E18 | A Conversation about JAMStack | Brian Rinaldi

Headless { Creator Podcast }

In this episode I chat all about JAMstack with my guest Brian Rinaldi, a developer advocate at Stackbit who focuses on helping developers build Jamstack apps.

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background. How did you become a developer?
  
• How did you get into JAMStack?
  
• Since you worked with Adobe, did you work at all with ColdFusion?
  
• What is StackBit and what do you do there?
  
• Tell us about your book on Static Site Generators.
  
• Define JAMStack. What is it?
  
• Is JAMStack a framework or a technical architecture?
  
• What is Netlify and what is its involvement with JAMStack?
  
• Is JAMStack mainly client side?
  
• How would an example Login page work with JAMStack?
  
• In a JAMStack app, where do you normally keep the API keys?
  
• What makes JAMStack different from other type of technical architectures?
  
• What's the relationship between Netlify, Gatsby and JAMStack?
  
• What's NextJS and how does it compare to Gatsby?
  
• Explain what Jekyll, Hugo and Pelican are?
  
• What are some positives of JAMStack?
  
• What are some challenges with JAMStack?
  
• What are some good cases for JAMStack?
  
• What are some cases where you would not use JAMStack?
  
• How do you make JAMStack scalable?
  
• Guide us through a JAMStack application workflow.
  
• How is GIT involved in a JAMStack application?
  
• Does JAMStack support GraphQL?
  
• Can you deploy to your own local server?
  
• Can you tell us about configuration files in a JAMStack app?
  
• What about template files and template languages?
  
• Can you use TypeScript in JAMStack?
  
• What's Node's place in a JAMStack app?
  
• What do developers need to know to start developing JAMStack apps?
  
• What are some good resources for JAMStack development?
  

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Reference Links

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• Working with Static Sites Book (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-with-static/9781491960936/)
  
• Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/)
  
• Hugo (https://gohugo.io/)
  
• Pelican (https://www.fullstackpython.com/pelican.html)
  
• JAMStack.org (https://jamstack.org/)
  
• SnipCart JAMstack Article (https://snipcart.com/blog/jamstack)
  
• JAMStack WTF (https://jamstack.wtf/)
  
• Stackbit (https://www.stackbit.com/)
  
• Brian’s JAMStack Email List (https://jamstack.email/)
  
• Brian’s Twitter Profile (https://twitter.com/remotesynth)