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E18 | A Conversation about JAMStack | Brian Rinaldi


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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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    Reference Links

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    • Working with Static Sites Book (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-with-static/9781491960936/)
    • Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/)
    • Hugo (https://gohugo.io/)
    • Pelican (https://www.fullstackpython.com/pelican.html)
    • JAMStack.org (https://jamstack.org/)
    • SnipCart JAMstack Article (https://snipcart.com/blog/jamstack)
    • JAMStack WTF (https://jamstack.wtf/)
    • Stackbit (https://www.stackbit.com/)
    • Brian’s JAMStack Email List (https://jamstack.email/)
    • Brian’s Twitter Profile (https://twitter.com/remotesynth)
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