JAMstack Roundup for August 12th 2019

Navin Mani

Developer Advocate

Here are 5 great articles we're bring to you this week!

1. eCommerce and Data APIs

Traditional, monolithic eCommerce platforms are a thing of the past โณ. We are seeing a new wave of headless eCommerce environments where data and presentation are decoupled using robust APIโ€™s โŒš๏ธ.

2. Serverless JAM - A Serverless Framework Tutorial

Finding a modern toolset to create truly fast ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ, secure ๐Ÿ”’,  and dynamic ๐Ÿง sites has been an endless search. With JAMstack and the Serverless approach, we have just that.

3. The JAMstack Startup Landscape

How websites and applications are developed is undergoing a massive architectural shift ๐Ÿ™‚โ€” from the tooling developers utilize to build them to the UI/UX end users interact with. It is revolutionary and turning the world of application development upside down ๐Ÿ™ƒ.

4. Super Glue Your Site: A Friendly Focus on User-Centric Web Design

Websites that focus on user-centric ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธdesign have a better chance at finding and converting customers than sites which do not. Building on the JAMstack frees up development time that can be used to focus ๐Ÿ”Žon architecting the best user-experience.

5. The Front End: Using Gatsby.js and Node.js for Static Site Updates

For some project requirements ๐Ÿ“‹, static page generation is not only sufficient, itโ€™s also the most efficient in terms of speed and scalability. Using Gatsby, Node, and the TakeShape CMS ๐Ÿคyou can create a wonderfully powerful JAMstack app.