It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Here’s an outstanding idea from Max Böck. He’s created a boilerplate project for building websites that fit within a single HTTP request. This is extremely important for websites that contain critical information for public safety. As Max writes:
… Read article “Emergency Website Kit”In cases of emergency, many organizations need a quick way to publish critical information. But exisiting (CMS) websites are often unable to handle sudden spikes in traffic.
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.
Using Vue, Nuxt, axios, and Netlify, it’s possible to get both the performance and continuous integration benefits of Jamstack with the powerful publishing and editing features of a CMS. It’s really … Read article “How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The Jamstack”
This article is based on Brian’s presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download.
In my experience, developers generally find the benefits of the JAMstack easy to comprehend. Sites are faster because the resources are static and served from a CDN. Sites are more secure because there is no framework, application server or database to compromise. Development and deployment can be optimized because all of the pieces that make up … Read article “JAMstack CMSs Have Finally Grown Up!”
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts.
I think those classifications are handy, and help conversations along. But there is a point where nuance is necessary and these classification buckets get a little leaky. … Read article “JAMstack Tools and The Spectrum of Classification”
If you’re getting started with static site generators, did you know you can use GitHub template repositories to quickly start new projects and reduce your setup time?… Read article “Using GitHub Template Repos to Jump-Start Static Site Projects”
Let’s attempt to coin a term here: “Static Form Provider.” You bring your HTML <form></form>, but don’t worry about the back-end processing that makes it work. There are a lot of these services out there!
Static Form Providers do all tasks like validating, storing, sending notifications, and integrating with other APIs. It’s lovely when you can delegate big responsibilities like this. The cost? Typically a monthly or annual subscription, except for a few providers and limited plans. The cost … Read article “A Comparison of Static Form Providers”
In about 10 minutes, we’ll set up a workflow that makes static sites dead simple.… Read article “Fast Static Sites with Netlify and AnyMod”
In September 2018, I was just a few months into my journey of learning web development. As I’m sure is the case with many new developers, it was a big task for me to learn not only the basic skills required, but also keeping current with the fast-moving industry. Just as I was getting to the level where it felt as though I could build a simple website, I started to realize that it was only the first step.
Opening … Read article “A Beginner’s Journey to Launching a Website”
I see VuePress just went 1.0. Explained simply, it’s a static site generator based on Vue. But of course, you work in Vue, which means you work in components.
All the modern JavaScript frameworks are component-based. Even when they disagree with each other about specific things (like how Svelte requires compilation), they all seem to agree on the model of working in components. React is all components. A popular static site generator for React is Next.js. … Read article “Components, yo.”
I created a website called The Power of Serverless for Front-End Developers over at thepowerofserverless.info a little while back while I was learning about that whole idea. I know a little more now but still have an endless amount to learn. Still, I felt like it was time to revamp that site a bit.
For one thing, just like our little conferences website, the new site is a subdomain of this very site:
https://serverless.css-tricks.com/… Read article “The Power of Serverless v2.0! (Now an Open-Source Gatsby Site Hosted on Netlify)”