{"id":36305,"date":"2022-09-29T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inovex.de\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:30:28","slug":"state-of-the-jamstack-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inovex.de\/de\/blog\/state-of-the-jamstack-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Jamstack 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article gives an overview of the current state of the Jamstack web architecture in 2022 and an explanation of selected technologies and techniques related to the concept.<\/p>\n

The Jamstack is a web architecture or architectural concept designed to make web applications faster, and easier to develop and scale. As explained by Julia Wayrauther in the State of the Web from 2019<\/a>,\u00a0 the core principles of the Jamstack are pre-rendering of web pages at build time and decoupling of system elements, such as Frontend and Backend. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are used to host the Frontend separately at the edge, while APIs such as Headless Content Management Systems (CMS) are preferred as the Backend for a better Separation of Concerns.<\/p>\n

More than two years have passed since our last article about the Jamstack. Since then, the Jamstack’s popularity has stagnated and is no longer rising as steeply as the old numbers suggested.<\/p>\n

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Google Trends graph showing the global search frequency for the term \u201cJamstack\u201c over the last years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a good reason for this \u2013 or at least I suspect there is \u2013 which I will talk about at the end.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the Jamstack ecosystem has progressed in many regards and several exciting innovations have been introduced since 2019, which we will take a look at in the following.<\/p>\n

First, a selection of the latest build time optimization strategies to bring fresh content to live as fast as possible will be explained, such as Next.js<\/a>\u2019s Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) and Netlify\u2019s Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR). Second, we will look at the newest advances in edge computing using the example of stateless and stateful edge functions. This article concludes, as promised, with an outlook on the future of the Jamstack.<\/p>\n

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