Some tips and things to think about when choosing to run a virtual developer conference based upon my recent experiences.

Tips for Running Your First Virtual Conference

Let's explore the BFF pattern, how it applies to Jamstack applications and how to make it easier to implement.

Learn To Love Your Jamstack BFF

Exploring three popular GraphQL JavaScript client libraries that you can use to connect to a GraphQL API in the browser or in Node.js.

Exploring JavaScript Client Libraries for GraphQL

One of the more challenging aspects of Jamstack development can be that it requires you to change your mental model around when to render content in a web app.

Thinking in Jamstack

A look at the intertwined evolution of the Jamstack and GraphQL and how popular Jamstack tools are built upon a GraphQL foundation.

GraphQL and the Jamstack

What Jamstack means is evolving. While labels don't help you get your work done, they are also important.

What Is the Jamstack in 2021?

A GraphQL query is just a standard HTTP request, no special libraries needed. Let's look at how to create one in JavaScript and Node.js.

Consuming GraphQL in Plain JavaScript

GraphQL queries are what allow GraphQL to be efficient in how it gets data, by allowing you to express only what you need but also exactly everything you need. In this post, we'll see how.

How to Write GraphQL Queries

CFE.dev has live virtual meetups and hundreds of hours of free sessions for developers on a wide range of topics.

The Best Kept Secret for Free Developer Education

Next.js is an increasingly popular solution for creating Jamstack sites using JavaScript and React. In this post we explore how to build your first Jamstack site using Next.js that connects to a headless CMS for content using the Sourcebit open source project.

Getting Started with Next.js for Jamstack Development

There have been a lot of new innovations in the Jamstack ecosystem already in 2020. Let's look at some of the major highlights including new static site generators and new deployment tools.

4 New Tools to Watch in the Jamstack Ecosystem

Markdown is so ubiquitous in the Jamstack that many people confuse the M in the JAM acronym to mean Markdown rather than markup. But how did this happen and why does Markdown play such a big role in Jamstack development?

What is Markdown and Why Does it Matter to the Jamstack?

Hugo's Go-powered templates can accomplish some very powerful templating tasks. In this post, I share some tips and tricks that I've found useful when building advanced Hugo templates.

Advanced Hugo Template Tips and Tricks

Documentation sites are a longstanding and common use case for the JAMstack. In this post we explore some of the options available to you for developing them and show an example of how to build one.

Building Documentation Sites with the JAMstack

The static site generator (SSG) is a key ingredient in developing a JAMstack web app, but there are literally hundreds to choose from. I offer my advice and guidance on choosing the option that's best for you.

How to Choose Your Static Site Generator

Sourcebit is a fully-extensible open source project that can connect any data source with a JAMstack site. In this post, we'll learn how you can build a plugin to connect to a data source, target SSG or transform data.

Build Your First Sourcebit Plugin

A look at some of the options for building an ecommerce site using the JAMstack including a demo that shows how to easily build am ecommerce site using a headless CMS and Snipcart.

Getting Started with Ecommerce and the JAMstack

Tips and advice from 2.5 years of experiences running online meetups, workshops and events.

Tips for Running Virtual Meetups and Events

Sourcebit is a new open source project that aims to make it easy for developers to connect their JAMstack site to data coming from a broad range of sources. In this tutorial, we explore how to use it.

Data-driven JAMstack with Sourcebit

Correcting what seems to be a common misconceptions about what makes an app JAMstack

The J in JAMstack Does Not Stand for React (or Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.)

Migrating from Wordpress to JAMstack offers a number of potential benefits, but it can be difficult to know what the best strategy for transitioning content is. This post offers some potential strategies for making the move.

3 Strategies for Migrating from Wordpress to JAMstack

JAMstack has been accused of being just fancy buzzword branding, but is there actual substance behind the term? I share my thoughts on why I think there is.

Is JAMstack All Branding and Little Substance?

