The Jamstack architecture is rapidly gaining popularity with web developers everywhere. Jam stands for “JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.” Jamstack sites are static sites built with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS; they’re text files, so they can be served up fast without requiring the overhead of traditional compiled or interpreted architectures.
Tim Berners-Lee created the first static website in 1991— in fact, it was the first website ever built. In the decades after, developers have moved to using interpreted and compiled code for websites and applications, requiring complicated configuration and additional overhead.