How to create a client-serverless Jamstack app using Netlify, Gatsby and Fauna

The Jamstack is a modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup. The key aspects of a Jamstack application are the following:

The entire app runs on a CDN (or ADN). CDN stands for Content Delivery Network and an ADN is an Application Delivery Network. Everything lives in Git. Automated builds run with a workflow when developers push the code. There’s Automatic deployment of the prebuilt markup to the CDN/ADN. Reusable APIs make hasslefree integrations

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