JAMstack with J.A.M.

Practical Uses

The team discusses practical uses of Jamstack and how it is implemented in various scenarios. Alan Underwood questions the viability of Jamstack for applications requiring dynamic content and fine-grained permissions, like ecommerce sites with personalized pricing. Joe Zack explains that while Jamstack excels in static content delivery, it faces challenges similar to single-page applications (SPAs) when dealing with dynamic data and real-time interactions 1. He notes that Jamstack can still interact with APIs for dynamic content, but it may not be suitable for all use cases 2.

I think that there are still applications that are just better off being kind of traditional backend Django or Ruby on Rails type sites.

--- Joe Zack

   

Ecommerce

The conversation shifts to the applications of Jamstack in the ecommerce domain. Joe Zack highlights tools like Contentful that help manage dynamic content within a Jamstack framework. Alan Underwood explores Netlify's Go Commerce, which integrates static site generation with dynamic data fetching for ecommerce functionalities 3. They agree that while Jamstack is not ideal for massive ecommerce platforms like Amazon, it can be effective for smaller, boutique sites 4.

For a lot of smaller purposes, or if you got a boutique ecommerce site with 500 products, why not?

--- Joe Zack