with JS. Be it SaaS, third-party services or custom-built.
Markup: Templated markup should be prebuilt at build time, usually using a site generator for content sites, or a build tool for web apps.
Sites created with the JAMstack are delivered by pre-rendering files that are served directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.
The term was coined by Mathias Biilmann, co-founder of Netlify.
Why use JAMstack?
- Faster performance: Because a JAMstack website is pre-built HTML and assets, it can be served over a CDN.
- Higher security: JAMstack websites reduce server and database surface area vulnerabilities.
- Lower cost: The cost of running a JAMstack website is generally lower than comparable alternatives since it uses fewer resources.
- Better developer experience: With the JAMstack, there is no tight coupling between the application backend and frontend. This means that you can select from among different CMS and content infrastructure options, removing the need for separate stacks to maintain and serve content. Using JAMstack also simplifies the process of using third-party services like Algolia and Netlify Forms.
Advantages of JAMstack:
Extremely Secure
Due to the data pre-processing as well as extensive use of APIs, JAMstack minimizes the data interactions, thereby the probability of attacks. The minimal expose of data makes it an extremely secure approach for building the websites.
Better Performance
JAMstack is known for its performance and speed. Because of providing the ready to use data instead of creating it on every interaction dynamically, JAMstack makes the websites blazingly fast as well as deliver a commendable performance.
Highly Scalable
With JAMstack, it is extremely easier for the developer to deploy its JAMstack website anywhere. The developer needs not to worry about the database configuration or setup, he can simply feed the data by availing the pre-processed files to the CDN.
Better Developer Experience
The decoupled front-end and back-end, used in the JAMstack provides a modular approach to the developer, making development and testing even more targeted and effective. To add to the amazing experience provided by the JAMstack, the availability of the Static site generators(SSG) makes the development process easier and managed, transforming the provided content to the static HTML files through the predefined templates.
Conclusion
In this blog article, you knew about JAMstack. You also learned about project requirements for JAMstack sites. For examples of websites and web apps built with the JAMstack, you can also look at these official examples.
You can learn more about the JAMstack by going through the official website and the resources section.
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