The Seven Things I Wish I Knew About Jamstack One Year Ago with Mike Chirokas
Channel: Jantcu
Date: 27/10/2022

This talk is from the Thursday, October 27th, 2022 Jamstack Boston meetup: https://www.meetup.com/jamstack-boston/events/288922207/

The featured presentation is "The Seven Things I Wish I Knew About Jamstack One Year Ago" by Mike Chirokas:

What Jamstack is (I was doing it and didn't know it - btw lots of new folks are using it and don't know it's called Jamstack)

Jamstack vs. non-Jamstack frameworks and why I should've used a Jamstack-friendly framework from the start (I switched from vanilla React to Next.js for SEO)

Where stuff gets pulled in and what should go where (build time, server-side rendering, on-demand builders, ISR, runtime, edge, oh my!)

Site speed matters and a few optimizations can make a big difference - how to find and fix them in less than an hour

How to use Build Hooks to update my website from Contentful instead of making a minor change

Component libraries (TailwindCSS)

How to work with analytics tags and auth in Next.js

Mike is currently a Product Marketing Manager at Netlify, a web development platform for Jamstack sites, stores, and web apps. Previously, he spent a couple of years founding and coding two SaaS businesses. One was an iOS app focused on helping people save for travel (think: 401k for travel goals), and the other was a web app called the User Interview Exchange where founders, product managers, and UX researchers exchange user interviews for free.

Stay in touch with Mike:

https://twitter.com/mchirokas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchirokas/