What is JAMstack and why is so fast
Jamstack is the Modern way to build websites by using JavaScript, Apis and Markup.
Jamstack
JavaScript : The request and response cycle is handled by the client-side JavaScript it can be your single-page-app(spa) such as react or vuejs or plain JavaScript.
Apis: The APIs are used to store the user data in the database or handling authentication.
Markup: Site markup can prebuilt during the build time by using a static site generator.
Why JAMstack sites are fast?
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There is no heavy lifting servers behind the jamstack sites because everything is prebuilt HTML, CSS,JavaScript and served using the content delivery network(CDN).
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Each time you click on a new page or blog post in the WordPress site we make a network request to the server and we need to wait until the server builds that page and sends back to the client it often sometimes server fail to build a webpage during the heavy load.
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The hosting cost is also very cheap for the Jamstack sites compare to the other tech stacks.(Lamp or mean etc).
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High security.
Example sites build with the JAMstack
The site you are currently browsing is also build with jamstack by using the Gatsby static site generator.
- lodash.com
- serverless.com
- fullstackhq.com
- smashingmagazine.com
they are many more sites.
I have a complete tutorial of how to build a jamstack blog by using gatsbyjs and react.
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