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Episode 67: JAMstacking with the Great Gatsby - Sam Julien

Episode Summary

Sam Julien stirs up some buzzword soup as he explains Gatsby to John, Dan, and Craig. What is Gatsby? Who's Gatsby for? And what are the hurdles to using Gatsby for someone new to Gatsby?

Episode Notes

Recording date: 2019-12-05

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Sam Julien @samjulien

Resources:

• Gatsby
• JAMstack
• GraphQL
• Llamas
• Hugo
• Jekyll
• Algolia
• Static sties revolution
• Deploy a Gatsby blog to Azure
• React Reach Router
• Ryan Florence
• Michael Jackson
• Gatsby Plugins
• Service Workers)
• Deploy a static site to Azure
• Emperor's New Groove
• Baby llamas eating
• WebPack
• Vue Press
• Securing Gatsby by Sam Julien of Auth0
• Up and Running with Gatsby Course
• Serverless
• Contentful
• Try Azure Functions for free
• Next.js for rendering things on the server
• VS Code Extension - Peacock Documentation
• Gatsby Advanced Starter kit
• Up and Running with Gatsby Intro
• Sam Julien on Egghead
• refactr.tech

Final Thoughts

• Dan’s flipboard
• Build Your Own React
• His Dark Materials

Timejumps

• 01:27 Guest intro
• 03:26 What's Gatsby?
• 06:53 What problem does this solve?
• 11:23 What benefits are there for the user?
• 17:17 What are the hurdles to using Gatsby?
• 23:39 Creating a course to learn Gatsby
• 26:18 What's deployment like with Gatsby?
• 30:39 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 31:39 What is Next?
• 36:59 What happens when you build Gatsby?
• 38:41 Who is Gatsby for?
• 42:11 Final thoughts