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What is the Jamstack and What Can It Do for You?
From The Jamstack Book by Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi
What is the Jamstack and what can it do?
The Jamstack is more of an architecture or methodology for building web applications than a prescriptive stack of technologies. Jamstack was formed in response to dynamic web page development that many felt had become cumbersome, slow and insecure. The Jamstack architecture offers a number of benefits including page speed, security and cost.
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As Jamstack has gained popularity in recent years, one common criticism is that it’s nothing but a marketing term. The truth is, they’re right. As we’ll explore, Jamstack was a term invented to “rebrand” an architecture many developers were already using to build sites because the existing terminology had become misleading. Although calling it marketing may be a fair critique, Jamstack is still a way of building sites that has been gaining rapid adoption by web developers.
What is the Jamstack?
The Jamstack isn’t a simple thing to define. A Jamstack installer doesn’t exist and no predefined set of tools…