Sharing my learning process as a React and Next.js noob

Baby Steps with Next.js for JAMstack

See how to use Zapier webhook and Netlify Functions to dynamically update content on your site and rebuild it.

Build Your Own API with Netlify Functions and Zapier Webhooks, Part 2

Connecting your JAMstack site to a Zapier webhook using Netlify functions gives you access to all sorts of cool features.

Build Your Own JAMstack API with Netlify Functions and Zapier Webhooks, Part 1

Ahmad Awais of Cloudinary shares what changes we saw in the JAMstack ecosystem in 2019 and what he expects for 2020.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Ahmad Awais

What exciting new things happened in 2019 in JAMstack? What can you expect to see in 2020? Bud Parr, creator of The New Dynamic community and newsletter, shares his thoughts.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Bud Parr

A look at some of the results from the latest JavaScript developer survey and some items that stood out.

Thoughts on the State of JS Survey

Chris Coyier shares what she thought was important about this past year in JAMstack and what she thinks you can expect for the year to come.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Chris Coyier

Tara Manicsic shares what she thought was important about this past year in JAMstack and what she thinks you can expect for the year to come.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Tara Manicsic

Bryan Robinson shares what he thought was important about this past year in JAMstack and what he thinks you can expect for the year to come.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Bryan Robinson

Gift Egwenu shares what she thought was important about this past year in JAMstack and what she thinks you can expect for the year to come.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Gift Egwuenu

Raymond Camden shares what he thought was important about this past year in JAMstack and what he thinks you can expect for the year to come.

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020 - Raymond Camden

Leverage the power of the community by creating a JAMstack site that anyone can edit and contribute using NetlifyCMS's open authoring.

Creating a JAMstack Site with Open Authoring Using Netlify CMS

Whether you are getting started or already advanced, these are the links that you'll need as a JAMstack developer.

15 JAMstack Resources You Need as a Web Developer

A step-by-step guide to adding registration and login requirements to sections of content on a JAMstack site.

Gating Content in JAMstack Sites

A new tool let's you automatically detect and monitor your Netlify builds from your own site.

Easy Monitoring of Your Netlify Builds

Dev.to gives developers access to a wide audience while letting them keep ownership of their content. The integration with Stackbit makes this even easier.

Own Your Content, Broaden Your Audience

A look at the evolution of web content management from the early days of the web to the headless, cloud-based CMS systems of today.

The Evolution of Web Content Management

There is widespread belief that the tech interview process is broken but little in the way of movement to change it.

What's Wrong with the Tech Interview Process?

What makes a site JAMStack? A lot of it is in the M for markup.

Markdown is Markup and Other Confusions Around JAMStack

What happens when you authenticate in an application using OAuth 2.0 implicit and PKCE flows.

Understanding OAuth Authorization Flows

Developers are defining themselves into ever smaller niches and that concerns me.

Don't Let Your Tools Define You as a Developer

A guide to getting started with IndexedDB for storing large amounts of complex data offline.

Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 3

Some tips and advice based on my experiences running conferences for more than a decade.

So You Want to Run a Developer Conference

Understanding the history of the web will help guide you to the its future.

Knowing the Web's History is Critical to Its Present and Future

Advice and resources from the organizers of some major conferences on how to create a compelling conference talk proposal.

How to Write a Great Conference Talk Proposal from Conference Organizers

A summary of newsletter resources related to frontend development, JavaScript, CSS and more.

The Best Newsletters to Subscribe to for a Frontend Developer

Many factors can influence technical debt and many of them have nothing to do with code.

Technical Debt is Not Just Technical

Exploring what localStorage is, how it works and how it can be used to store and access data offline.

Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 2

How do you decide what's important to focus on? I share some of my own ideas and want to know yours.

Choosing What to Learn

A look at different options for determining the user's online/offline status and connection speed.

Getting Started with Offline Data in Web Apps Pt. 1

Constants in JavaScript don't necessarily behave the way you think they would.

