https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/ Recent Jamstacked newsletters about full stack web development Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/110/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/110/ This wasn’t the intro I planned to write. Last Sunday morning, I ended up in the hospital. I finally made it home Thursday afternoon. Don’t worry – I’m recovering. But in that time I was gone, I had to cancel a virtual meetup and an interview show I co-host, postpone this newsletter and find coverage for the in-person meetup I run, to name just a few things. These are just things outside my regular, full-time job. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/109/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/109/ This newsletter started back in March of 2020, which, in “tech years”, seems like a lifetime ago. A lot has changed since then. Looking ahead, I’d love to know more about how I can make this newsletter better for you and hopefully broaden its reach. That’s why I am, for the first time, asking for some feedback from you via this Google form. It should just take a few minutes. You can also, as always, email me back directly as well if you have any feedback you’d like to offer directly. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/108/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/108/ Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but front-end development is getting unnecessarily complicated. I think many of us agree on this much. The question is, how do we undo what we’ve done? Is there a path back from the complexity? It’s not an easy question to answer. This is not just because we have existing projects built upon complex tooling that isn’t easy to unwind. It’s also because there are compromises we’d have to accept. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/107/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/107/ It’s the summer (at least here in the Northern hemisphere), which often leads to slow(er) news days. That’s ok after the madness that was May and it gives us the opportunity to catch our breath and explore some of the new releases from Astro, Docusaurus, UIX and TanStack Start or give htmx a shot. Read on for details. – Brian What’s Good htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/106/ Thu, 30 May 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/106/ If you’re a sports fan, you may be familiar with “March Madness”, where the NCAA basketball tournament means that there are so many games going on that it can be hard just to keep up. Well, as we reach the end of the month, I feel like it’s been “May Madness” when it comes to full-stack and Jamstack application development. There have been so many new releases, major announcements and other news this past month that it’s been tough to keep up. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/105/ Thu, 16 May 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/105/ Serverless and cloud computing play a huge role in modern full-stack web development. Things like lambdas and edge compute are what turn frameworks from just frontend JavaScript libraries into full-stack development frameworks. And, as AI is playing an increasing role in application development, serverless compute is how most applications will interact with generative AI. This is why I am super excited to be organizing next week’s Moar Serverless!! conference on May 23. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/104/ Thu, 02 May 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/104/ While frequently derided, buzzwords (aka jargon) actually play an important role in tech. For instance, you likely found this newsletter because of a buzzword (i.e. Jamstack) and understood the range of topics it would cover without my needing to go into detail. Still, we use a lot of jargon and often overlook the importance of explaining them. This isn’t just important for new developers. I brought this up in a recent issue and decided to write a blog post where I do my best to explain a ton of them. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/103/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/103/ You can be forgiven if you were unable to keep up with the long list of releases from Cloudflare’s latest Developer Week. Cloudflare loves there various weeks, which usually bring a massive list of new products, new features and other announcements. I did my best to cover all the news you need to know as a web and full-stack developer. – Brian What’s Good Cloudflare’s Developer Week Here’s what you need to know. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/102/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/102/ This week I am working on a presentation that I am giving later this month on explaining front-end buzzwords. It started out trying to lay out the differences between Jamstack and composable but then quickly had to dive into a laundry list of other buzzwords used to explain these: headless, pre-rendering, SSG/SSR/CSR/ISR, edge, middleware, islands, etc. Suffice it to say, we love our jargon and we also love to hate on our jargon (or another favorite pastime, declaring [buzzword] dead). https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/101/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/101/ Fred K. Schott announced the Astro Technology Company, along with a $7m round of seed funding, a little more than a year ago. Astro had made great strides in the framework and in adoption during that year, but, beyond sponsorship, there were no outward signs of a monetization strategy until last week when they announced their first paid service, Astro DB. So far, it’s a different approach than Gatsby took many years ago with Gatsby Cloud, a product that ultimately put them in direct competition with platform companies like Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare and others (a strategy Juan Diego Rodríguez claims doomed it). https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/100/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/100/ Milestones can feel arbitrary, but saying something is arbitrary doesn’t make it not simultaneously meaningful. 