swyx is an Infinite Builder working on Developer Experience at Netlify. In his free time he helps people Learn in Public at Egghead.io and /r/reactjs.
A lot has happened in the five years since Val Karpov coined the MEAN stack to describe “Full Stack” Javascript stacks. React rose to dominance, AWS Lambda started the Serverless movement, and Static Site Generators came back in a big way. What is driving this new stack of Javascript, APIs, and Markup? This is the story of how a JAMstack cynic finally turned into a believer.