Confused by JavaScript's const? Me too!

Finally taking advantage of some of the Netlify platform's more advanced features.

Using Netlify to the Fullest

A brief look at the ethical dilemmas facing today's developers.

Should I Build It?

Some tips based on my experience for finding your unique path in your career development as a developer. 

A Developer Career Doesn't Have to Be Linear

Some broad guidelines for writing technical or code-focused blog posts and articles.

3 Tips for Writing Great Tech Posts

A look at some simple but overlooked as well as some advanced techniques for the Hugo static site generator.

Quick Tips and Tricks for Hugo Development

A quick introduction to using the Stackbit service for creating a content-managed JAMStack site

Building and Deploying a JAMStack site with Stackbit

Configuring an existing JAMStack site to use Netlify CMS

A Fresh Look at Netlify CMS (Part 2)

A look at two libraries designed to help improve the perceived performance of web apps

Promoting Perceived Performance with Prefetching

An overview of the pros and cons of the different education options to become a developer

There's More Than One Way to Become a Developer

A quick look at some highlights from the latest edition of StackOverflow's survey

Some Things You May Have Missed in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey (2019 Edition)

Getting started with Netlify CMS on project using a fresh install.

A Fresh Look at Netlify CMS (Part 1)

Need some help with your session abstract for a conference call for papers? I'm here to assist.

Want to Speak at Conferences? I'll Help Review Your CFP Submissions

I will never play baseball. Sure, I played as a kid, briefly, and I was terrible. I have since tried...

Allies Don't Make Inclusion About Themselves

In 2018, we focused on performance, mobile and how tough it can be to be (or become) a dev.

14 of My Favorite Developer Blog Posts in 2018

Some holiday-themed links for developers.

Get Your Code Ready for the Holidays!

While working as a developer certainly has its rewards, there are some major issues we need to address.

Is Today the Best Time to be a Developer? No...but We're Getting Better.

Talking JavaScript language standards and TC39 with Jory Burson of Bocoup

JavaScript Standardization - An Interview with Jory Burson

While development is still complicated, some things have definitely improved.

4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard

Running developer events - even online only ones - can be tough but rewarding, exhausting but also thrilling.

What I Learned from a Year of Running Free Developer Events

We're clearly entering a new era for Microsoft and for developers that moves from tools and platforms to cloud and services.

What Developers Should Know from Microsoft Build

GitHub finally announces HTTPS support for sites hosted using their GitHub Pages service.

GitHub Pages Now Support HTTPS - Use It!

Some strategies for local testing with SSL

Running SSL on localhost

Some Things You May Have Missed in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey

A rant about defining titles with unachievable standards.

There's No Such Thing as a Full Stack Developer

Tips on for adhering to style guides by integrating Prettier with ESlint in VS Code.

Conforming to JavaScript Code Styles

More evidence that developers aren't noticing the licenses in the software they use.

A License to Confuse

A comprehensive list with descriptions of the sites and newsletters for developers that I follow.

What are the Must Follow Resources for Developers?

Tammy Everts talks about what performance metrics matter most to developers.

Why Web App Performance Matters and What to Watch Out For - An Interview with Tammy Everts

Aimee Knight shares some of what she's learned on her journey from ice skater to full stack developer

From Ice Skating to Bootcamp to Full Stack Dev - An Interview with Aimee Knight

Brian Leroux previews his upcoming presentation by discussing why he created arc.codes and why serverless matters.

From Cordova to Bots to Serverless - An Interview with Brian Leroux

Don't let the fact that a topic has already been written about dissuade you from adding your own voice.

That Topic Has Already Been Covered!

Ignoring software licenses can be dangerous. Let's try to understand them - open source, commercial and more.

Developers Need to Start Paying Attention to Licenses

As we conduct our post-mortems on Flash, it's important to remember that Flash helped make the web what it is today.

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