The Jamstack Book: Beyond static sites with JavaScript, APIs, and markup

The Jamstack Book is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to developing standards-based static websites using JavaScript, APIs, and standard HTML markup

Building websites with simple, straightforward standards can feel like a breath of fresh air. Jamstack sites use JavaScript, APIs, and Markup to create fast, dynamic pages without the overhead of heavyweight frameworks. The Jamstack Book is your essential guide to this exciting new web architecture.

The Jamstack Book is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to developing standards-based static websites using JavaScript, APIs, and standard HTML markup. In each chapter, you’ll build a new project, creating a portfolio of Jamstack-architecture sites that range from a simple blog to an eCommerce store. You’ll learn how to lay out and generate a site, deploy to the cloud, and add dynamic features like user logins and search functionality. Along the way, you’ll try out a variety of lightweight tools, including Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy, and Netlify. By the time you’re finished, you’ll be ready to build fast and secure static sites and migrate your existing websites to Jamstack!