CategoryJamstack

November 19, 2021 — Hosting with a wildcard subdomain enables your users to visit your site on any subdomain of your domain (*.example.com), and as you can imagine, we can use this to create unique user experiences which we’ll be exploring in this article through a Next.js lens. Read more…

August 31, 2021 — By combining some React APIs, we can accurately manage “simple” states. With Next.js though, we can quickly find situations where we need to accommodate many other requirements. Let’s have a look at some patterns to accomplish all that. Read more…

August 20, 2021 — The story of Jamstack CMSs goes all the way back to the 90s. In this article, we take a trip down memory lane to see how we got to the modern Jamstack CMSs we have today, and where they’re heading in the next decade. Read more…

June 29, 2021 — Static Generation is great for performance — until the app gets too big and build-times go through the roof. Today, we’ll have a look at how Netlify’s fresh On-Demand Builders can fix that. Read more…

May 3, 2021 — Web-oriented databases, frameworks like Nuxt and Next.js, and even frameworkless approaches are evolving the Jamstack, but the core principles are more powerful than ever. Read more…

April 21, 2021 — Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) is a new evolution of the Jamstack, allowing you to update static content instantly without needing a full rebuild of your site. The hybrid approach of Next.js allows you to use ISR for e-commerce, marketing pages, blog posts, ad-backed media, and more. Read more…

April 6, 2021 — With many options comes many decisions, and it is easy to drown in all the many benefits of headless CMS. How do we approach evaluating these options? Let’s figure it out. Read more…

March 23, 2021 — One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. In this article, we explore what headless means, use cases for it, and how to decide if headless is a good fit for you. Read more…

November 17, 2020 — We’re asking what it looks like to dogfood the Jamstack at Netlify. Can you deploy an entire app to a CDN? Drew McLellan talks to Netlify Staff Engineer Leslie Cohn-Wein to find out. Read more…

June 9, 2020 — In this article, we’ll start with a simple demo by ingesting and posting data to FaunaDB and then extend that functionality in a full-fledged app using Auth0, FaunaDB’s Token system and User-Defined Functions. Read more…