1 Why Jamstack?
Chapter 1 from The Jamstack Book by Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi
This chapter covers:
- The Jamstack is more of an architecture or methodology for building web applications than a prescriptive stack of technologies.
- Jamstack initially formed in response to dynamic web page development that many felt had become cumbersome, slow and insecure.
- The Jamstack architecture offers a number of benefits including page speed, security and cost.
- While they can be difficult to identify, many well-known web sites are already built with the Jamstack
As Jamstack has gained popularity in recent years, a common criticism lobbed at it is that it is just a marketing term. The truth is, that they are right. As we’ll explore, Jamstack was a term invented to “rebrand” an architecture many developers were already using to build sites because the existing terminology had become misleading. While calling it marketing may be a fair critique, Jamstack is still a way of building sites that has been gaining rapid adoption by web developers.