The JAMstack, and everything else, defined. π
JAMstack: JavaScript, APIs, and Markup - A new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
CMS: Content Management System - An application that supports the modeling, creation, and service of content.
API: Application Programming Interface - A software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other.
REST: Representational State Transfer - A set of rules that developers follow when they create their API.
Static Site: A website built with HTML that has fixed content on each page.
SSG: Static Site Generator - An application that takes your site content, applies it to templates, and generates a structure of purely static HTML files ready to be delivered to visitors.
CDN: Content Delivery Network - A geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.
E-Commerce: Electronic Commerce - The buying and selling of goods or services using the internet, and the transfer of money and data to execute these transactions.
Web Form: An HTML form on a web page that lets visitors enter their information.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language - The standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
Markup: A system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets - A style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.
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