Oct 26, 2019

Build Better Faster Websites: the New Dynamic Newsletter: 10/26 - Post JAMstack_conf Edition

By Bud Parr • Issue #116 • View online

I hope you can forgive me for not getting a newsletter out last week. I was still in San Francisco for the JAMstack Conference. By all accounts the conference was a success. For me, it’s more than just a conference. I see a lot of friends whom I’ve known from our small but growing community and get an opportunity to interact with people building products for developers; watching how they evolve, and getting excited about being a developer all over again.

I also enjoyed seeing friends like Andrew Sprouse with TakeShape, or Scott Gallant from Forestry launch new products, and being astounded by the new tools being created by Stackbit and others, and being humbled by how some great agencies are using the JAMstack at scale.

Régis Philibert and I gave a full-day on Hugo and I was happy to find that everyone attending brought not just a high level of competency, but curiosity and some real issues they were try to solve with this tool.

Events

Videos: JAMstack_conf_sf 2019

Playlist of all the videos

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New Tools, New Friends: Reflecting on JAMStackConf_SF 2019 | In Development

This past week, I had the joy of attending the JAMStackConf in San Francisco with 550 other excited and curious developers. For those not familiar, yet, with…

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Podcasts

There’s no server more secure than one that doesn’t exist - JS Party

with Phil Hawksworth at JAMStackConf

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Ep. #48, Dynamic Static Sites with Shalom Volchok of Digital Optimization Group - JAMstack Radio

In episode 48 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Shalom Volchok, CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Optimization Group. They discuss Shalom’s background in online herbal products, and reintroducing dynamic content into static sites.

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Embed Twitter Timeline in Eleventy

Retrieve your own tweets via API and display them dynamically in the Static Site Generator Eleventy.

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Articles

What exactly is JAMstack? - Dong Chen - Medium

When I first heard JAMstack, or “static app” over a year ago, I was confused. What does it mean to be “static”? Does it take “dynamic” server data and “dynamic” user input? I made my biggest courage…

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Eleventy

An introduction to Eleventy (11ty)

An introduction to Eleventy (11ty). Contribute to jeromecoupe/iad_eleventy_introduction development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Why I'm Digging Eleventy

DevRel at large, Star Wars nerd, Web/Serverless hacker, lover of good beer and good books. Oh, and cats.

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Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr

Using Lunr to add client-site search to your static site

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The journey to 90% Serverless @ Comic Relief – The Comic Relief Technology Blog

The 90% figure is plucked out of thin air, it’s just me trying to pick a really big number without accurately calculating a percentage. Now that Red Nose Day 2019 is over, I want to give you a bit of a run down on my learnings, the tooling that we used and the path taken, on what…

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Create A Bookmarking Application With FaunaDB, Netlify And 11ty — Smashing Magazine

In this article, we’ll create a personal bookmarking site using FaunaDB, Netlify Functions and 11ty data files.

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Gatsby Part 1: Gatsby, the JAMstack and Serverless Architecture

In this series I’ll be looking a bunch of different aspects of Gatsby, a Static Site Generator based on React.js and GraphQL. Quick disclaimer first of all. Throughout this series I’m going to say a…

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Creating and using your first Netlify Build Plugin | Netlify

Run your own code as part of the Netlify Build lifecycle with our new Build Plugins.

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How to add a Headless CMS to a Pelican static site | ButterCMS

Pelican static site generators powered by Python with ButterCMS - for non technical users to be able to create static websites without code

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A Different Case Study: Bejamas.io Under The Spotlight - Bejamas

The all-new fast-loading, easy-to-use, and fancy designed website built from scratch with Gatsby, Forestry and ZEIT Now was a tough cookie. And we love it even more for it.

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Making New Projects with Gatsby & Sanity - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Why Gatsby & Sanity?

As I’ve spent more time developing, one thing…

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Using Sanity.io with React Dashboard Auth Functions - CREATORS NEVER DIE

The Creators Never Die blog provides insight, tips & news for digital creators.

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Tools and Services

Snipcart

@snipcart

We’re VERY excited to roll out this new version of our shopping cart (v3.0)!✨

This tech-agnostic cart offers a modern, universal style while enabling next-level checkout customization.

It's still free to sign up, check it out! --> https://t.co/I7g1D5CuRa

#ecommerce #webdev https://t.co/QvXcHcRHqZ

9:40 AM - 22 Oct 2019

Lightning launch - TakeShape

Announcing Tina: an open-source site-editor | Forestry.io

Tina is an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based frameworks — Gatsby & Next.js. Build real-time editing into your site. /

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Stackbit Live | Stackbit

Build Modern JAMstack Websites in Minutes. Combine any Theme, Site Generator and CMS without complicated integrations.

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Creating and using your first Netlify Build Plugin | Netlify

Run your own code as part of the Netlify Build lifecycle with our new Build Plugins.

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Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million – TechCrunch

French startup Strapi has raised a $4 million seed round led by Accel and Stride.vc. The company has been working on an open-source Node.js headless content management system. That’s a lot of technical words in a row, but it’s not that hard to understand what Strapi is. Content management systems, or CMS, are web applications […]

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Announcing Ghost 3.0 – The story behind raising $5m

15,000 commits later - we just launched Ghost 3.0 and we’ve raised $5m in funding from the most forward thinking investors: our customers! Read our story.

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Sanity.io: Boost editor workflows with our new Initial Values

Give your editors a head start with Initial Values for Sanity Studio. Prefill fields with minimal configuration, create multiple templates for quick document creation, fetch content from external APIs and put it in new documents.

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