Let's keep talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A recap of the JAMstack posts from the second week of our 2020 JAMuary series.
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Talking about JAMstack, this JAMuary
A review of the JAMstack post from the first week of JAMuary this year.
Top 15 from 2019: features, resources, and news on Netlify and the JAMstack
Netlify's 2019 year in review - see the Top 15 highlights ranging from new features, products, resources, conferences, and continued growth of the JAMstack community.
Building an Angular Jamstack App with Scully
A getting started guide to using the Angular static site generator, Scully.
What are Microservices?
Let's break down what we mean when we talk about microservices.
News from the largest JAMstack conference yet
A rundown of just a few of the highlights from 2019's JAMstack conference in San Francisco.
What's Angular in the JAMstack? It Sounds Delicious!
A guide to the JAMstack through an Angular lens.
How I built jamstackthemes.dev over the weekend
Stackbit recently launched JAMstack Themes. It’s a free resource that lists hundreds of themes and starters for JAMstack sites. This post is a retrospective on how I built the site.
JAMstack conference, San Francisco 2019 - the JAMstack at scale
A look at some of the amazing content and speakers at the 2019 edition of JAMstack_conf in San Francisco
Netlify pro tip: Using Split Testing to power private beta releases
Tutorial and video: Use branch builds and split tests as a way to power opt-in private betas of your site's upcoming features.
O’Reilly publishes Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
"Modern Web Development on the JAMstack" by Matt Biilmann and Phil Hawksworth, published by O’Reilly and available to order or download.
JAMstack_conf NYC session recap: Citrix delivers better UX with less overhead using JAMstack and Netlify
At JAMstack_conf NYC in April 2019, Beth Pollock and Luis Ugarte of Citrix shared their journey from a legacy web management system to the JAMstack powered by Netlify, resulting in a 65% cost savings and a significantly improved user experience.
Featured site: Proxx. A site by Google Chrome Labs
An exploration into building games with web technologies, by the Google Chrome Labs team. Released and explained at Google I/O 2019, and hosted by Netlify.
Featured site: Tinkersynth
Tinkersynth - In-browser generative art that you'll want to hang on your wall.
Featured site: Curated
Curated is a searchable index of sites about web design. With sites suggested by the community it surfaces them through an elegant and performant interface.
Featured site: Nike - Just Do It
A campaign site from Nike, deployed and hosted as a JAMstack site with Netlify. With content from a headless CMS, and a Gatsby front-end.
Goodbye Medium — Kent C. Dodds
Kent C. Dodds explains why he migrated from Medium to his own JAMstack site, and shows us his approach to leaving no URL behind. Made possible by Netlify's redirects and serverless functions.
Featured site: Gridsome
A static site generator for the VueJS community. With a pre-generated site hosted on Netlify and optimised for performance.
Featured site: HTTP Toolkit
HTTP Toolkit's site is hosted on Netlify and uses Netlify Functions, Sentry, and Paddle for the accounts and purchasing flows.
Featured site: Synthetic
Synthetic: A Spotify-powered, data-driven music discovery tool. Deployed by Netlify.
Ghost on the JAMstack
Ghost CMS embrace the JAMstack and announce their move to being a decoupled CMS
Featured site: Raspberry Pi Projects
A multilingual site showcasing an extensive repository of projects to help people get started building and coding with their Raspberry Pi computers.
Featured site: Squoosh.app
An impressive example of a progressive web application which demonstrates both performance and power in the browser.
Featured site: Hopper
Hopper's excellent multilingual JAMstack site, hosted on Netlify
Deploying Netlify Sites with AWS CloudFormation
How to deploy Netlify sites with AWS Cloudformation, SAM, and the Serverless Framework
Contentful and GitHub help make JAMstack_Conf a reality
GitHub and Contentful bring so much to JAMstack_Conf as the platinum sponsors. Here's why.
This October: Attend The First-Ever JAMstack_conf
October 29th–30th 2018 brings the premier event to learn how to design, develop, and deploy fast, modern web projects that run without web servers.
The top 10 SSGs of 2018, according to StaticGen and GitHub
Our annual look at the top 10 static site generators according to their popularity on GitHub.
