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title: "What is the JAMstack? | Netlify"
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last_updated: "2026-07-13T21:07:15.000Z"
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 [![screenshot](/v3/img/blog/jamstackorg.png) Read More About the JAMstack](https://www.jamstack.org)

If you are deploying to Netlify you are a JAMstack engineer. JAM (Javascript, APIs and Markup) is just a simple terminology around the new way of making web projects, where you don’t have to host your own backend that builds the site every time you serve it.

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