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Practical JAMstack

Blazing Fast, Simple, and Secure Web Development, the Modern Way

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  • The first Apress book on both JAMstack and GatsbyJS

  • Provides a practical approach by building real applications, not simplistic examples

  • Written by an author with over a decades’ worth and a dozen books’ worth of experience writing about such topics

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. What Is JAMstack All About?

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 1-17
  3. Making a Simple Sandwich with JAMstack

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 19-58
  4. Bringing in the Big Guns: Gatsby

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 59-104
  5. A Deeper Dive into React

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 105-149
  6. Building JAMboard

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 151-199
  7. The “A” in JAMstack

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 201-239
  8. JAMstack for Fun and… Well, Just FUN!

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 241-275
  9. Completing the Game

    • Frank Zammetti
    Pages 277-299
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 301-307

About this book

Learn what JAMstack is all about, what those three big letters in the front mean and why it’s so beneficial.  This book shows you how to create sites and apps on the JAMstack using GatsbyJS, a tool made specifically for generating them.  As part of that, you’ll learn about React, one of the hottest front-end development tools out there today.

You will build three separate projects, starting with a relatively simple site to get your feet wet, then a more robust and dynamic application to see more advanced topics like API usage and data storage.  Finally, you’ll build a game on the JAMstack to get a whole different perspective on how all the pieces can fit together.

JAMstack, a modern take on best practices, is taking the web development world by storm and allowing developers to create web site and apps that are blazingly fast and highly secure. In many ways JAMstack is a throwback to web development of yesteryear, all while providing a simpler development experience that is streamlined by many years of best practices being brought to bear.

What You'll Learn

  • Review the principles of JAMstack: Javascript, APIs and Markup
  • Use React to build a front-end
  • Set up a GitHub account and hosting using GitHub Pages
  • Host in Netlify (the creators of JAMstack!)
  • Understand Netlify functions and FaunaDB for persistent data storage
  • Explore GraphQL usage for querying data
  • Work with the Phaser game library

Who This Book Is For

Web developers with some HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience, who want to apply best practices to build web sites that have no back-end server infrastructure while still providing dynamic content along with a streamlined development process. Architects who just want to learn JAMstack, even if they aren’t going to be hacking code all day.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pottstown, USA

    Frank Zammetti

About the author

Frank Zammetti is the author of several Apress titles on a variety of web and mobile development topics. He has over 25 years of experience as a developer. You can find him on Twitter @fzammetti.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical JAMstack

  • Book Subtitle: Blazing Fast, Simple, and Secure Web Development, the Modern Way

  • Authors: Frank Zammetti

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6177-4

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Frank Zammetti 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6176-7Published: 25 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6177-4Published: 24 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Web Development

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access