10 static site generators and popular uses for them in 2018
An exploration of some of popular static site generators and a little help with finding the right tool to use on your next project.
Five Key Benefits of "Going Serverless"
What "serverless" truly means for developers and 5 characteristics that define a serverless application
How to setup serverless OAuth Flows with Netlify Functions & Intercom
This tutorial demonstrates how to build OAuth flow with Intercom, simple-outh2 and Netlify Functions
The Reign of Static Site Generators 👑
Here’s our take on the history of static site generators, current trends, and where we see them heading moving forward (spoiler alert: look for serverless functions and headless CMSs to push the category forward).
Building Serverless CRUD apps with Netlify Functions & FaunaDB
This tutorial demonstrates how to build a CRUD backend using Netlify serverless functions and FaunaDB as the datastore.
Deploy a free Gatsby, Hugo, or Eleventy website template in 30 seconds
We’ve started a collection of quick-start website project templates. Whether you're looking for a free Gatsby blog template or a Gulp build pipeline, we've got easy options to deploy them for free in 30 seconds.
Ep. #26, Video and Image Optimization with Cloudinary
In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian and Ben are joined by Cloudinary’s Robert Moseley to discuss how his and other developer tools can help free up a lot of bandwidth taken up by poorly optimized videos and images.
Ep. #24, Server-Side Rendering with Postmates
In Ep. #24 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Trey Huffine, software engineer at Postmates, an on-demand delivery service based in San Francisco. The pair discusses the pros and cons of server-side rendering and the joys of React. Stick around for the latest picks!
Open source Netlify CMS hits 1.0, bringing Git-based content management to static sites everywhere
The open source Netlify CMS has hit 1.0, with the release of an editor-friendly UI and general improvements that yield greater stability and usability.
Coding Modern Websites with the JAMstack, Part 1
Explore how to build a client-side application using modern tooling for a restaurant serving a modern cuisine. We will accomplish this using the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can play around with the live version at tasty.netlify.com.
JAMstack vs Isomorphic Server Side Rendering
The JAMstack runs against all that is Isomorphic JavaScript. It encourages the separation of code between your client and your API while leveraging the use of microservices. At the core, if your site is serving static content, it is exposing your site to fewer vulnerabilities. Sites are …
JAMstack, Netlify CMS, and 10x-ing Smashing Magazine
Matt Biilmann and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.
Top Ten Static Site Generators of 2017
In this countdown, we will review the top ten static website generators of 2017 so far.
Accessibility on the Modern Web
Explore tips, tools, and best practices on accessibility on the modern web.
Ep. #10, Learning JavaScript with Free Code Camp
Discuss Free Code Camp’s ‘self study together’ approach that has grown their community
Why You Don't Need Cloudflare with Netlify
Cloudflare can do lots of great things for websites, but Netlify's features can make a pairing of the two redundant.
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
There was a modern web renaissance taking place and Smashing planned to be a part of it. After learning their site could be 6x faster if they took advantage of a global CDN, Smashing made the decision to choose the JAMstack and partnered with Netlify to get the job done.
Ep. #9, Shifting WordPress to the JAMstack
In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Daniel Olson, Lead Developer at J2 Design and Shinichi Nishikawa, WordPress enthusiast and key reviewer in WordPress.org’s Theme Review Team.
Ep. #8, Isomorphic Rendering in the JAMstack
A chat on isomorphic rendering in the JAMstack and the staggering performance improvements.
Ep. #7, DraftJS & Rich Text Editing On The Web
In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian Douglas and Mathias Biilmann of Netlify are joined by Serverless’ Nik Graf, co-creator of DraftJS Plugins. On the agenda for this discussion is the emergence of new and better rich-text editors, and how React has changed the game for front-end …
Ep. #6, Style Guides at Airbnb
In the sixth episode of JAMstack Radio, Netlify’s Brian Douglas and Cassandra Salisbury are joined by Airbnb Frontend Engineer Harrison Shoff for a discussion on linters, what makes for a good style guide and why they are so important for growing engineering teams.
Ep. #5, GraphQL at GitHub
We sat down with Kyle Daigle, manager on the API team at GitHub to chat about how they implement GraphQL into their API at GitHub.