Welcome to the JAMstack

21 Sep 2022 - B-rad

In 2016 Mathias Billmann presented the idea of using client side Javascript , APIs and Markdown at an Smashing Con 2016. This idea of decoupling backend and empowering the front end developers was revolutionary. Since than, the Jamstack has matured and is coming to its own. An developer can build blogs, small to medium business site, even complex enteprise ecommerce archetitecture around its principles. The flexibility to make your grandmas blog 11ty and add an headless cms Sanity, throw on an shopping cart with Snipcart, charge with stripeStripe to make some dough from her macrame. Seems like a great series for this blog, stay tuned for grandmas macrame shop.

My blog will morph and it’s voice will change. My posts might not be frequent but I’ll try give quality. I work in ecommerce and spend my time developing whatever my design and marketing departments desire. Current themes will be front end, jamstack and general web development topics that I find interesting. The themes can and will change, I read and get inspired from smashing magazine,freecodecamp videos, Sir Wes Bos, tldr and the jamstack newsletters . It’s a wonderful time to be a front end developer so let’s learn and grow together.

“A modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup” — Mathias Biilmann (CEO & Co-founder of Netlify).

All started by this presentation:

Credit for Video: SmashingConf San Francisco 2016 - Mathias Biilmann: The New Front-end Stack. Javascript, APIs and Markup from Smashing Magazine on Vimeo.

💖 Brad