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What is JAMstack?

In today’s fast-forward web development landscape, new technologies and methods are popping up all the time, promising faster, better, and safer ways to create websites. One such methodology that’s becoming increasingly popular is Jamstack.

JAMstack stands for JavaScript, API, and Markup, but it’s not a particular technology or framework. Instead, it’s a modern web architecture that moves away from the server-centric model and towards a distributed, decoupled approach.

The Evolution of Jamstack:

The history of Jamstack goes back to the beginning of web development. Back then, developers were looking for ways to make websites faster, safer, and more responsive. As JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular grew in popularity, developers started looking for new ways to use client-side rendering to create faster, more dynamic web experiences.

Innovators of the Jamstack:

Back in the mid-to-late-2000s, some of the most prominent web development pioneers (Matt Biilmann, Chris Bach) coined the term “jamstack” and argued for a new approach to web development. Jamstack focused on the advantages of pre-building a website and serving it as a static file from a CDN (content delivery network), rather than creating pages dynamically on every request.

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