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Jamstack vs. Wordpress

The difference between Jamstack and WordPress and why is WordPress a relic of old times. These days developers would recommend fellow colleagues to use a static site generator for better website speed, functionality, and flexibility. Let’s see why.

What is a Jamstack site and what are the benefits from it?

Jamstack is all about fast and secure sites and apps delivered by pre-rendering files and serving them directly from a CDN with removing the requirement to manage or run web servers. This effectively eliminates issues from the server-side. The less you worry about a web server, the more you can focus on other important parts of your business. The Jamstack is not about specific web technologies. It’s a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and better developer experience. Jamstack or pre-rendered sites can be enhanced with client-side JavaScript and the growing capabilities of web browsers and services available via APIs.

JavaScript

A web-based language used to develop simple to complex websites and web apps for online usage.

APIs

External services that provide information or some sort of extra functionality to the application.

Markdown

A simple format for constructing well - structured text documents with a basic level of typography formatting and media inclusion.

Besides being the “new shiny thing” in web development, there are other reasons why Jamstack has become an increasingly popular approach. It solves many vulnerable issues for website owners and developers alike, such as being faster, cheaper, easier to scale, and more secure.

Jamstack is an architecture specifically designed to fix the problems experienced with WordPress

A simple approach to content management
All managed with Git, the code versioning system.

Wordpress

  • Has been around for a very long time.
  • It provides comment management out of the box.
  • Theme support
  • A powerful plug - in system

Jamstack

  • Content is provided to users as a static website
  • It’s very fast, only relying on the download speed of the server and the users’ internet connection
  • Tons of online services providing a free or very cheap solution to hosting
  • Content is stored as Markdown, easy to use, and limited enough to ensure the focus is around the content
  • GitHub, a service thousands of companies trust with their source code
 

Wordpress

  • Has been around for a very long time.
  • It provides comment management out of the box.
  • Theme support
  • A powerful plug - in system

Jamstack

  • Content is provided to users as a static website
  • It’s very fast, only relying on the download speed of the server and the users’ internet connection
  • Tons of online services providing a free or very cheap solution to hosting
  • Content is stored as Markdown, easy to use, and limited enough to ensure the focus is around the content
  • GitHub, a service thousands of companies trust with their source code

WordPress is a very popular and famous solution when it comes to building a customized and powerful blog, with WordPress you can easily login anytime you like, manage users and even build complex articles using your own custom theme. But WordPress is still a server that needs to be maintained, and WordPress maintenance can be time consuming and expensive depending on the traffic you are getting from your content.

The benefits of a Jamstack site over WordPress

There are other reasons why Jamstack has become an increasingly popular approach. It solves many vulnerable issues for website owners and developers.

Speed

Jamstack sites load fast. Also, routing libraries can be harnessed that make internal links appear instantaneously. It’s an incredibly satisfying user experience.

Cost

Hosting static files is cheap, and is often free for smaller sites. With a traditional site, spikes in traffic can be problematic because they can slow down the server.

Security

Jamstack sites send out pre-built pages and don’t have dynamic interactions with a server, they are far less prone to attacks. You don’t have to worry about vulnerabilities.

Jamstack sites are a fun part of the JavaScript ecosystem. If you have technical members on your team who are handy with JavaScript, or the budget to hire them, it’s one way to have a blazingly fast, unique site for your brand. In this dynamic and rapidly changing web development environment, it is hard to keep up with all the changes, especially when you do not have an internal team that can support your web and digital marketing efforts. It is vital to have access to a pool of competencies and people who can design and develop your website or web application and give it the right look and feel that will attract potential customers.

We have been developing and deploying Jamstack
websites for over three years now. When it comes to
the WordPress vs Jamstack dilemma,
we are definitely in for the Jamstack.

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