I stumbled upon this one day...

And this sparked the rest of it...

Our Current Tech Stack

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

So what is Netlify?

“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.”

Source

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.

Source

Netlify provides

continuous deployment

for our

Static Site & reusable API’s

from one repo.

Wait I thought the site was written in React?

So how do we serve a static site to Netlify?

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

What does this look like?

Now let's try it ourselves...

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