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jamstack needs a new name
What Should Static Site Generators Be Called? The world needed a term for the things that we think of now as “Jamstack,” so I’m not a bit sorry that Netlify cooked it up. But even as it was coined, what was actually out there didn’t fit the term. Some of the front-running static site generators…
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Headless CMS Options: ContentStack
I got a chance to look at another one of the major headless CMS (hCMS—the ‘h’ is decapitated) contenders, namely ContentStack. In a world where it’s hard to tell one hCMS from another, a couple of ContentStack’s differentiators are what it calls ‘modular blocks,’ an intuitive setup for managing multi-language environments, and ‘environments’ that allow…
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GatsbyConf 2021 brings new 3.0 version and new images
Latest revision: March 4, 2021 The online virtual GatsbyConf, which kicked off today, announced at least six significant updates, including a 3.0 release of Gatsby itself; a new component that goes beyond the already savvy Gatsby-sharp handling images used within Gatsby sites; and the addition of a CDN service (in partnership with Fastly) to the…
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The Core Web Vitals Report
Nobody loves a report more than I do.
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TheJam.dev Day Two: Looks at Angular+Jamstack, Github Founder’s Take
Key among the events at the second day of the Jam.Dev online event was the concluding “fireside chat” with RedwoodJS creator and Github founder Tom Preston-Warner, in which Preston-Warner imagined a more full-stack edge architecture, something he is working on RedwoodJS to create. (Coverage of day one is here.) Moderator Brian Rinaldi, developer advocate at…
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TheJam.dev 2021 kicks off with azure and ecommerce
Today was the first day of a two-day Jam.Dev event online. The event had a lot to offer people who are presently trying to sort out the lay of the land in the static site generator ecosystem. The Azure Take on Static Shmuela Jacobs, cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, walked through the Static Web App…
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It’s Raining Headless CMS Systems
There are two competing dynamics in the world of JAMstack. First, there’s the idea that JAMstack is the approach of choice for creating lots of different applications, beginning with marketing sites that are essentially just five pages (about, contact, products, solutions, resources) and continuing on to blogs, and from there to sites that are interactive,…
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CMS Market Share
To hear some people talk, you’d think WordPress was in some danger of being rapidly overtaken by JAMstack alternatives (though it’s not entirely clear that JAMstack is the right thing to call them). It’s good self-discipline to periodically take a look at the relative CMS market share among current competitors, where it’s true that WordPress…
