And this sparked the rest of it...

React Front End

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NodeJS Back End

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CMS by NetlifyCMS

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JAM Stack by Gatsby

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Continuous Deployment by Netlify

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The Hometap.com special

“Netlify wants to revolutionize the way developers build websites, abstracting away the web server and breaking web sites into microservices, making the process more like building a mobile application than a traditional website.”

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How does Netlify do it?

Netlify pioneered the JAM Stack.

What is the JAMstack?

JAMstack: noun \‘jam-stak’\
Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup.

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Netlify provides

continuous deployment

for our

Static Site & reusable API’s

from one repo.

We use GatsbyJS to build a static site
which Netlify serves via their CDN.

What does this look like?

What we will need:

• brew
• node
• yarn

// Install Homebrew
> /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

// Install Yarn & Node
> brew install yarn
> brew install node

// Clone our Repo
> git clone https://github.com/trebde/hometap.com-gatsby-appfairy.git

// Install Dependencies
> yarn

// Run hometap.com
> npm run build-lambda
> npm run all