Cloudflare pages JAMstack demystified by our in-house engineers. Read on to find out to build and deploy JAMstack applications with Cloudflare pages.

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Let’s look at how our Support Team helped our customers learn more about Cloudflare pages JAMstack.

All About Cloudflare pages JAMstack

JAMstack helps developers to create and serve static websites to users faster as well as more efficiently. Furthermore, JAMstack web applications include a lot of pre-built HTML in a CDN. Rather than relying on a backend application of the server to handle dynamic content, the JAMstack application’s dynamic components rely on APIs.

JAM in JAMstack stands for Javascript, APIs, and Markup. Moreover, Stack refers to a combination of these three things in a manner that makes it easy for developers to build websites and applications.

In other words, a JAMstack application makes use of only Javascript, APIs, and Markup code in Cloudflare pages. Some of the benefits offered by JAMstack to frontend developers include:

• Collaborative friendly
• Fast performance
• Massively scalable
• Cost-effective
• Secure by design

How to Build & Deploy JAMstack applications with Cloudflare pages

1. To begin with, head to this link and then run the following command in the terminal:

   git clone https://github.com/Dalu46/Cloudflare-pages.git
2. Next, install dependencies with this command:

   npm install
3. After that, set up a Github repository to push the project into it.
4. Then, create a Cloudflare pages account and open the dashboard.
5. Next, click Create a project button and connect to the Github account from Step 3.
6. After that, choose All repository and then click Install and authorize.
7. At this point, we have to connect to our repo by selecting it and clicking Begin setup.
8. Now, we will see a configuration page where our project name is used to create a subdomain from the domain name. Alternatively, we can change the project name as well. The Production branch is set to main by default.
9. Then, under Build Settings we will select Create Reach app in this scenario. This sets the Build command and Build output directory as “npm run build” and “build” automatically.
10. Now, click Save and Deploy button.

After the above process, Cloudflare pages build our applications and publish them in around three minutes. A successful Cloudflare pages JAMstack deployment results in a URL for our React app. Once we click the URL, we will see our React app.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to building and deploying Cloudflare pages JAMstack.