How to Deploy Your Jamstack Site to Cloudflare Pages
This article describes how deploy your Jamstack site to Cloudflare Pages — a new service with a simple-to-use and generous free hosting plan.
The web world may be using WordPress, but developers are moving toward Jamstack technologies (also referred to as static sites). The name Jamstack (once written as JAMStack) stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, and was devised by Netlify. Like Ajax, the scope of the term has widened, but a Jamstack site typically uses pre-rendered static content with client-side logic connecting to a set of loosely coupled back-end APIs. The benefits are compelling:
Performance: Where possible, Jamstack sites generate pages once during a build process rather than on view. They’re fast and are often deployed to content delivery networks (CDNs) physically closer to the user.
Scalability: Jamstack sites are a collection of generated files which do not require server-side processing or database connectivity. Pages are effectively pre-cached and deployed globally.
