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  1. …in reply to @mjackson
    @mjackson The people who named JAM Stack have an intense aversion to the word "static". The M in JAM - the markup - is always generated with a static site generator. Leaving "static" out of the name is a mistake IMO, because it is critical to understanding the stack.
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      @mjackson Where the source of that static markup comes from, it depends. Sometimes it's markdown files stored in a repo; sometimes it's data pulled from an API or "headless CMS" service like contentful. Regardless, it's turned into html at "deploy time," and the site has no back-end.
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        @mjackson The J and A mean "you can augment any static site with JavaScript and APIs to make it more of an interactive experience." I'd rather see a name like "augmented static" or "interactive static," because I think there'd be way less explanation required.
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