What is Jamstack?
A modern web architecture using JavaScript, APIs, and Markup for fast, secure sites
Why It Matters
Jamstack sites are fast, secure, and cheap to scale because they're pre-built and served from CDNs
Real-World Example
A marketing site built with Next.js, using APIs for forms, deployed on Vercel
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Related Terms
CDN
A network of servers around the world that stores copies of your content closer to users
Static Site
A website with pre-built pages that are the same for every visitor
SSG (Static Site Generation)
Building all pages at deploy time rather than on each request
Microservices
An architecture where an application is built as many small, independent services that work together
Monolith
An application where all features are built and deployed as a single unit
SSR (Server-Side Rendering)
Generating web pages on the server for each request, then sending complete HTML to the browser