In the process of building my application, I used Firebase Cloud Functions that are called by triggers in the Firebase Cloud Firestore. Basically, whenever a record is written to specific collections in my app’s Firestore, the Cloud Functions trigger Slack notifications.

In this post, I’m going to define what a JAM stack is and walk you through how I used it to build a learning app recently. I’m going to showcase a few key areas where the JAMstack greatly improves the development experience, and takes a lot of the work out of maintaining applications.