Introduction to Jamstack

INTRODUCTION TO JAMSTACK PHIL HAWKSWORTH

y n a m e r a e r the APPROACHES TO DELIVERING WEBSITES

ASK FOR STUFF

ASK FOR STUFF GET STUFF

ASK FOR STUFF DO STUFF GET STUFF

LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

CDN LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

IT GOT COMPLICATED

y l i k c u l but WE’VE BEEN LEARNING AND BUILDING NEW TOOLS

BROWSERS GOT MORE CAPABLE PROCESSES MATURED TOOLING IMPROVED

WHAT IS THE JAMSTACK?

s e o d t a h w k c a t s jam s e o d t a h w k c a t s jam STAND FOR? MEAN?

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c sta the layers of technology which deliver your web site or application

s e o d t a h w k c a t s jam s e o d t a h w k c a t s jam STAND FOR? MEAN?

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

STACKS FOR DAYZ AN / LAMP / MAMP / XAMP / ROR / WISA / MEA WISA / MEAN / LAMP / MAMP / XAMP / ROR /

LAMPSTACK

APACHE PHP HTTP ROUTING AND SERVING PREPROCESSING MYSQL DATA ACCESS LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM WEB SERVER

JAMSTACK

APIs JAVASCRIPT DATA ACCESS RUNTIME MARKUP BROWSER STATIC SERVER / CDN HTTP ROUTING AND SERVING

k c a t s m ja PRE-RENDERED LEVERAGE THE BROWSER WITHOUT A WEBSERVER

APACHE PHP MYSQL LINUX WEB SERVER WITH JAMSTACK THE STACK HAS MOVED UP A LEVEL TO THE BROWSER APIs JAVASCRIPT MARKUP BROWSER

ASK FOR STUFF GET STUFF

BAKE, DON’T FRY – Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000404

r o f s e v i t o m PRE-RENDERING

DOING THE WORK NOW, SO YOUR SERVERS DON’T HAVE TO LATER

PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THE COMPLEXITY AND THE USER

n a c s i th SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENTS

l a n o i it d a r t CDN LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

k c a t s m ja CDN

r o F VERSION CONTROL EVERYTHING

JAMSTACK ADVANTAGES SECURITY PERFORMANCE SCALE

SECURITY

A GREATLY REDUCED SURFACE AREA

l a n o i it d a r t k c a t s m ja CDN LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

FAR FEWER MOVING PARTS TO ATTACK

PERFORMANCE

TRADITIONAL STACKS ADD STATIC LAYERS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE

CACHING

l a n o i it d a r t k c a t s m ja CDN LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

SCALE

TRADITIONAL STACKS ADD INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO SCALE

l a n o i it d a r t k c a t s m ja CDN LOAD BALANCER WEB SERVERS DB SERVERS

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ASK FOR STUFF GET STUFF

y l i k c u l but WE’VE BEEN LEARNING AND BUILDING NEW TOOLS

s r e l b a en STATIC SITE GENERATORS TOOLING AN AUTOMATION BROWSER CAPABILITIES SERVICES AND THE API ECONOMY

wh 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ? e k a m e w l l i w at SIMPLY A STATIC SITE (32:14) JAVASCRIPT TO RENDER CONTENT (40:40) TEMPLATING AND ABSTRACTION WITH A STATIC SITE GENERATOR (52:21) CONTENT SOURCED FROM AN API AT BUILD TIME (1:24:09) LOCALISED CONTENT RENDERED AT BUILD TIME, ROUTED AT THE CDN (2:02:17 CLIENT-SIDE RENDER OF TARGETED CONTENT WITH BROWSER AND CONTENT APIS (2:28:08) BONUS: HOW TO GRADUALLY INTRODUCE THE JAMSTACK TO YOUR EXISTING INFRA (3:19:50)

EXAMPLE NUMBER 1 - ALL STATIC FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX1

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK ! p ye

EXAMPLE NUMBER 2 - ADDING JAVASCRIPT FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX2

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

RENDERING

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME)

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME)

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME)

BROWSER WEBSERVER DATABASE MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME)

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT GENERATE MARKUP AT BUILD TIME SO THAT IT IS READY TO TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT WHEN NEEDED

BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT GENERATE MARKUP AT BUILD TIME SO THAT IT IS READY TO TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT WHEN NEEDED

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK ! p ye

EXAMPLE NUMBER 3 - BUILDING WITH AN SSG FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX3

PREREQUISITES GIT INSTALLED (FREE) GITHUB ACCOUNT (FREE) NODEJS INSTALLED (FREE) NETLIFY ACCOUNT (FREE) NODEJS.ORG NETLIFY.COM GIT-SCM.COM GITHUB.COM

BROWSER WEBSERVER DATABASE MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE

BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT GENERATE MARKUP AT BUILD TIME SO THAT IT IS READY TO TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT WHEN NEEDED

BUILD AUTOMATION a g n usi STATIC SITE GENERATOR

HOW TO CHOOSE? t h g i r e h t SSG

STATICGEN.COM

LANGUAGE WORKFLOW PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE OUTPUT CONTROL ADOPTION

OUR SSG FOR TODAY ELEVENTY 👋

WHY ELEVENTY? LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE FLEXIBLE TEMPLATING NOTHING YOU DON’T ASK FOR JAVASCRIPT ALL THE WAY DOWN

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK ! p ye

EXAMPLE NUMBER 4 - BUILDING WITH DATA FROM AN API FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX4

BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

USE DATA IN OUR SSG 2. REQUEST DATA FROM AND API 3. GET DATA IN DEV AND IN OUR DEPLOYMENTS

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

PERSONALIZATION

BROWSER WEBSERVER DATABASE MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE

s c i t sta s r o t a r e n e g ite APPLY STRUCTURED DATA TO TEMPLATES IN ORDER TO CREATE VIEWS AND ASSETS

BROWSER WEBSERVER DATABASE MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

UNIVERSAL PERSONALIZED

UNIVERSAL LOCALIZED TARGETED PERSONALIZED

s r e l b a n e AUTOMATION TOOLS & SERVICES THE API ECONOMY

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

BROWSER WEBSERVER DATABASE MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE

BROWSER CDN WEBSERVER MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME BUILD / UPDATE DATABASE

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

EXAMPLE NUMBER 5 - GENERATING LOCALIZED CONTENT FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX5

GENERATE VIEWS FOR MANY LOCALES 2. ROUTE TRAFFIC AT THE CDN 3. GENERATE OUR CDN CONFIG

UNIVERSAL LOCALIZED TARGETED PERSONALIZED

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK ! p ye

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT GENERATE MARKUP AT BUILD TIME SO THAT IT IS READY TO TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT WHEN NEEDED

DATA SOURCE BROWSER CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

DATA SOURCES BROWSER API CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING 2. CLIENT-SIDE API CALLS 3. BROWSER APIS 4. SERVERLESS APIS …USING PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT

PROGRESSIVE ENHANCEMENT 1. DECIDE ON WHAT IS CRITICAL TO THE EXPERIENCE 2. DELIVER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE USING A LITTLE AS POSSIBLE 3. DETECT SUPPORTED FEATURES AND ENHANCE WHERE POSSIBLE

EXAMPLE NUMBER 6 - CLIENT-SIDE API CALLS FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX6

DATA SOURCES BROWSER API CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

CLIENT-SIDE RENDERING JAVASCRIPT IN THE BROWSER MANIPULATES THE DOM SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (REQUEST TIME) SERVER-SIDE RENDERING (BUILD TIME) GENERATE MARKUP ON REQUEST IN THE SERVER AND TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT GENERATE MARKUP AT BUILD TIME SO THAT IT IS READY TO TRANSMIT TO THE CLIENT WHEN NEEDED

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

WAS THAT JAMSTACK? A QUICK SENSE CHECK ! p ye

TIME a r o f RECAP

? e k a m e w d i d t a wh 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. SIMPLY A STATIC SITE JAVASCRIPT TO RENDER CONTENT TEMPLATING AND ABSTRACTION WITH A STATIC SITE GENERATOR CONTENT SOURCED FROM AN API AT BUILD TIME LOCALISED CONTENT RENDERED AT BUILD TIME, ROUTED AT THE CDN CLIENT-SIDE RENDER OF TARGETED CONTENT WITH BROWSER AND CONTENT APIS

k c a t s m ja JAVASCRIPT / API / MARKUP

k c a t s m a j Fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN, removing the requirement to manage or run web servers.

EASIER TO REASON ABOUT

DATA SOURCES BROWSER API CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

s r e l b a n e AUTOMATION TOOLS & SERVICES THE API ECONOMY

THE GROWING ECOSYSTEM OF TOOLS AND SERVICES MOVES US BEYOND STATIC

https://medium.com/memory-leak/the-jamstack-its-pretty-sweet-e0834e4e6bb7

… t bu HOW DO WE GET THERE?

LET’S NOT TRY TO BOIL THE OCEAN https://unsplash.com/photos/0_UvKStn3iQ

THE FIRST STEP NEED NOT BE A GIANT LEAP https://unsplash.com/photos/wKlqqfNTLsI

DATA SOURCES BROWSER API CDN MARKUP JAVASCRIPT APIS REQUEST TIME BUILD TIME API BUILD

RESOURCES FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX1 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX2 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX3 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX4 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX5 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / EX6 FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / FCC FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / BOOK FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / SLACK

FINDTHAT.AT / JAMSTACK / FCC THANKS @PHILHAWKSWORTH