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I can get that a significant part of it is just "static HTML," what I don't quite get is what makes it different than just static site generation. I guess that

• whalesalad 6y ago
  Yea... SPA == same thing imho.
• detaro 6y ago
  Marketing pretty much. Some vague cloud of "uses serverless to generate", "pushes static files to a CDN through an API", but if you drill down none of that is key to it. I.e. you'll find advocates state that if a site uses a static site generator or Netlify it's JAMStack.
• madeofpalk 6y ago
  no, that's it. jamstack - static site generator, but javascript
• Vinnl 6y ago
  It mostly concerns how often content is updated. Real-time: dynamically generated on the server-side. (e.g. injecting the current user's username) Occasionally: Jamstack (e.g. rebuilding a static site every time a contributors adds a blog post via the CMS) Rarely: manual updates (e.g. manually deploying a new version of a small-town restaurant's website when the menu changes)