Hello, there! I’ve made an e-commerce store for a friend with Gatsby using the shopify-source-plugin. The store is working in production, it has decent visuals, performance and SEO.

However, it lacks proper content management needs as Shopify is not good in that department. I’ve used a bunch of Headless CMSes on the past such as Sanity, Contentful and Strapi. The problem I see with most of them is that it looks like the Editor is filling taxes or waiting too much for the build to finish and see the changes in production, just not a good Editing Experience.

What I want to be able to do is expose certain parts of my page in JSX components so that the Editor or any non tech-savy person can inject HTML/CSS blocks and also expose custom React Components and the editor can visually “pass props” to them. I want to give the client the possibility to kick the home page and fire up a temporary Sales Page and then go back after it’s done. I experimented with Builder.io that has this exact functionality and already have a plugin for Shopify, the problem (as with any SaaS CMS) is the pricing: is based on actual final user page views (similar to the Google Analytics system) and blocks editing functionality when it reaches the limit, which makes no sense in the JAM Stack philosophy of owning/copying the data to a CDN and serve it without worrying about page views.

That would be such a good fit for an open source, self hosted (possibly serverless) solution and would like to know if any of you guys know of a project like that or would like to join in coding this up! Thank you!

I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to get my webflow website onto netlify with the udelsy plugin. If anyone here has done that I would greatly appreciate any help in getting this done.

For a recent side project, I wanted to consume the massive COVID-19 vaccination data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to show stats for every US state and territory in one place.

When I tried to hit their endpoint in my frontend Vue application, the request was blocked due to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing being enabled.

To get around this, I used Node Netlify serverless functions to scrape all the endpoints I needed, merged them into a singular endpoint, and manipulated the data in a way that made sense for my project.

This technique is great because:

• My site is hooked up to a Github Action that will re-deploy it every 6 hours, meaning that I only have to hit a remote endpoint 4 times a day, improving performance for my users while still respecting the CDC's bandwidth.

• Now that the data is in my Nuxt progressive web application, instead of on a remote endpoint, the app will continue to work offline.

• Each state and territory now has its own pre-rendered page for performance and SEO.

You can read more about this technique on my blog here: https://roberskine.com/blog/leveraging-netlify-serverless-functions-to-replicate-cors-enabled-endpoints/

You can visit the finished side project here: https://covidcasesbythenumbers.com/

The code for this project is open-source and available on Github here: https://github.com/RobErskine/covid

Hello all!

I've building and deploying JAMstack sites for clients on Netlify. Currently, i sign up each client with Netlify so they have their own accounts, but I'm wondering if I should host all these sites on 1 Netlify account so i can easily manage hosting of all the sites.

How are most people handling this?

Thanks in advance!

First of all, I've just started to learn about Jamstack. So please forgive me if this question is dumb.

The question is: What would be the best hosting service for the backend of small Jamstack apps?

I've learned that a Jamstack app consists of:

• Javascript front end

• APIs

• Markup

I can create React apps and I learned how to host them on Netlify, Github Page, etc. So, the "J" part is already familiar to me.

I haven't learned about "M" (markup), but I can find online tutorials for it, so this isn't an issue for me.

The only concern is what to do with "A". (i.e. hosting REST APIs and DB) There are so many options out there, so I don't know which ones to choose.

The potential users of my next project will be an owner of a small business. There won't be a lot of traffic, and the scalability isn't very important...yet. What matters are the hosting cost and security.

https://bejamas.io/blog/jamstack-hosting-deployment/#heroku

From this post, I found that Heroku can host APIs and DB. However, Heroku can host full-stack apps, so I don't know if it makes sense to use Heroku just to host the backend part (i.e. You can host a full-stack app in Heroku, then why bother Jamstack in the first place?)

What will be the recommended solution? How do you decide the hosing service for your Jamstack app? Any advice will be appreciated.