JAMstack - Javascript, API's and Markup!
What is it?
JAMStack: Javascript, API's and Markup
Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web server
Any project that relies on a tight coupling between client and server is not built with the Jamstack
Microservice/Serverless API's - not exclusive to either but consumption of external/loosely coupled services
Can be used with static site generators but can be plain old HTML/JS (frameworks allowed! i.e. Angular/Vue/React)
Why would I use it?
Why wait for pages to build on the fly when you can generate them at deploy time? When it comes to minimizing the time to first byte, nothing beats pre-built files served over a CDN
When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans
With server-side processes abstracted into microservice APIs, surface areas for attacks are reduced. You can also leverage the domain expertise of specialist third-party services
Links
Official JAMstack website Netlify: a good place to start with JAMstack Introduction to Azure Static Web Apps A great 30 min walkthrough of building an Azure static web app (JAMstack style!) with John Papa
Episode 4 - JAMstack