In this episode I chat all about JAMstack with my guest Brian Rinaldi, a developer advocate at Stackbit who focuses on helping developers build Jamstack apps.
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Questions Asked
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- Tell us about your background. How did you become a developer?
- How did you get into JAMStack?
- Since you worked with Adobe, did you work at all with ColdFusion?
- What is StackBit and what do you do there?
- Tell us about your book on Static Site Generators.
- Define JAMStack. What is it?
- Is JAMStack a framework or a technical architecture?
- What is Netlify and what is its involvement with JAMStack?
- Is JAMStack mainly client side?
- How would an example Login page work with JAMStack?
- In a JAMStack app, where do you normally keep the API keys?
- What makes JAMStack different from other type of technical architectures?
- What's the relationship between Netlify, Gatsby and JAMStack?
- What's NextJS and how does it compare to Gatsby?
- Explain what Jekyll, Hugo and Pelican are?
- What are some positives of JAMStack?
- What are some challenges with JAMStack?
- What are some good cases for JAMStack?
- What are some cases where you would not use JAMStack?
- How do you make JAMStack scalable?
- Guide us through a JAMStack application workflow.
- How is GIT involved in a JAMStack application?
- Does JAMStack support GraphQL?
- Can you deploy to your own local server?
- Can you tell us about configuration files in a JAMStack app?
- What about template files and template languages?
- Can you use TypeScript in JAMStack?
- What's Node's place in a JAMStack app?
- What do developers need to know to start developing JAMStack apps?
- What are some good resources for JAMStack development?
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