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Ask HN: Building a site like Airbnb and Etsy with JAMStack?

by colesantiago·6y ago·3 comments·view on hn ↗

Been reading lots of articles around JAMStack[0] (JavaScript, API's and Markup) and I'm pretty excited about it.

I am thinking about building an Airbnb or Etsy like site with JAMStack and planning to host this on Netlify but unsure about how to go about doing the API part of JAMStack.

Is there any pointers on this or I going about this the wrong way?

[0] https://jamstack.org/

3 comments

You have to bring your own, Firebase, hasura, and Prisma are good options for building out something quick. Netlify does not host backends, iirc, so you will have to do something there. The above 3 all have hosting options, the first is only hosted, the other 2 are open source. Prisma 2 was just released.

You will still need to implement much of the logic.

Just note that if you're making something that needs to rebuild, such as a blog, it will take time for new pages to build into static sites. You can get around this by making template files into which the API will dump data.

I would advise you check out Gatsby for JAMStack, they seem to be the best for this stack currently.

Sounds like a job for firebase. That should provide the apis you need off the shelf. Or write your own api in nodejs