Static APIs
The unsung heroes

Luciano Mammino (@loige)

2025-01-24

Static APIs The unsung heroes Luciano Mammino ( @loige ) loige.link/static-a​ 2025-01-24

Static APIs, the Unsung Heroes - Coderful Backend 2025

By Luciano Mammino

Static APIs, the Unsung Heroes - Coderful Backend 2025

Are you familiar with static websites, often referred to as the "Jamstack"? The concept is straightforward: generate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, images, and other assets at build time and publish them on a CDN. The result? Incredibly fast websites with no servers to manage and extremely low costs! Now, imagine being able to apply the same approach to your APIs, using only pre-generated JSON files hosted on platforms like GitHub Pages or Netlify. No servers, no databases: just instant responses accelerated by a global CDN. And the best part is that even for features like full-text search, there are entirely client-side static solutions available, making them virtually free! In this talk, we will delve into how static APIs work, exploring their advantages, limitations, and practical use cases. I will show you concrete examples and provide reusable templates to immediately put these techniques into practice.

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