100 issues and 4 years of this newsletter is definitely meaningful to me. I will admit that, at times over those 4 yers when I am feeling stressed and overburdened, I’d thought of walking away from this task as it consumes a lot of effort and time. But I enjoy the opportunity to learn from all the people whose articles are featured and the opportunity to connect with you all to share some of my excitement about building for the web. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/99/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/99/ The last issue was all about hoping for a return to simplicity, and this week leads with a similar argument. It feels as though many developers are taking stock of where we stand in the current state of web development and lamenting how we allowed things to get so complicated. The important question is, does this added complexity of creating the site result in a better experience for the site’s users? https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/98/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/98/ There seems to be a growing desire to find ways to reduce the growing complexity of web development, but simplicity, it turns out, is a complex problem. What defines simplicity? Early Jamstack, as Matt Biilmann points out in his talk, definitely embodied it. By solving the build and deployment complexity, creating early Jamstack sites became simple, but, by and large, the nature of the sites we built weren’t complex. Can we build more complex sites without making them increasingly complicated to develop? https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/97/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/97/ Welcome to the first edition of Jamstacked hosted on CFE.dev. The content is the same but the from email and the format have changed. I am always happy to have feedback. This edition is going out a couple days early because I’ll be busy hosting the free TheJam.dev virtual conference on Wednesday and Thursday. It’s going to be a great event, so hopefully I’ll see you there! P.S. The change in publisher did essentially reset sponsorships for this newsletter. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/96/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/96/ Your Jamstack update #96 January 11, 2024 web version New years often bring big changes. This newsletter isn't immune, but, as is usually the case with any change, there is both bad and good. This newsletter was first published by Cooperpress nearly three years ago in March of 2020. I approached them with the idea because the Jamstack community had grown so much that I saw a need. Plus, it was an opportunity to explore and share about some of my favorite tools and technologies. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/95/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:23:09 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/95/ Your Jamstack update #​95 — December 14, 2023 ✦ web version Netlify just released their State of Web Development survey results, which surveyed almost 7,000 people, with about 80% of them being developers. A lot of the focus of the survey is on composable architectures, which fits with Netlify's recent push in this area, but there's a lot of interesting information in there around the impact of AI/ML and the tool choices of developers. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/94/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:48:31 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/94/ Your Jamstack update #​94 — November 30, 2023 ✦ web version Does the Jamstack term still have value? Can the community around it be revived by refocusing the term on some of its original and unique core values? Zach Leatherman, creator of Eleventy, believes so and it is putting this belief into action via his blog post and The Future of Jamstack web site. I am interested to see where this leads. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/93/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:06:05 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/93/ Your Jamstack update #​93 — November 16, 2023 ✦ web version The pace of releases this Fall has been intense, and doesn't yet show signs up abating. We've had new releases of Next.js, Remix, Astro and more with a ton of new APIs and features built in. We've had major platform updates from Netlify, Vercel and Cloudflare, to name a few. It's been work enough just to keep up that you'd be forgiven if you haven't gotten to try many of these things yet – I know I haven't, but I am looking forward to doing so. https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/92/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:12:22 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/92/ Your Jamstack update #​92 — November 2, 2023 ✦ web version October finished in a flurry with major release announcements from Netlify and Vercel at their respective events (Compose and Next.js Conference). Honestly, there was so much stuff to cover that I, unfortunately, had to make some tough decisions on what to include in this issue, so let's get right to it. — Brian Rinaldi ↘︎ What's Good Introducing the Netlify Composable Web Platform https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/91/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:36:19 +0000 https://cfe.dev/jamstacked/91/ Your Jamstack update #​91 — October 19, 2023 ✦ web version As I write this, Netlify's Compose conference (which replaced Jamstack Conf) is just kicking off. As readers of this newsletter are probably well aware, there have been some significant shifts in direction at Netlify. There have already been a number of announcements leading up to the event, but it'll be interesting to get the bigger picture on where Netlify sees the industry headed.