Mike Nolan

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. -Winston Churchill

Smashing Jamstack! - Day 18

29 Jan 2021

Finished on final tweaks and committed the quote gen to Github that I was working on yesterday. I also have been watching some videos and reading articles on the whole Jamstack processes again following on from Wednesday. I find it intruiging on how much can be achieved with having no “real” backend as such and having a fully blown website using HTML/CSS/JS incorporating API’s etc. I have been using Markdown for a bit now to publish these entries through Jekyll but Eleventy certainly intruiges me a bit more in wanting to bring the whole portfolio site under one umbrella - doing a whole new redesign using some sort of system like this and some Tailwind - making it pretty but functionable too. However that will be a whole new project down the line!

What have I completed today :white_check_mark:

  • Quote Generator - First Instance - uploaded to Github

What is next on the list :pencil2:

  • Finish FCC ES6

What have I been reading / watching? :books: :tv:

  • Smashing Magazine - their move to Jamstack and also how they went above improving massive performance issues on their site.
  • Eleventy static site generator and using Netlify in order to build straight from github to live website using their CDN.
  • https://jamstack.org/generators/
Mike