Learn what JAMstack is all about what those three big letters in the front mean and why its so beneficial.ampnbsp This book shows you how to create sites and apps on the JAMstack using GatsbyJS a tool made specifically for generating them.ampnbsp As part of that youll learn about React one of the hottest frontend development tools out there today. You will build three separate projects starting with a relatively simple site to get your feet wet then a more robust and dynamic application to see more advanced topics like API usage and data storage.ampnbsp Finally youll build a game on the JAMstack to get a whole different perspective on how all the pieces can fit together. JAMstack a modern take on best practices is taking the web development world by storm and allowing developers to create web site and apps that are blazingly fast and highly secure. In many ways JAMstack is a throwback to web development of yesteryear all while providing a simpler development experience that is streamlined by many years of best practices being brought to bear. What Youll Learn Review the principles of JAMstack Javascript APIs and MarkupUse React to build a frontendSet up a GitHub account and hosting using GitHub PagesHost in Netlify the creators of JAMstackUnderstand Netlify functions and FaunaDB for persistent data storageExplore GraphQL usage for querying dataWork with the Phaser game library Who This Book Is ForWeb developers with some HTML CSS and JavaScript experience who want to apply best practices to build web sites that have no backend server infrastructure while still providing dynamic content along with a streamlined development process. Architects who just want to learn JAMstack even if they arent going to be hacking code all day.