SPAs, MPAs, The History of Twitter Tech, and A Failed Project
A good look back at the history of the SPA (i.e. single page application) and how Twitter played a big role in developing the concept. Looking forward, it also touches on the rise (again) of MPA (multi-page applications).

Salma Alam-Naylor

A Guide to Image Optimization on Jamstack Sites
Images are a major bottleneck to web performance everywhere, not just Jamstack sites. This post covers compression options, using an image server CDN and creating an image component in a headless CMS like Storyblok.

Alba Solvent

✨ A Raymond-oganza of Eleventy Posts

• Building a YouTube Embed Web Component (both vanilla and WebC flavored) – Comparing a vanilla web component versus a WebC component supported by Eleventy.
• Support External Articles in an Eleventy Blog – Creating a blog listing page where some posts are internal to the blog but some posts are actually external links.
• Some Options for Timing Pages in Eleventy – Some experiments with improving the build performance of slow pages with Eleventy
• A Bare-Bones Eleventy Template for Glitch – A simple template for using Eleventy on Glitch without the verbosity and blog setup of the existing one.

Raymond Camden

Use Defer-Hydration in Your Web Components for… Well, Deferred Hydration
Is-land, Eleventy’s islands and partial hydration plugin, now supports the defer-hydration attribute, a community standard indicating that the web component will handle lazy initialization.

Zach Leatherman

Survey Finds Majority of Jamstack Community Testing 'Edge'
A look at some of the highlights from the recent Jamstack Community Survey released at Jamstack Conf a couple weeks ago.

Loraine Lawson

Jamstack Conf 2022: Armistice Day for the Framework Wars
An overview of some of the panel highlights from Jamstack Conf including an extended discussion on how OSS is bringing about a new proliferation of web frameworks.

Kate Holterhoff