Company
Date Published
Author
Sophia Parafina
Word count
2990
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Jamstack architecture, which stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, offers a modern approach to building websites by deploying them on a CDN and storing content with cloud service providers. This approach provides advantages such as fast deployment of static content, content management with git, automated builds, atomic deploys, and instant cache validation. Despite the simplification of content creation through modern build tools, setting up the necessary infrastructure remains complex, often requiring the use of cloud provider interfaces, CLI tools, or infrastructure as code solutions like Pulumi. The article provides a detailed guide on creating and deploying a Jamstack website using Hugo as a static site generator, Docker for containerization, and AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, and Route 53 for hosting and distribution. Pulumi is utilized to automate the infrastructure setup with either TypeScript or Python, demonstrating how to configure and deploy cloud resources efficiently, while also highlighting the benefits of separating content generation from cloud infrastructure management.