Why your next website should be JamStack?

It’s donesn’t matter if you don’t know about JamStack if you are not a it practitioners.

But JAMStack is now the most talked about way to build a modern website by developers.

JAMStack.org has a very well explanation about it.

Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Jamstack removes the need for business logic to dictate the web experience.

It enables a composable architecture for the web where custom logic and 3rd party services are consumed through APIs.

https://jamstack.org/

However, it may be too abstract for you. I want to use this article with some real-world examples to explain how JAMStack will help your business and then you will know why your next website should be built with JAMStack.

JAM is an acronym for JavaScript, APIs, Markup

The differences

To go further, we have to talk about how the website works. We are lucky, It’s not hard to understand.

For an old-school website, It takes 5 parts before the content is shown on the user’s screen:

1. the user sends a request to the URI
2. the server process the user's request
3. the server generates the content
4. the internet transfer the response to the user's device
5. the user device generates a web page

For a JAMStack site it works quite differently:

1. the user sends a request to the URI
2. the server sends the assembled resources
3. the internet transfer the response to the user's device
4. the user device generates a web page    

So you will see the differences now, but what benefit do you get?

Performance

A JAMStack site’s resources are already assembled, mostly HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, etc.

The server doesn’t need to do any computing before sending the resources to the user’s device. actually, for most of the JAMStack site, you don’t need a server, the generated site could be deployed on the edge of the internet, e.g. a CDN service. so no matter where your customers are from, they could open your website fast all.

In the meantime, the JAMStack site can handle more influx of visitors before the server stops responding which means your website is more scalable.

Google loves JAMStack

A lot of companies rewrite their website for better SEO. It is just because Google loves JAMStack because of its high performance and fast page load speed.

Cost-effective

As we mentioned above, you don’t need a server to deploy your JAMStack site, even if you want to run your owned server the cost will be much lower than an old-school website, since it doesn’t need a lot of computing.

Greater security

JAMStack sites do not have a traditional database or application runtime, they are less prone to hacker attacks. So you could have better sleep now.

Easy to maintain

JAMStack site actually split the business logic and the UI, so it will be easier to maintain for the developers and means you can pay for fewer hours.

Good, Should we start now?

Yes, All sites could be build in the JAMStack way, however, some of the kind project can get extra benefits from the JAMStack.

They are:

• Landing Pages
• Business websites
• Heavey media websites (images and videos)
• CMS websites

Conclusion

The technology industry is going fast in those years, always some new technology to replace some old one.

But for JAMStack you don’t need to worry about that, actually, from the day of the internet’s birth, it is only used for delivering information and the most basic way is HTML, JAMStack just brings the pure internet back.

So if you want a new website think about JAMStack way first.