Re:List of Serverless Functions for JAMstack Apps
by nogabebop23 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:08PM
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>> Easier – No complicated deployments, better DX
I'm a big fan in many use-cases, but this one is overstated IMO. Yes, your "site" is essentially a bunch of static pages but in order to do all that fancy stuff that the JA-part is selling you now have a massive deployment challenge that's just as prone to the same problems as the distributed monolith.
The big win IMO is moving runtime concerns to build-time. There are a surprising number of scenarios where the backing data changes on predictable, not-that-frequent basis. For example, it is far easier to publish a product catalog based on some internal system via a static generator than some sort of real-time link.
There are lots of cool use-cases but JAM is not reshaping the web in any structural way, at least if you've been programming it for more than 5-10 years...
I'm a big fan in many use-cases, but this one is overstated IMO. Yes, your "site" is essentially a bunch of static pages but in order to do all that fancy stuff that the JA-part is selling you now have a massive deployment challenge that's just as prone to the same problems as the distributed monolith.
The big win IMO is moving runtime concerns to build-time. There are a surprising number of scenarios where the backing data changes on predictable, not-that-frequent basis. For example, it is far easier to publish a product catalog based on some internal system via a static generator than some sort of real-time link.
There are lots of cool use-cases but JAM is not reshaping the web in any structural way, at least if you've been programming it for more than 5-10 years...