I asked my CTO today: What would you say is your biggest barrier, technical or otherwise, to building more sites using the JAMstack architecture? He replied: Our in-app sites are not due to the following: No need for SEO since they are behind a login wall. Pure Vue.js SPA is more flexible than…

I think a lot of the JAMstack articles I’ve read are too high-level. They read like marketing speak. Here’s the best intro to JAMstack I’ve seen. It both concrete and easy-to-follow

Hi, @maxhodges ! A pure Vue.js SPA actually is a Jamstack app — there’s no requirement to use something like Gridsome for a site to take advantage of the benefits of the Jamstack. What makes a Jamstack app a “Jamstack app” is: 1. It’s composed of static assets — there’s no server-rendering step th…

Thanks @jlengstorf a pure Vue.js SPA actually is a Jamstack app But we have a node server. Jamstack.org writes: Any project that relies on a tight coupling between client and server is not built with the Jamstack. Also, the M is for “Markup”, so JAMstack apps are expected to download most…

As you pointed out, a JAMstack setup is decoupled frontend + backend pre-rendered static assets served from a CDN. A Vue application can be considered JAMstack on the condition that templates are not being rendered on the backend. If your Vue application uses server side JS to load content, then …

Now I’m more confused than ever. You’re saying the app can depend on a web server. The jamstack.org site explicitly says the lack of a web server is the common factor: The thing that they all have in common is that they don’t depend on a web server. I’m not sure what to believe. The writing a…

One of the things the JAMstack advocates for is the decoupling of frontend and backend, so the lack of dependence on a server alludes more to that i.e. templates are not compiled on the server at run time, they are instead pre-compiled at build time. To pull a quote from the jamstack.org site: Fas…

[image] divya: JAMstack never claims that everything should run on the CDN… . . . There is therefore never an expectation that everything should be on the CDN to be considered JAMstack. It really does say “Entire Project on a CDN”. So it seems we all acknowledge that isn’t the best copywriti…

this is also a great explainer [image] Adding dynamic content to statically generated sites (JAMStack) The different approaches to add dynamic content to statically generated sites with JAMStack.

[image] maxhodges: Basically, JAMstack apps are not accessing MongoDb and SQL directly (which is why I don’t see SQL or MongoDB in any of those JAMstacks.) You need to wrap the database behind an API, or use Firebase or some service that exposes the data store as a REST or GraphQL endpoint. Is t…

in practice we found this to be true There’s still a place for static sites on the web, but it’s shrinking, not growing, and likely still the domain of developer portfolios and side-projects. Sure, it’s possible to engineer a workflow in 2020 that manages to smoosh together a set of disparate 3rd …

Technology is just a tool; if our vision doesn’t match yours, you are definitely not obligated to agree with us or any opinion. We have our vision and we’re sticking to it, and some will not be interested in coming along, and that’s nobody being wrong, just people having different tastes and codeb…

Are we wrong to avoid JAM stack?

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this is also a great explainer

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