What Is The Jamstack?

In this video, we will look at what the JAMstack entails

James Q Quick YouTube:

Auth0 YouTube:

James Quick's JAMstack Crash Course:

[Nyasha_Nziboi]

It would be nice to have some visuals to better explain some of the concepts

[tonimaunde]

Great explanation. Thank you both, Brad and James for the content.

[NoisYmenT]

"Jam a man of Fortune, and J must seek my fortune." - Henry Averies, 1994

[AkshaySharma-svyl]

Great video James!! Special thanks to Traversy Media for featuring James & other Youtubers. They all provide such good content but are underrated & should get more recognition🙏

James, I will definitely try your JAMStack Crash course to get some insight.

[AndreiMusicMan]

Long story short...if you're not using server-side rendering i.e. you use client-side routing you're doing JAMStack?

[islandman]

Interesting. I wrote a similar 'stack' early 2000 for performance reasons. I can see where this stack is very nice for large static sites where information doesn't change very often. Having said that, while cool and useful, I'm working in a single language (not js) stack that's the most productive environment I've ever worked in (almost zero runtime errors - if it builds, it works) and while I'll keep the concept of JAM in mind for possible efficiency improvements, we're still happy campers with a modified SAFE stack. Thanks for the info though!

[ashleysouffrant]

I've heard this term a lot of times but never knew what it was and 'till now it's mind bending. Thanks for the explanation!

P.S: I know you from Twitter !!

[odedejikehinde]

Thank you, I like the way you explained, you are a good teacher.

[JonibekJ]

I learned a lot from this guy. a lot of resources, new things

[alinademi]

I have always appreciated the content of this channel as well as Brad's neutral attitude towards different tools. I am also subscribed to James' channel.
It's good to be a JAM stack developer (I am one). insisting that it's better than WordPress every thirty second just because it's trend now (and throwing some random JAM stack cons at the end ...), is not fair.
James, your videos are good and I get the fact that digital products need such content creation too.

In terms of DX, WordPress can be developed using modern tooling (Webpack=code splitting, HMR, chunking, conditional asset loading..., WPCLI, Composer, Bedrock structure, sage...). Actually it was possible 4 years ago as well. Just because there are lousy devs out there using it or it can also be built no code, doesn't mean that the platform is bad, It means it is flexible.

Also continuous integration is possible with WordPress.

In terms of UX(I guess websites eventually are built for users not devs!!!), no other platform has been developed yet to be as flexible and easy for users than WordPress.
It also doesn't mean CMSs in the JAM stack world that are bad.

Cost? well, this one also WordPress wins.

In my case, I'd do my website using Nextjs but would still keep the backend WordPress with custom api endpoints for better WordPress api speed. Even without going headless with Next, WordPress is still flexible, it is ideal for 70% of use cases and not good for 30%.
In WordPress I recently made a brochure website for a client with 7 pages, 30kb css on front page as well as 10kb vanilla js with no jQuery. So it is possible. And she can have a blog later is she wants.
We must have a toolbox and choose per project.

[MrGreenpaulo]

I can't quite get an understanding from James' video. I think it needs some examples or visuals or something. I finish the video still clueless about the topic.

[alexkey]

Well pretty much: Headless cms with backend & front-end separated and hosted in different places. normally wp (hosted somewhere) & reactjs and nextjs or gatsby(ususally hosted in netlify or vercel)

[rohanjoshi]

Wow great information 👍👍👍, sir, can you make a crash course on Jam Stack
Love from Bharat 🇮🇳.

[ApoorvMote]

Thanks for explaining JAM in first 30 seconds because I have short attention span. Also I am sick and tired of updating lambda dependancies. I use stripe in 4 functions and stripe npm package is updated 5 times per week. I got to switch to lambda layers soon.

[vince-malou]

It looks quite the same to have a SPA website interacting with a backend, whether it's an external service (auth0) or your own backend service, even if you maintain the backend, you are in the same situation no? a JamStack, at the front is still static (SPA). API are maintained either by your or a third service. You still need Backend somewhere

[Armbreakfire]

Digging that Space Jam Stack poster in the background!

[narcissisticnarcissus]

JAM stack, headless CMSs (especially Strapi) and React Native lack proper content on YouTube.

[hamzahmd_]

I know James Q Quick because of JAMStack.

[dmiradakis]

You are AWESOME! Thanks so much! I LOVE the JAMStack, I’ve been teaching myself web development for about a year now.

[denniszenanywhere]

Good points. What I would like to know is why contentful is so expensive after free option? $480 monthly? And if I only need free version, is that mostly enough for a blog driven site?