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Panel



AJ O’Neal


Chris Ferdinandi


Charles Max Wood



Joined by special guest: Phil Hawksworth and Divya Sasidharan

Episode Summary

This episode features special guests Philip Hawksworth and Divya Sasidharan. Phil lives just outside of London and Divya lives in Chicago, and both of them work for Netlify. Divya is also a regular on the Devchat show Views on Vue. The panelists begin by discussing what JAMstack is. JAM stands for JavaScript, API, and Markup. It used to be known as the new name for static sites, but it’s much more than that. Phil talks about how dynamic ‘static’ sites really are. JAMstack sites range from very simple to very complex, Static is actually a misnomer. JAMstack makes making, deploying, and publishing as simple as possible.

The panelists discuss the differences between building your own API and JAMstack and how JavaScript fits into the JAMstack ecosystem. They talk about keys and secrets in APIs and the best way to handle credentials in a static site. There are multiple ways to handle it, but Netlify has some built in solutions. All you have to do is write your logic for what you want your function to do and what packages you want included in it, they do all the rest. Every deployment you make stays there, so you can always roll back to a previous version.

Charles asks about how to convert a website that’s built on a CMS to a static site and some of the tools available on Netlify. They finish by discussing different hangups on migrating platforms for things like Devchat (which is built on WordPress) and the benefits of switching servers.

Links



API


React


JAMstack


CMS (content management system)


CDM (Customer Data Management)


Markup


UI (User Interface)


Jekyll


Progressive Enhancement


11ty


Hugo


React Static


Gatsby


Vue


AWS


AWS Lambda


Azure


Markdown


WordPress


Zapier


Stefan Baumgartner article


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Picks

AJ O’Neal:



Prince Ali Ababwa (Aladdin)


Node v.10.12



Chris Ferdinandi:



Bouncer


Philip Morgan Consulting


Jonathan Stark Consulting



Charles Max Wood:



Mastadon Social


Thanksgiving turkey



Phil Hawksworth:



Dripping (solidified meat drippings spread on toast)


They Shall Not Grow Old



Divya Sasidharan:



Fear, Trust, and JavaScript


Women’s Pockets Are Inferior


Debt: A Love Story


Special Guests: Divya Sasidharan and Phil Hawksworth.