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is JAMstack just another buzzword for static site hosting?

• 1_player 5y ago
  No, it's an over complicated way of using client-side technology to do server-side computation so that it loads as fast as a static page. Groundbreaking.
  • ridings 5y ago
    I don't think Jamstack will become the dominant way to build webapps. 95% of this site was static, brouchure-esque content. I wouldn't try and build a live dashboard using real-time metrics or data intensive graphs using Jamstack.
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• busterarm 5y ago
  sort of. it's JavaScript, APIs & Markup. The operating assumption is that you're still going to be doing dynamic work on the site but that it will all be client side. You'll end up rendering huge JSON blobs with your public data in your markup for your client side JavaScript to do things with. Text is cheap. The client side does all of the heavy lifting but you'll probably need things like accurate time, which you can get by rendering pages using NGINX SSI module to render server time on pages. Obviously this won't stop some users from manipulating this information maliciously so you have to be careful what you use and where. Naming this thing was always amusing to me though -- I'd been working with clients to switch from WP to essentially JAMstack years before it was ever named anything. Then suddenly I', in the JAMstack business.
  • ridings 5y ago
    This is the way. Define a problem and then find a solution. Don’t look at Jamstack and then hunt for problems!