What is Jamstack?
The short answer
Jamstack is an approach to building sites from pre-rendered pages served by a CDN, with dynamic features added through JavaScript and APIs.
Jamstack, explained
The name came from JavaScript, APIs and Markup. The ideas (pre-render what you can, call services for the rest) now underpin most modern frameworks.
Questions people ask about Jamstack
What is Jamstack?
Jamstack is an approach to building sites from pre-rendered pages served by a CDN, with dynamic features added through JavaScript and APIs.
Related terms
A static site is made of pre-built HTML files served the same way to every visitor, which makes it fast, cheap to host and hard to break.
CDNA CDN is a network of servers around the world that keeps copies of a site's files and serves each visitor from the location nearest to them.
Headless CMSA headless CMS stores and manages content but has no front-end of its own; it delivers content through an API to any site, app or device.
Next.jsNext.js is a React framework for building websites and web apps, adding routing, server rendering, static generation and API routes on top of React.
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